Were seeking an experienced Senior Manager of Technical Program Management (TPM) to lead a team of TPMs and drive execution across our most critical cross-functional engineering initiatives. This role blends people leadership program strategy and hands-on execution youll build and mentor a high-performing TPM team while personally driving alignment across engineering product and business stakeholders on our highest-priority programs.
The ideal candidate has deep technical fluency a track record of managing complex programs from concept to launch and the leadership skills to grow a team while raising the bar on program management practices across the organization.
HOW YOULL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:
- Lead and grow a team of TPMs including hiring mentoring performance management and career development.
- Own end-to-end delivery of major cross-organizational technical programs from scoping and planning through execution risk management and launch.
- Partner with engineering leadership product management and design to align on roadmaps priorities and tradeoffs across multiple teams.
- Identify and mitigate risks proactively surfacing dependencies blockers and resourcing gaps before they impact timelines.
- Establish and evolve program management practices tooling rituals reporting and processes that scale with the organization.
- Drive clear concise communication of program status risks and decisions to engineering leadership and executive stakeholders.
- Facilitate technical planning processes such as quarterly roadmap planning sprint/PI planning and post-mortems.
- Champion a culture of accountability and continuous improvement using data and retrospectives to refine how the team plans and executes.
- Represent the TPM function in cross-functional leadership forums and influence organizational strategy.
WED LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
- 10 years of experience in technical program management engineering program management or a related discipline including 2 years directly managing a team of TPMs or program managers.
- Strong technical background CS degree or equivalent experience with enough fluency in software architecture APIs and infrastructure to engage credibly with engineers and make informed tradeoff decisions.
- Demonstrated success leading large complex cross-functional programs (multiple teams competing priorities ambiguous scope) to successful completion.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience communicating effectively to both engineers and senior executives.
- Strong analytical skills comfortable defining metrics building dashboards and using data to drive decisions.
- Experience with program/project management tools (e.g. Jira Confluence Smartsheet) and methodologies (Agile Scrum SAFe or similar).
- A track record of building or scaling program management processes within a growing engineering organization.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to distill complexity into clear actionable narratives.
- D emonstrated experience leveraging AI tools to streamline workflows enhance productivity and support high-quality decision-making.
Nice to Have
- Experience in data security data management backup/recovery or infrastructure/cloud software.
- Familiarity with hybrid and multicloud environments (AWS Azure Google Cloud) and enterprise IT workloads.
- Background as a software engineer engineering manager or in a related technical role prior to moving into program management.
- Experience operating through a large-scale product integration or M&A; (e.g. platform consolidation efforts).
- PMP PMI-ACP or equivalent certification.
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