Technical Strategy Manager

Job Title: Technical Strategy Manager
Department: Executive Office
Level: L4+
FLSA: Exempt

Job Summary:

As Technical Strategy Manager, you will work directly with the CTO as a trusted partner in driving our technical vision, strategy, and execution. This unique role combines engineering fluency, program leadership, and executive operations, giving you direct impact on company direction. You will help shape the CTO’s priorities, align teams around critical initiatives, and ensure projects are executed at the highest quality.

This position is ideal for someone technically strong, highly organized, and eager to operate at the intersection of technology, business strategy, and executive leadership. You’ll gain exceptional visibility into decision-making at the highest level of a global robotics company while helping scale our technology and impact.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

• Partner with the CTO to set and execute strategic technical initiatives, ensuring alignment across engineering, product, and operations.
• Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical teams—translating complex engineering priorities into actionable plans.
• Drive high-priority projects from conception through delivery, managing risks, timelines, and dependencies.
• Prepare technical briefings, analyses, and insights to support CTO-level decision-making.
• Capture outcomes from executive and technical meetings, and ensure follow-through on action items.
• Manage and prioritize the CTO’s calendar, communications, and commitments with a focus on strategic impact.
• Maintain organized documentation, technical roadmaps, and project tracking systems.
• Collaborate closely with our global TPM team (U.S. and Korea), adapting to time zones and ensuring smooth coordination.
• Occasionally, travel to our Korea office to work directly with engineering leadership.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.  

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Required Skills/Abilities/Qualifications: 

• Technical foundation: 3–5 years of experience in software engineering, technical program management, or technical operations.
• Strategic execution: Proven ability to drive projects from idea to launch, managing multiple stakeholders.
• Strong communicator: Able to explain technical concepts clearly to both engineers and executives.
• Organized operator: Exceptional attention to detail, time management, and follow-through.
• Trusted partner: Professionalism, integrity, and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential information.
• Global mindset: Comfortable working across time zones and cultures; flexible with schedules.

Preferred Skills/Abilities/Qualifications: 

• Bilingual in Korean and English.
• Experience in a high-growth startup or technology company.
• Exposure to executive-level partnership roles (Office of the CTO, Business Operations, or Chief of Staff track).
• Familiarity with robotics, AI, or hardware/software product development.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, or robotics engineering.

Physical Requirements: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Prolonged periods of sitting/standing at a desk and working on a computer. The employee routinely is required to sit; stand, walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to lift 30 lbs. 

The pay range for this position is $135K-$168K. Pay is dependent on the applicant's relevant experience.

Bear Robotics, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state or federal law or local ordinance.