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Palantir's defense product vertical builds mission-critical products for the modern warfighter. We provide a complete ecosystem where customers can securely integrate and visualize their data, and build sophisticated, full-fledged programs such as common operating pictures, alert-triaging inboxes, and resource allocation planning tools driven by rich-ML models. Our customers use our defense offering to perform rich analyses that drive core operations within their organizations - these programs are relied upon for daily operations in the command centers and battlefronts of militaries across the world. As a Technical Program Manager (TPM) focused on our defense product offering, you are the engine behind Palantir’s engineering teams. You partner with developers to optimize our development process and make sure we’re shipping high quality products every day. You track and stabilize projects, remove roadblocks, and anticipate stakeholder needs to free up our engineers to focus their time and attention on the technical problems they are best equipped to solve. This position requires a combination of project management, process optimization, technical aptitude and execution skills. You are a person who loves fixing problems and always embraces the best idea, even when it is not your own.
Job Responsibility:
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
Requirements:
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
Ability and willingness to obtain a US security clearance at the Secret designation or above
Nice to have:
Demonstrated success managing complex software development projects for an enterprise software company or startup
An ability to engage in technical discussion and invest in learning technical concepts
Excellent judgment and composure in high-pressure situations
A creative approach to project management centered around lightweight frameworks that enable rapid iteration, while operating in harmony with a larger development organization
An ability to develop strong relationship with customer-facing teams and a high level of empathy with our end-users’ needs
Meticulous attention to detail, including holding tightly to your team’s vision and maintaining a high product quality bar
What we offer:
Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
Commuter benefits
Relocation assistance
Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child