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Program Manager, Flagship Programs

FieldAI· Delivery – Management
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Irvine, CA, Peoria, IllinoisFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Program Manager to lead large, complex technology programs for Field AI’s most strategic enterprise industrial customers, serving as the primary bridge between customer executives and Field AI’s Product, Solutions, Engineering, and Delivery teams to achieve technical, operational, and business objectives.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the planning and execution of large, complex customer programs from initial scoping through development, deployment, and operational handoff.
  • Serve as the primary program-level interface between executive customer stakeholders and Field AI’s Product, Solutions, Engineering, and Delivery organizations.
  • Translate customer business objectives into clear program requirements, priorities, milestones, and success criteria.
  • Develop and maintain integrated program plans covering scope, schedules, budgets, resources, dependencies, risks, and deliverables.
  • Indirectly lead and coordinate a team of Technical Project Managers, ensuring alignment with overall program objectives.
  • Establish effective program governance, including executive steering meetings, operating reviews, status reporting, decision-making processes, and escalation paths.
  • Communicate program progress, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions to executive and technical audiences.
  • Identify and resolve execution challenges, dependencies, resource constraints, and scope changes.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to align customer commitments with product roadmaps, feasibility, and capacity.
  • Manage customer expectations while maintaining professionalism and strong relationships.
  • Monitor program financial performance and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery per contractual commitments.
  • Drive accountability across internal and external teams without relying solely on direct reporting.
  • Capture lessons learned and improve enterprise program-management practices, tools, and processes.
  • Support expansion of successful programs from initial deployments to broader enterprise-scale adoption.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of project or program management experience, including responsibility for large, complex, customer-facing technology programs.
  • Successful track record delivering projects on time and within budget with multiple teams and dependencies.
  • Experience at a technology company, preferably in enterprise software, robotics, AI, industrial tech, automation, or similar complex environment.
  • Proven ability to engage and influence executive-level customer stakeholders.
  • Experience coordinating technical delivery teams and leading project managers or cross-functional workstream owners.
  • Strong understanding of product development and technology-delivery lifecycles.
  • Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills; ability to communicate complex information clearly.
  • Strong financial and commercial judgment, including managing budgets, scope changes, and contractual deliverables.
  • Excellent organizational skills with ability to bring structure and accountability to ambiguous situations.
  • Professional presence, sound judgment, and customer-oriented mindset.
  • Ability to influence and drive results across teams without direct authority.
  • Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Skills

Required:Program managementExecutive stakeholder managementTechnical project coordinationFinancial management
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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