Technical Program Manager
Job Summary
Job Description
- Guide teams to agile maturity and manage high-impact XR delivery programs.
- Partner with leadership to align priorities and dependencies.
- Balance squad health, program deadlines, scope trade-offs, and technical complexity.
- Coach teams to adopt sustainable, outcome-oriented agile practices.
- Facilitate agile ceremonies for multiple squads, managing program-level goals.
- Define and maintain delivery plans, ensuring alignment across stakeholders.
- Monitor progress with agile metrics, identify and resolve risks and blockers.
- Coordinate dependencies across squads and with other XR projects.
- Communicate with internal and external partners for alignment.
- Support organizational improvement in delivery practices and scalability.
- 5+ years managing complex software programs.
- Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master for multiple squads.
- Strong technical fluency and understanding of system dependencies.
- Practical knowledge of agile frameworks and delivery tools (Jira, Confluence, Product Board).
- Experience with modern software development practices (CI/CD, automation, code review workflows).
- Exceptional facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Familiarity with XR, real-time 3D, or cloud technologies
- Annual cash bonuses
- Commissions for sales roles
- Stock grants
- Comprehensive benefits package
6 skills required
Job Details
Position Overview
Virtual and augmented reality are transforming design and creation through immersive, collaborative experiences that are reshaping industries from entertainment to architecture, engineering, and manufacturing. As XR technology evolves, we’re building the future of cross-platform workflows in a dynamic, startup-like environment.
We are seeking a Technical Program Manager who will also play the role of Scrum Master for multiple squads. You’ll ensure our teams deliver on their goals by creating clarity, facilitating agile practices, and driving cross-team coordination. You’ll balance process with outcome, removing friction, managing dependencies, and enabling teams to focus on building impactful XR products.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of program leadership and agile facilitation, is energized by complex multi-team delivery, and is motivated to help product, engineering, and design squads work better together at scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead squads through agile maturity growth while managing high-impact XR delivery programs
- Partner closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to align on priorities and dependencies
- Gain deep experience in balancing squad health with program deadlines, scope trade-offs, and technical complexity
- Coach teams to adopt sustainable, outcome-oriented agile practices
- Facilitate agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives) for multiple squads while managing program-level goals and milestones
- Define and maintain delivery plans in partnership with product leadership, ensuring alignment across squads and external stakeholders
- Monitor progress using agile metrics (e.g., velocity, OKRs, tech debt), identify risks and blockers, and escalate or resolve them quickly
- Coordinate dependencies across squads and with other projects in the larger XR program
- Communicate and coordinate with internal and external partners, ensuring alignment of priorities, dependencies, and deliverables. Support long-term organizational improvement in delivery practices and scalability
- Coach teams and leaders in agile adoption, adapting frameworks to suit context and maturity
Minimum Requirements
- 5+ years managing complex software programs as a Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Tech Lead, or similar
- Hands-on experience serving as a Scrum Master for multiple squads, including leading teams through transformation
- Strong technical fluency, with the ability to work directly with engineering teams and understand system dependencies
- Practical knowledge of agile frameworks and delivery tools (Jira, Confluence, Product Board, etc.)
- Experience with modern software development practices (e.g., CI/CD, automation, code review workflows)
- Exceptional facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Familiarity with XR, real-time 3D, or cloud technologies is a plus
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About The Company
Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Our technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, media, and entertainment, empowering innovators everywhere to solve challenges big and small. From greener buildings to smarter products to more mesmerizing blockbusters, Autodesk software helps our customers to design and make a better world for all. Over 100 million people use Autodesk software like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, SketchBook, and more to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices and taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate and fabricate their ideas in 3D. We provide exceptional compensation/benefit packages and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have more than 10,000 employees worldwide.
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