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# Technical Program Manager

- **Company:** Animore
- **Location:** München, Germany
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, JIRA, Scrum Methodology, Gitlab, Information Technology
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/technical-program-manager-f-m-d-animore-10445426

## About the Role

* 3 years as a technical program or project manager working directly with engineering teams.
 * A degree in engineering, computer science or a related field, or hands-on engineering experience. You can follow a technical discussion and push back on an estimate when it doesn't add up.
 * You've worked hands-on with GitLab, Jira or a similar tracker. You keep boards clean and use them to report real progress.
 * You've worked with OKRs or a similar goal-setting framework and connected them to day-to-day engineering work.
 * You've coordinated cross-functional teams, and you can turn what technical stakeholders need into structured work.
 * You're structured, proactive and focused on finding solutions.
 * You speak fluent English., * Experience with robotics, hardware or AI/ML products, where hardware and software timelines depend on each other.
 * Startup or scale-up experience, where processes are still being built.
 * Experience delivering projects to external customers.

## Description

* Plan and align technical deliverables across sprints and OKR cycles, so everyone knows what's coming and why.
 * Work closely with our engineering teams every day.
 * Own the health of our GitLab tickets and get them closed on time every sprint.
 * Prepare and run sprint planning, including any work carried over from the previous sprint.
 * Make sure materials for the team's weekly meetings are ready.
 * Challenge delivery timelines on technical grounds, and follow up on what's been promised.
 * Track implementation progress across all technical teams.
 * Maintain OKR tracking from proposal to closure, kept in sync with GitLab.
 * Keep our company roadmap, engineering work and customer deliveries aligned with each other.
 * Spot technical risks early and drive the plan to reduce them.