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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # IT Program Manager - **Company:** Tesla, Inc. - **Location:** United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, JIRA - **Published:** September 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/4689c5af-f77c-414c-bf58-5ab58d65a005/it-program-manager ## About the Role * Demonstrated on-the-job experience leading an Agile development team. * Demonstrated on-the-job experience working with senior level customers for status updates and prioritization. * Demonstrated on-the-job knowledge and experience with using Jira for managing backlogs, portfolios, products, and sprints. * Demonstrated on-the-job experience putting together sprint plans. * Demonstrated on-the-job experience putting together weekly reports. * Demonstrated on-the-job ability to monitor the progress of multiple concurrent and highly visible projects and requirements with the ability to recommend or take required corrective actions; to perform risk identification and management; and to communicate effectively with the customer, stakeholder, and project team. * Demonstrated on-the-job communication skills and ability to articulate complex resource and technical issues to a range of audiences. * Demonstrated on-the-job knowledge and experience with leading and managing enterprise level projects that have a multi-disciplinary cross-organizational project team from start to end using the Sponsor's Project Management Framework (PMF) and Agile Project Management methodology. * Demonstrated on-the-job knowledge and experience with managing multiple concurrent projects, short deadlines, and competing priorities. * Demonstrated on-the-job knowledge and experience identifying programmatic challenges, risks, and constraints coupled with a strong ability to convey well-thought mitigation strategies. * Demonstrated on-the-job knowledge and experience managing a project through the accreditation process using ICD-503 and receive ATO (Authority to Operate). Desired Skills * Hold the following Professional Certifications: Project Management Professional (i.e. PMI PMP), Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP). * Demonstrated recent experience with the Sponsor's Lean Agile methodology. * Demonstrated experience managing top line charts, sprint burn-up charts and sprint goals. * Demonstrated experience with Sponsor data repositories, Segmentation service, SecOps Pipeline, and Sponsor JIRA Workflow. * Demonstrated on-the-job ability to communicate (orally and in writing) complex technical concepts and project information, tailoring ideas, explanations, and concepts to executive and senior managers. * Demonstrated on-the-job knowledge of Sponsor's enterprise technical architecture, services-oriented architectures, security requirements, and operating environments. * Demonstrated broad knowledge of Sponsor's IT components, missions, and strategies. * Demonstrated familiarity with IC issues, policies, systems, and working relationships. * Demonstrated on-the-job ability to build and maintain constructive relationships among customers, stakeholders, technical teams, and contractors across the Sponsor and Intelligence Community (IC). ## Related Videos - [ShapeShift: Reinventing Agile for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1655-shapeshift-reinventing-agile-for-a-b2b-saas-scale-up) - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [Agile work at CARIAD – Creating a customer web application for controlling the vehicle ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/200-agile-work-at-cariad-creating-a-customer-web-application-for-controlling-the-vehicle) - [Applying Agile Principles to Incident Management ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/101-applying-agile-principles-to-incident-management) - [Security Pitfalls for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/726-security-pitfalls-for-software-engineers) - [SRE Methods In an Agency Environment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/348-sre-methods-in-an-agency-environment) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [7 Important Tips That Every Software Developer Should Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/101-7-important-tips-that-every-software-developer-should-know) - [From developer to manager – what does it take to become an engineering manager?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/42-from-developer-to-manager-what-does-it-take-to-become-an-engineering-manager) - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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