Principal Technical Program Manager, Hayden AI
$213.7-277.9k
Offers Equity & Bonus
AI-powered smart traffic enforcement platform
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AI-powered smart traffic enforcement platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$213.7-277.9k
Offers Equity & Bonus
101-200 employees
Company mission
To harness the power of computer vision to transform the way transit systems and other government agencies address real-world challenges.
Role
Who you are
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in an engineering discipline
- 12+ years in Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or a related role
- Demonstrated track record managing a portfolio of concurrent, cross-functional programs in a fast-moving environment
- Experience navigating business-engineering tension: translating contracts, revenue commitments, or customer obligations into engineering capacity and sequencing decisions
- Technical fluency across multiple domains — enough to engage credibly with hardware, embedded, cloud, and AI engineering teams without domain specialists present
- Strong executive communication skills: structured, direct, and able to distill complex program status into clear decisions
Desirable
- Experience with on-vehicle, edge-deployed, or ruggedized systems (hardware, embedded, edge AI)
- Background in computer vision, autonomous systems, robotics, or AI/ML programs
- Experience delivering technology to government or municipal clients (procurement cycles, compliance requirements, deployment constraints)
- Familiarity with fleet management, secure transaction systems, or sensor hardware platforms
- Experience in a high-growth startup or scale-up environment where process didn’t exist before you built it
What the job involves
- The Principal Technical Program Manager will own cross-functional visibility and delivery accountability across Hayden’s full engineering and business portfolio
- Working directly with executive leadership and business partners across Engineering, Growth, Finance, and Operations, this role translates competing business commitments into a coherent, executable plan, holding the line when capacity and demand diverge
- They operate across the full technical stack: hardware, embedded software, edge AI, cloud, computer vision, fleet systems, and government deployment - fluent enough in each domain to surface the right risks and drive the right conversations
- Portfolio Governance: Own the company-level program portfolio — maintaining a single source of truth for commitments, capacity, dependencies, and status across all active lines of work
- Business-Engineering Translation: Serve as the primary interface between executive leadership and engineering teams, translating business commitments (contracts, growth targets, customer deployments) into engineering capacity plans and surfacing tradeoffs before they become misses
- Executive Reporting: Design and maintain the dashboards, cadences, and reporting frameworks that give the senior leadership clear, accurate visibility into portfolio health without noise
- Capacity Planning & Demand Management: Partner with engineering leads across Hardware, Perception, Platform/Cloud, and Eng Ops to maintain a real-time view of capacity versus committed demand, and drive prioritization decisions when they conflict
- Cross-Functional Program Delivery: Drive end-to-end delivery of strategic programs that span multiple engineering pillars and business functions, including customer-facing deployments, new product launches, and operational scaling initiatives
Our take
Cities around the world are dealing with clogged bus lanes, blocked stops, and traffic violations that slow down public transit and put people at risk. It's a huge problem that most cities face, but one that's often hard to monitor or enforce effectively.
Hayden AI is tackling this problem with its smart, bus-mounted cameras powered by AI. They automatically detect when vehicles block bus lanes or stops, helping cities gather real-time data and tacke action to imprvoe safety and traffic flow. Already in use in cities like New York, LA, and now Barcelona and Braga, it's a neat idea and one that's keeping buses moving and riders safe.
Its work is more than just ticketing, it's about making cities smarter, greener, and safer for everyone and its been making big moves. It just wrapped up its pilot in Portugal that revealed nearly 8,000 violations in just three months, and launched the largest automated enforcement project in Europe in Barcelona. With over $193M raised, the company is certainly growing fast and turning head in the govtech space.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2022
$4m
LATE VC
Sep 2020
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $53m
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Vaibhav Ghadiok
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Robotics Engineer at Nixie Labs, Head of Mapping at NAUTO, and Navigation & Perception Lead at Visible Sensors.
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