Technical Project Manager (Falls Church)

Position: Technical Project Manager

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Falls Church, VA. (Remote within the Continental US but strong preference will be given to applicants located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.)

The Role: Tesla Government is seeking a Technical Project Manager to bring structure and visibility to delivery across our technology initiatives. You'll build capacity-aware plans that keep sequencing, dependencies, and resource constraints visible, so delivery commitments reflect reality.

About Us: Tesla Government Inc. (no affiliation with the automotive company) is a rapidly growing small business, located in Falls Church, Virginia. Founded in 2009, Tesla Government seeks to improve how government agencies manage and share information internally and with government and external partners. Our proven agile, outcome-oriented approach delivers results quickly, reducing risk and driving client success.

We offer Flex PTO, flexible work schedule, health benefits, 4% matching on 401k contributions, competitive compensation, and work from home (telework). We have a friendly, active work environment, and our projects make a difference.

Position Summary: The Technical Project Manager is responsible for establishing and maintaining structured, capacity-aware delivery plans across technology initiatives. This role ensures that project sequencing, dependencies, and resource constraints are visible and managed proactively so that delivery commitments reflect reality. The Technical Project Manager does not own delivery commitments but ensures that the information required to form and maintain those commitments is accurate, current, and visible.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (others may be assigned)

• Build and maintain integrated project plans across engineering, infrastructure, QA, and release activities.

• Define milestones, dependencies, and sequencing based on technical inputs and capacity constraints.

• Translate estimates and partial allocations into realistic delivery timelines.

• Maintain a consolidated view of active and planned initiatives.

• Identify resource conflicts and cross-project dependencies.

• Ensure capacity constraints are visible when new work is introduced.

• Surface when new work displaces existing commitments.

• Track progress against planned milestones and estimates.

• Identify schedule, scope, or capacity variance early.

• Provide forward-looking projections when delivery risk emerges.

• Coordinate incremental releases and milestone completion.

• Define and track release readiness criteria.

• Ensure delivery milestones meet defined standards before progressing.

• Provide clear, structured updates on delivery posture, risks, and dependencies.

• Present consolidated views of timelines, sequencing, and capacity to leadership.

• Surface conflicts and require explicit prioritization decisions when necessary.

• Participate in business development efforts by providing technical inputs and recommendations, as requested, to the Director of IT or ad hoc business development teams.

• Does not absorb unresolved ambiguity; surfaces missing inputs and assumptions.

• Does not allow timelines to be treated as fixed when underlying assumptions are unstable.

• Requires explicit tradeoffs when priorities change; drives and documents considerations of pros/cons when making tradeoffs. Escalates decisionmaking to the Director of IT to address tradeoffs when appropriate.

• Maintains a single, visible view of delivery across initiatives.

• Operates with discipline without introducing unnecessary process overhead.

Key Interactions:

• Director of IT: provides planning inputs to support commitment formation and tradeoff decisions.

• Product Owner: ensures work is sufficiently defined to plan and sequence.

• Engineering Leads: ensures estimates and dependencies reflect technical reality.

• Architecture / Infrastructure: incorporates platform and environment constraints into plans.

• QA: ensures testing effort and sequencing are reflected.

What Success Looks Like:

• Delivery plans are grounded in real capacity and sequencing, not optimistic timelines.

• Risks, dependencies, and conflicts are surfaced early and drive decisions before delivery is impacted.

• New work does not enter without clear prioritization and visible impact on existing commitments.

• Milestones and release criteria are consistently enforced across initiatives.

• Variance is identified early, with clear projections and required tradeoffs escalated to leadership.

• Leadership has a clear, current view of delivery across all active initiatives.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. citizen.

• 8+ years of technical project management experience in software and engineering-driven environments.

• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain integrated, capacity-aware delivery plans across development, infrastructure, QA, and release activities.

• Strong experience sequencing work across cross-functional teams, including identifying dependencies, managing resource constraints, and coordinating multiple concurrent initiatives.

• Proven track record of tracking progress against plans, identifying variance early, and providing forward-looking delivery projections.

• Ability to enforce delivery discipline, including milestone tracking, release readiness, and requiring explicit prioritization and tradeoff decisions when constraints emerge.

• Comfortable engaging with engineering teams on technical sequencing, assumptions, and dependencies, and translating that into clear plans and timelines.

• Experience introducing structure and consistency into environments where delivery practices are evolving, without relying on heavy process.

• Familiarity with cloud-based and engineering environments (e.g., AWS).

Desired Experience:

• Experience with federal government clients or contracts.

To apply please submit:

• Resume

• Cover Letter

Compensation: The expected initial salary for this role is $125,000.00 annually. Actual compensation may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge and skills, education, experience, certifications, geographic location, and organizational needs. Individual compensation will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

In addition to base salary, Tesla Government offers a comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, retirement savings options, paid time off, paid holidays, and professional development opportunities.

Tesla Government Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

This is a full time position