Palantir

Technical Program Manager - US Government

Palantir$93K — $160K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of industry experience in government, defense, aerospace, or national security programs
  • Active Secret clearance required; TS/SCI preferred
  • Experience managing complex software development projects
  • Prior missile or missile defense experience preferred
  • Strong ability to engage in technical discussions and a willingness to learn
  • Excellent judgment under pressure
  • Strong relationship-building skills with customers and empathy towards end-users
  • Attention to detail and commitment to high-quality product standards

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain execution plans for program artifacts like master schedules and capability briefs
  • Translate technical progress into decision-oriented briefs for stakeholder communication
  • Synthesize product vision into actionable team tasks and triage urgent requests
  • Maintain a comprehensive project status and proactively resolve potential issues
  • Enhance collaboration across teams and improve efficiency against shared objectives
  • Identify opportunities to strengthen customer relations and program impact

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
  • Automatic coverage of basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance
  • Commuter benefits and relocation assistance
  • Flexible paid time off without accrual limitations
  • 2 weeks additional paid time off at year-end, subject to business needs
  • 10 paid holidays per year
  • Supportive leave programs for military service and medical events
  • Paid parental leave and subsidized child care benefits
  • Fertility and family-building support including adoption and surrogacy benefits
  • 401k eligibility for retirement planning
Full Job Description
The Role

As a Technical Program Manager (TPM), you serve as a technical, external-facing program lead responsible for connecting our internal teams with government program offices, implementation teams and industry partners. You act as a trusted representative with the customer, ensuring our capabilities, priorities and business interests are clearly understood and appropriately prioritized across the broader program.

This position requires a combination of project management, process optimization, technical proficiency and execution skills. You are a person who loves fixing problems, scaling technical solutions, and always embraces the best idea, even when it is not your own.

Core Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain and drive execution against integrated master scheduled, requirements documentation, capability briefs and other core program artifacts
  • Translate technical capabilities and implementation progress into concise, decision-oriented briefs for customers, partners and senior leaders
  • 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.
  • Navigate complex, multi-party program dynamics and proactively identify opportunities to strengthen our position and increase impact with the customer


What We Value

  • Demonstrated success managing complex software development projects for an enterprise software company or startup
  • Prior missile or missile defense experience, with experience supporting the Missile Defense Agency strongly preferred
  • 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
  • Ability to travel up to 75% based on program and customer needs


What We Require

  • 2+ years of relevant industry experience, preferably supporting complex government, defense, aerospace or national security programs
  • Active Secret clearance at minimum, TS/SCI strongly preferred


Salary

The salary range for this position is estimated to be $93,000 - $160,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual's relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.

Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians' lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.

Benefits
• 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
• Employees can enroll in Palantir's 401k plan

Life at Palantir

We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that's why we celebrate individuals' strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians' lives is just one of the ways we're investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.

In keeping consistent with Palantir's values and culture, we believe employees are "better together" and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for "Remote" work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.

If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here.

About Palantir

Palantir Technologies is a software and services company that specializes in big data analytics. The company was founded in 2003 by a group of PayPal alumni, including Peter Thiel, and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Palantir's software is used by government agencies, financial institutions, and other organizations to analyze large amounts of data and make better decisions. The company has been the subject of controversy due to its work with government agencies, including the CIA and ICE.
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