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The Role
Lead technical, external-facing government programs by aligning internal teams with customers, driving schedules, translating technical progress into decision briefs, triaging field requests, resolving issues, and improving cross-team collaboration to deliver software capabilities for defense programs.
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A World-Changing Company
Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.
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
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. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.
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Skills Required
- 2+ years of relevant industry experience supporting government, defense, aerospace, or national security programs
- Active Secret clearance (minimum)
- TS/SCI clearance (strongly preferred)
- Prior missile or missile defense experience, experience supporting the Missile Defense Agency
- Demonstrated success managing complex software development projects
- Ability to engage in technical discussion and learn technical concepts
- Excellent judgment and composure in high-pressure situations
- Ability to travel up to 75% based on program and customer needs
- Meticulous attention to detail and maintaining high product quality
- Strong relationship-building with customer-facing teams and empathy for end-users
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive and high quality, with some U.S. offices/roles featuring zero‑premium plans and company‑highlighted mental‑health support. This breadth and affordability are positioned as standouts in the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is framed as 'take‑what‑you‑need' and paired with a two‑week companywide December closure, providing both flexibility and predictable downtime. The combination of flexible PTO and the year‑end shutdown offers autonomy alongside guaranteed rest.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental benefits are presented as generous, including paid parental leave where not covered by law, a stipend for new parents, family‑care leave, childcare assistance, and flexible arrangements. Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support are also highlighted.
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What We Do
At Palantir, we're helping the world's most important institutions use their data to solve their most urgent problems. Palantir software helps the world's most important institutions integrate, analyze, and act on their data — unlocking answers to questions they couldn't ask before. From delivering disaster relief to building safer automobiles, we're honored to help make our partners better at their most important work. Together with our customers, we're building the future of national security, healthcare, energy, finance, manufacturing, and more.
Why Work With Us
We build the software that powers the world's most important institutions — the hospitals, militaries, intelligence agencies, and industrial operators that can't afford to fail. The consequence of our work is what makes us different.
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