Technical Engineering Program Manager
Do you enjoy bringing order to ambitious engineering problems? Help shape the roadmap behind the world’s first autonomous buildings!
About PassiveLogic®
PassiveLogic is the first fully autonomous platform for buildings. We’ve reinvented the fundamental principles of automation to democratize technology, optimize buildings, and reduce the world’s carbon footprint. We are a team of technologists, engineers, and creatives dedicated to making a sustainable impact through real-world solutions.
We are looking for team members who have a passion for technology and want to work on cutting-edge problems with real-world solutions. Our culture is built on bringing together the most talented engineers, thinkers, and creatives—backed by the world’s leading investors—working together to make the future a reality.
About the Role
This is a career-defining opportunity to play a crucial role in a hyper-scale AI company that is transforming the future of autonomous systems, energy, and the built environment.
As a Technical Engineering Program Manager at PassiveLogic, you will support engineering teams by creating and maintaining the roadmaps for the products they build. You will provide guidance on initiatives and priorities, balancing long-term goals and near-term product releases.
What you’ll do
Help engineering teams move forward when complexity slows progress: Leverage your technical knowledge to clear roadblocks and fill knowledge gaps in the teams you support, ensuring that the products you are responsible for provide value to customers and are released on schedule. Approach problem-solving with a bias for action and a data-driven methodology, making sound decisions even in imperfect situations.
Lead Product Strategy and Engineering Execution: Define and implement product roadmaps, guiding engineering teams through structured work streams to meet development goals. Make strategic decisions with a focus on long-term success and maintaining accountability to the bigger picture.
Drive Product Roadmaps with a Focus on Exceptional User Experience: Leverage your passion for user experience design to shape product roadmaps to create innovative, user-centric solutions, redefining autonomy in the built environment, while balancing design excellence and timely delivery.
Support Design and Validate Fidelity: We start every engineering effort with design; support UI/UX and engineering teams to deliver clearly documented product designs. Validate fidelity to the design in the products the team creates.
Give teams the visibility they need to make good decisions: Clearly communicate plans, progress, goals, and roadblocks to stakeholders, producing reporting artifacts that enable sound decision-making.
Innovate with Emerging Technologies: Be a go-to expert on the latest product trends in software tools and evaluate new technology capabilities we can leverage.
What you’ll bring
If your experience does not meet all our posted requirements below, we’d still love to hear from you. We are looking for practitioners who are passionate about understanding people, committed to lifelong learning, and driven by the love of what they do. If that’s you, please apply!
We value curiosity as much as experience. We look for people who enjoy learning, challenge conventional thinking, and take pride in continuously improving their craft.
You must have
Proven experience:
5+ years of experience in project, product, or program management.
A technical/engineering background, including a BS/MS/PhD or related degree in a deeply technical area (excluding programming/software bootcamps)
Experience using multiple project and program management techniques and understanding when to apply which methodology (waterfall, agile, Kanban, etc)
Exceptional Communication Skills: You excel at articulating the "what" and "why" behind design decisions, ensuring team members grasp both high-level concepts and implementation details. With a keen ability to communicate in nuance, you recognize that stated needs and actual needs may differ, allowing you to communicate with clarity, precision, and deep understanding.
Organized and strategic: Skilled in creating project roadmaps, managing timelines, and ensuring deliverables meet both technical and user expectations.
Collaborative mindset: Work closely with UI/UX, front end, back end, sales, and customer success teams to define work streams that align with customer releases. You will work hand in glove with the project managers to ensure the work plan supports the technical road map.
Adaptability: Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment, eager to learn, iterate, and innovate.
Problem solving: You own this role. When issues arise, be the empowered force that solves them, rolling-up.
You should have
Experience shipping product: Demonstrated ability to successfully deliver products in a complex team environment.
Strong project management skills: Proven expertise in aligning project execution with business goals, ensuring efficient operations and strategic impact.
Documentation and user stories experience: A genuine passion for documentation combined with the skill to write actionable, clear, and concise user stories and test cases, ensuring teams have the resources they need for successful execution.
Leadership abilities and aspirations: You bring a high-energy, outgoing personality to leadership, driven by a passion for sharing knowledge, enhancing team skills, and empowering others to succeed. Committed to establishing yourself as an innovative leader and product champion, you are eager to shape and drive an industry-disrupting product ecosystem.
Commitment to continual self-investment in product development: A track record of staying up to date with emerging trends in product development and engineering management, demonstrating a commitment to personal and professional growth.
Alignment with Leadership: Ability to stay closely aligned with leadership (including the CEO) throughout the development process to ensure product vision and goals are met.
Passion for Design and Sustainability: Strong passion for human-centered design, sustainability, and green building, integrating these values into product development and decision-making.
It’s helpful to have
Technical knowledge: Understanding of software tools in the fields of architecture, energy modeling, building design, etc. (tools like Sefaira, Insight360, Cove tool, Ladybug tools, DesignBuilder, IES VE, OpenStudio, EnergyPlus, eQuest, Trane Trace 3D, TestFit, etc)
Ability to convey the strengths and weaknesses of the above software tools to those with limited experience
Experience with:
Designing mixed-methodology research
Mapping qualitative to quantitative data
Using synthesis to drive impactful insight.
We know there are candidates who might not fit everything we’ve described above, or who might have experience and skills we haven’t considered. PassiveLogic can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities to the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background. Even if you don’t meet all the requirements above, we still want to hear from you.
Compensation, Benefits & Perks:
Competitive compensation
Generous equity share package
Medical, dental and vision coverage
Disability and life Insurance options
Flex PTO
Team-building events
Free catered lunch in the office Monday — Friday
Free ski pass (We are at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon)
Free National Park pass
When applying, include:
A cover letter telling us why you're the perfect candidate for PassiveLogic
A resume
Extra mile — include a description of a project (of any type) you personally created, devised, built, managed, organized, or designed that was of your own self-initiative
Diversity and inclusion
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is woven into our values and everything we do. We welcome all—come as you are and bring your whole self. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity every day by maintaining a safe and inclusive environment for our employees at every stage of their careers.
- Department
- Project & Product Management
- Role
- Engineering Program Management
- Locations
- Salt Lake City
About PassiveLogic
PassiveLogic enables autonomy for controlled systems and unlocks collaboration between teams to manage those systems. PassiveLogic has reimagined how we design, build, operate, maintain, and manage infrastructural robots, whose current technology has remained unchanged for decades. By using revolutionary physics-based Quantum digital twins and leveraging the world’s fastest AI compiler to simulate future-forward controls, PassiveLogic empowers users to easily create their own generative digital twins in minutes to launch autonomous control. This control optimizes for energy use, equipment longevity, and occupant comfort levels in real time for the system’s lifetime. Autonomous control lays the foundation for decarbonization at scale and enables truly smart, connected cities. PassiveLogic is backed by leading investors including nVentures, Era Ventures, Keyframe Capital, Addition, RET Ventures, noa (formerly A/O Proptech), and Brookfield Growth.