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Technical Program Manager (TPM) - Defense

Palantir· Product Development
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Hybrid (Washington, D.C.)$93k - $160kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Palantir's defense product vertical builds mission-critical software for the modern warfighter, providing an ecosystem to securely integrate and visualize data and build programs such as common operating pictures and resource allocation tools powered by ML models. The TPM leads engineering teams, optimizing development processes, tracking projects, removing roadblocks, and aligning stakeholders to ship high-quality products.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Palantir software engineers, product managers, quality engineers, and designers to drive key product deliverables through the entire software development cycle.
  • Synthesize concrete technical goals from product vision, mapping global product strategy to granular team tasks and issues. This means triaging requests from the field to create maximum focus for the team, while escalating items that need immediate attention.
  • Keep broad and complete state of everything involving or related to your projects. Pre-empt and resolve any issues that may steer projects off-course.
  • Enhance cross-team collaboration. Read a room of technical experts to align them around shared objectives. Improve efficiency where you see miscommunication or lack of coordination.
  • Work with customer-facing engineering teams on adoption, roll out, and support of your product.

Qualifications

  • Relevant technical degree or experience in a software-related field (Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, etc).
  • 2+ years of project/program management experience, preferably in a fast-paced or dynamic environment.

Skills

Required:Project managementTechnical aptitude

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents
  • Basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
  • Commuter benefits
  • Relocation assistance
  • Paid time off (flexible, non accrual based) and 2 weeks year-end PTO
  • 10 paid holidays per year
  • Leave of absence program for military service and medical events
  • Paid parental leave and subsidized back-up care
  • Fertility and family-building benefits (adoption, surrogacy, preservation)
  • Child-related expense stipend
  • 401k plan participation
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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