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Technical Program Manager (Chief of Staff / Systems Orchestrator)

The Greater Change
Dubai, UAE
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered Yesterday
Technical program managementCritical path analysisRisk mitigationKanbanScrumAgile

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About the client

The client is a real estate developer building AI-enabled homes and workplaces using robotics, hardware, data analytics, wearables and agentic AI.

The organisation operates a lab and experience centre where prototypes progress to real-building deployment.

The company is founder-led and describes itself as fast-moving, with teams connected to leadership.

Role overview

The Technical Program Manager serves as a coordination hub and Chief of Staff for Engineering and Product.

The role manages interdependencies across robotics, hardware engineering, data analytics, wearables and agentic AI.

The goal is to align priorities, surface blockers and keep teams working toward shared objectives.

Key responsibilities

  • Manage critical paths and dependencies for complex launches, including hardware, software and data workstreams.
  • Identify and resolve technical or resource blockers; drive execution and optimise work in progress.
  • Facilitate stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives across multiple teams.
  • Maintain project status, priorities and objectives; prepare executive reports and align teams on priorities.
  • Develop product delivery processes from prototype to production deployment and establish project health, speed and quality KPIs.
  • Manage change communications across hardware, software and data teams.

Technical and leadership requirements

  • Program management knowledge includes critical path analysis, risk mitigation and resource allocation.
  • Expert-level Kanban, Scrum, Agile and Lean manufacturing principles are required.
  • Technical literacy across robotics (ROS), AI (LLMs/RAG) and infrastructure (Docker/Kubernetes) is required.
  • Strong executive communication and concise technical reporting are required.
  • Expertise with Jira, Linear, Asana and Notion, plus advanced data visualisation tools, is required.
  • The role calls for high emotional intelligence, decisive ownership and accountability.

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience managing hardware/software products involving robotics, IoT or wearables is preferred.
  • Experience with multi-tenant deployments or large-scale infrastructure rollouts is preferred.
  • Systems thinking and timely decision-making under pressure are preferred.

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