Full-Time

Technical Project Manager

Photon

Photon

Global AI and digital solutions provider

Compensation Overview

$33k - $118k/yr

+ Variable pay/incentives

Nevada, USA

In Person

Bachelor's, Master's

Category
Engineering Management (1)
Business & Strategy (2)
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Required Skills
SCRUM

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Requirements
  • The candidate must be able to lead cross-functional teams, drive overall planning, provide technical guidance, and partner with engineering, product, and design teams.
  • The candidate must understand requirements and current-state system architecture and drive future enhancements.
  • The candidate must possess knowledge of system design and technical problem-solving skills.
  • The candidate must possess strong communication and interpersonal skills and provide technical expertise and ownership of solutions.
  • A Bachelor of Science or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
  • The candidate should have 8 or more years of experience in the information technology industry, including 5 or more years leading or managing engineering teams.
  • The candidate should have experience leading technology investments across multiple products or product families from innovation through delivery.
  • The candidate should have experience leading onsite and offshore agile teams.
  • The candidate should have experience solutioning and estimating requirements.
  • The candidate should have experience leading execution across highly ambiguous and complex products and programs, making technical and product trade-offs that balance business needs and technical constraints.
  • The candidate should understand user needs, gather requirements, and define scope.
  • The candidate should be able to operate autonomously across multiple teams and demonstrate critical thinking and thought leadership.
  • The candidate should have experience leading complex execution across multiple teams in different time zones, anticipating roadblocks, and creating a path forward.
  • The candidate should have analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.
  • The candidate should be able to translate high-level goals into tangible action plans and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • The candidate should have Agile certification and/or Project Management Professional certification.
Responsibilities
  • Own technical program delivery by driving new feature development through every stage of the agile software development lifecycle.
  • Drive visibility, accountability, and execution across areas of software development for the organization.
  • Understand technology requirements, roadmap, dependencies, and evolution, and develop plans to mitigate risks and deliver features across multiple products.
  • Drive technical excellence within the team by coordinating and contributing to engineering deliverables, including architectural diagrams, specifications, launch criteria, and test plans.
  • Establish expertise in the technology area, serve as the go-to escalation point for execution, drive program visibility, and orchestrate integration across the program area.
  • Be a dedicated member of the Scrum team and help the team continuously improve, maximize velocity, and deliver high-quality products.
  • Provide hands-on program management during analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-implementation phases.
  • Work cross-functionally to develop best practices and development processes, drive impact through key initiatives, and gain adoption of those processes.
  • Own capability backlogs and participate in regular agile planning and grooming sessions to prioritize near-, medium-, and long-term work.
  • Collaborate with partners, product, and development teams to craft technical solutions and provide detailed specifications that satisfy scalability, reliability, and performance goals.
  • Lead communications and relationships with internal and external partners.
  • Resolve conflicts, maintain clarity on priorities, and drive progress on execution.
  • Manage project and team activities, including mitigating risks to the plan, providing status updates, managing trade-offs, completing products and projects, and facilitating planning and governance activities with teams.
  • Understand system and technology integration and the basic features and facilities involved in the integration process.
  • Participate in weekly, monthly, and annual reviews and planning sessions with senior leadership and technology partners.
  • Manage and assist with organization-wide ad hoc, monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting.
  • Drive continuous improvement through efficiencies, process improvements, or automation.
  • Plan capacity based on known work and new roadmap items.
  • Mentor and guide team members on system design, best practices, and coding standards.
  • Identify bottlenecks and issues and provide solutions to mitigate and address them.
  • Estimate efforts and ensure work is completed in a timely manner.

Photon helps large enterprises accelerate AI adoption and digital growth. It delivers AI management, digital innovation, product design thinking, and engineering to implement and run AI solutions, scale products and experiences, and improve operations. By serving thousands of employees across many countries and working with a sizable portion of the Fortune 100, Photon combines global delivery with a broad skill set to handle billions of daily touchpoints. Its goal is to keep clients agile and future-ready by expanding AI capabilities and digital initiatives across industries.

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What believers are saying

  • April 24, 2026 launch and May 14, 2026 SDK updates show rapid product cadence.
  • Photon says thousands of developers and 200,000-plus impressions already validate demand.
  • March 12, 2026 ambassador funding and 2026 hackathons expand its builder funnel.

