Technical Program Manager

Overview

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have.

The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.

Empower.ai.

Empower AI is proud to be recognized as a 2024 Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory, the publisher of G.I. Jobs. This designation reflects the company’s commitment to hiring and supporting active-duty and veteran employees.

We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to own requirements, planning, sequencing, and execution reporting across the CTO organization’s technical portfolio. This is a hybrid work position with our office located in Reston, VA. This individual will partner with engineering, solution integration, delivery, and growth teams to bring a single operating rhythm to a multi-team roadmap spanning AI teammate deployments, reusable skills, and platform investment.

The Technical Program Manager will be instrumental in converting technical ambition into committed dates, visible dependencies, and executive-ready reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Own intake, prioritization, and sequencing of technical work across the engineering and solutions and delivery groups.
• Build and maintain the technical roadmap, including milestones, dependencies, owners, and committed dates.
• Manage the agentic workforce deployment schedule across internal teams and customer programs.
• Track cross-team dependencies, risks, and blockers; drive them to resolution and elevate when they stall.
• Run the recurring design review, sprint, and demonstration cadence.
• Maintain a single consolidated portfolio view across all active technical efforts.

Delivery Governance:

• Establish intake and change control so new work is prioritized rather than absorbed.
• Define and track delivery metrics including cycle time, throughput, and schedule variance.
• Coordinate with program managers to align internal technical milestones with customer commitments.
• Partner with the Principal Engineer to keep technical direction and delivery schedule in step.
• Identify capacity constraints early and recommend resequencing or staffing adjustments.

Reporting & Communication:

• Produce executive reporting for monthly business reviews, board materials, and CTO briefings.
• Translate engineering status into business language for non-technical executives.
• Maintain risk and issue registers with named owners and mitigation plans.
• Support technical SMEs on proposals with schedule, staffing, and transition inputs.
• Serve as the single point of truth on what is in flight, what is committed, and what is at risk.

Requirements:

• 5+ years in technical program or project management within software, cloud, or AI delivery environments.
• Demonstrated ownership of a multi-team roadmap, not single-project coordination.
• US Citizenship
• Experience in a federal contracting environment, including work spanning contract-funded and overhead-funded efforts.
• Strong agile delivery fluency (Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe) and the ability to hold a credible schedule conversation with senior engineers.
• Executive-level written and verbal communication, including experience producing material for C-suite or board audiences.
• Proficiency with work management tooling such as Jira, Azure Dev Ops, or Service Now.

Preferred:

• Active DoD, DHS, or…