Principal Technical Program Manager

CMT is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Principal Technical Program Manager to independently lead broad cross-organization efforts from the early stages through release. You will be responsible for coordinating the release activity and assembly for all CMT product lines. Our products are central to our mission, supporting safer drivers and safer roads by integrating seamlessly with a wide range of applications and services. Your leadership will ensure the timely and efficient delivery of our technology to partners and customers, impacting and enhancing safety on a global scale.  You will be responsible for influencing organization roadmap priorities, system owners, team composition, and technical direction. You will represent difficult trade-off decisions and debates clearly to senior leaders to help them understand options. You will be able to identify when a solution requires additional technical guidance or unlocks powerful capabilities. You will manage cross-functional and cross-organization communication to ensure all stakeholders are informed, and needs are aligned. You will guide the technical direction to deliver solutions that meet CMT’s high standards for customer satisfaction, efficiency, stability, extensibility, simplicity, and operational excellence.  CMT is looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager I to help us change the world. CMT has helped protect over 65 million drivers and prevent over 126,000 crashes worldwide. We build AI to solve some of the most difficult challenges in mobility — understanding and reducing risk, detecting crashes, and getting people life-saving help. The problems are hard. The impact is real. No matter your role, your work will matter at CMT.  Responsibilities:   Use independent judgment and discretion to manage programs across cross functional teams, build processes and coordinate release schedules  Strategically lead the planning, scheduling, and execution of project timelines and milestones for CMT product releases, ensuring alignment with company-wide strategic objectives  Champion cross-functional collaboration among senior leaders within software engineering, product management, and customer success teams to ensure seamless and efficient release processes at a strategic level  Architect and advocate for advanced release management procedures and best practices to enhance efficiency, quality, and scalability of releases across the organization  Provide executive-level coordination with internal and external stakeholders to synchronize product release plans with overarching product roadmaps and strategic goals  Oversee risk management strategies and resolution processes that affect release scope, schedule, and quality, ensuring robust contingency planning  Serve as a primary communication liaison with senior management, external partners, and stakeholders, offering high-level updates, strategic insights, and solutions related to product releases Lead compliance and security strategy throughout the release process, ensuring adherence to legal, regulatory, and security requirements at an organizational level  Spearhead initiatives to continuously assess, innovate, and enhance the release process, supporting the rapid and safe deployment of new features and updates, while fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement  Complete any additional tasks as they arise  Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience and/or certification in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field 7+ years of technical product or program management experience, and experience working directly with engineering teams 7+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience Expertise in software development lifecycles, agile methodologies, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes at a strategic level  Exceptional leadership qualities, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and guide senior teams towards achieving strategic objectives Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, leading cross-functional senior teams and navigating complex organizational structures Advanced experience with mobile technologies and platforms, with a strong understanding of the technical and market dynamics of the mobile ecosystem Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, coupled with an intense focus on quality and detail Proven capability to communicate complex technical and strategic concepts to a range of audiences, including executive leadership Nice to Haves:   Master's degree in a technical field 5+ years of software development experience  Experience translating customer requirements or contractual commitments into coordinated engineering, product, and delivery plans, then driving the program through delivery Experience driving programs that span machine learning, software engineering, product, and customer-facing teams, including ML model readiness, data dependencies, experimentation, and operational rollout Experience building program governance that scales: intake, prioritization, dependency management, and executive risk reporting Writing that carries a decision on its own, including executive updates, customer review material, and written recommendations that hold up under scrutiny Demonstrated success leading distributed teams across time zones and organizational boundaries  Fluent use of AI tools to compress program work such as status synthesis, requirements analysis, and documentation, with the judgment to know which output needs verification before it reaches a customer or an executive Compensation and Benefits:   Fair and competitive salary based on skills and experience, and annual performance bonus  Equity may be awarded in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)  Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, matching 401k, short-term & lon