What critics are saying

  • Apple, Meta, and Google can change messaging access and break Spectrum integrations overnight.
  • Twilio, MessageBird, and open-source rivals can copy multichannel agent plumbing fast.
  • If developers stop shipping agents into chats, Photon’s core distribution thesis collapses.

What makes Photon unique

  • Photon’s Spectrum unifies iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, and SMS/RCS through one API.
  • Photon’s open-source agent stack targets native messaging, not just chatbot wrappers.
  • Photon claims sub-1 second end-to-end latency and broad channel coverage.

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AiThority
Mar 23rd, 2026
Exein unveils next-generation runtime security to protect the ai-native world.

Exein unveils next-generation runtime security to protect the ai-native world. * Photon blocks cyberattacks before execution across physical AI and IoT, autonomous AI agents and cloud and edge infrastructure * Kernel-level prevention sets a new standard beyond traditional user-space detection * Builds on Exein's position as the world's largest runtime security provider, protecting over two billion devices Mar 23, 2026 Prev Next 1 of 42,872 Exein, the global leader in runtime cybersecurity, unveiled Photon, a preemptive breakthrough solution that blocks cyberattacks at the point of execution. Designed for the AI-native world - where digital and physical systems are now inseparable - Photon marks a fundamental shift in how critical infrastructure protects itself. Unlike traditional cybersecurity solutions that detect threats after compromise - typically operating in user space and relying on a cloud network - Exein's Photon operates directly inside the kernel, preventing malicious execution paths before they can run. By blocking attacks before the point of execution, the technology dramatically reduces latency and eliminates entire classes of threats before damage occurs. If malicious instructions cannot execute, the attack itself cannot take place. This advancement establishes a new category of runtime security designed for systems that cannot be disconnected: physical AI and IoT environments, autonomous AI agents, and local hybrid cloud and edge infrastructure. In these environments, from industrial robotics and critical infrastructure to AI-driven platforms, downtime is not an option, and protection must be more precise and granular, blocking malicious threats without shutting down the entire process. The announcement at the RSA Conference (RSAC) comes as cyber threats increasingly target physical systems. Last month, the Munich Security Report 2026 warned that cyber operations are now engineered to cause real-world disruption, accelerating regulatory intervention after voluntary measures failed to address systemic vulnerabilities. At the same time, the speed of attacks is accelerating dramatically: recent threat intelligence shows average attacker 'breakout times' fell to just 29 minutes in 2025, 65% faster than the previous year, driven in part by AI-assisted automation. Protecting the digital and physical in the AI era Artificial intelligence is already capable of identifying vulnerabilities in software and infrastructure. In the near future, these models will not only detect weaknesses but exploit them autonomously to launch attacks at machine speed. As the scale and sophistication of these attacks grow, traditional runtime security systems that rely on detection alone will no longer be sufficient. Photon introduces a new model of preemptive runtime security designed for this AI-driven environment. Rather than detecting attacks after they begin, it prevents malicious execution paths from running in the first place, blocking threats in real time before they can impact the system. Unlike conventional security tools that operate in user space alongside the applications they protect, Photon operates directly within the kernel, the core of the operating system. By enforcing protection at this foundational layer, rather than merely detecting and stopping attacks, it prevents them from executing in the first place - all in real time. This marks a major milestone as physical and digital systems converge, positioning Photon as a new reference architecture for securing physical AI, agent AI and cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Gianni Cuozzo, Founder and CEO of Exein, said: "In a future where the world is infinitely connected with humanoid robots walking among Aithority, local LLMs powering intelligent edges, autonomous drones reshaping mobility, and billions of new autonomous systems bridging the digital and physical realms, preemptive runtime security represents the new generation of protection, built into the very DNA of every device from the ground up. "Exein was born to make this vision a reality: transforming every connected device into a fortress of security, forging the largest decentralised immune system for digital life - cross-vendor, cross-platform, and cross-system. We stand as the first line of defence between the boundless digital world and the physical one we live in, empowering manufacturers to build inherently safe innovations and already safeguarding over 2 billion devices worldwide."