$80-$180/hr technical program management work, on your schedule
Review AI-drafted program plans, risk registers, and cross-team coordination the way you'd review a launch plan before commit. Flag the dependency no one owns. Remote and paid hourly.
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Hi, we're Zac and Jack, the founders of Terac. We want to talk to you directly, because you are the most important part of what we're building.
Terac is a community of experts. People who have spent years getting good at something specific and hard. The world is about to need more of you, not less. As AI takes on more of the world's work, the bottleneck shifts to the people who actually know what they're talking about.
Expert labor is the rarest resource in the world right now, and it is shockingly hard to find. The companies that need a TPM's eye on a plan that hides a critical dependency spend weeks chasing people, paying placement fees, and settling for whoever is available. Meanwhile thousands of qualified people are sitting with knowledge that no one ever asks for.
That gap is what we're here to close. Every project that lands on Terac is routed to the people who actually know the answer, on their schedule, paid fairly, and only when the work is verified. No middleman taking a cut of your time. No vague gigs. No chasing checks.
We care about every single person in this community. If you join Terac, you're not a row in a database to us. We read the feedback. We answer the emails. We will fight for you when a customer is being unreasonable, and we will be honest with you when something on our side is broken. The quality of this panel is our entire company, and we owe you a serious bar.
If you've made it this far, here is what we're asking: claim your profile. Put your expertise on the record. Let the world's most ambitious teams come find you for the work only you can do.
Technical Program Management questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Yes. We need TPMs who can evaluate AI outputs on cross-functional coordination, risk tracking, and milestone planning across hardware, silicon, and firmware programs, not only Agile sprints. Your experience with ECO processes, NPI schedules, and supplier dependencies fills gaps that software-track TPMs cannot cover.
All of those signal useful depth, but what matters more is whether you actively use the practices. A SAFe Program Consultant running ARTs daily is as valuable as a PgMP managing a portfolio. You evaluate AI-drafted content against the framework you know best, so any active certification or recent hands-on experience qualifies.
It is grounded in real TPM deliverables. You review and critique AI-drafted dependency maps, risk registers, escalation memos, milestone trackers, and cross-team alignment docs. You may also create worked examples of a status update or a go/no-go briefing from scratch.
Regulated-industry TPM experience is among the hardest for models to replicate, which makes it valuable here. If you can evaluate AI outputs against ITAR handling, AS9100 or CMMI documentation, or FDA traceability obligations, that sub-specialty is actively sought. You will never be asked to share controlled or proprietary program data.
No task asks you to disclose or derive answers from confidential information belonging to your employer or a third party. Every task is self-contained: you work from scenarios and artifacts Terac provides, and your contribution is your reasoning, not proprietary data. If a prompt appears to solicit internal information, flag it rather than answer.
Why your expertise matters
Technical program AI defaults to generic project-management advice. It writes a plan that ignores the tradeoffs of software delivery at scale and leaves a critical dependency unowned. Sequencing that work across distributed systems takes a working TPM, not a template. Your corrections teach these tools when a plan that reads well on paper would collapse under real constraints.
How pay works
Pay reaches the top of the $80-$180/hr band on technical scope: programs across distributed systems, hardware-software co-design, or platform migrations at large engineering orgs. Remote tasks are assigned asynchronously, you choose which to accept, and payment is released after each is verified. No minimum and no retainer.
What the work looks like
A sample of the technical program management work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Review an AI-drafted program charter for a platform migration and flag where the dependency graph is underspecified or stakeholders are missing.
- Evaluate a model's RAID log for a multi-team launch and separate risks a TPM would escalate from routine noise.
- Write a worked example scoping a cross-org initiative from a vague directive, showing your clarifying questions and first milestone draft.
- Assess an AI-drafted launch readiness checklist for a backend API and correct the sequencing errors and missing exit criteria.
- Write a weekly status update for a stalled infrastructure program, framing technical blockers for VPs without losing accuracy.
- Annotate a set of AI-drafted escalation calls in a timeline, labeling which reflect sound TPM judgment and why the flawed ones mislead.
Specialties we match
Technical Program Management projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- Cross-functional dependency mapping
- OKR and roadmap authoring
- Risk and mitigation tracking
- RFC and design doc review
- Jira / Linear program tracking
- Headcount and capacity planning
- Launch readiness criteria
- Incident retrospective facilitation
- RAID log management
- API / platform migration programs
- Hardware-software co-design programs
- Executive status reporting
