Technical Program Manager; Broadcast

Role Overview

The Lead Technical Program Manager is responsible for driving the delivery of highly complex programs that align with strategic business priorities. This role requires expert‑level management of stakeholder expectations across technical and business domains, with clear and confident communication at all levels. The individual brings deep domain expertise and articulates decision rationale effectively, contributing to the development of both technical and business solutions.

As a recognized subject‑matter expert, the Lead TPM is frequently consulted on cross‑functional initiatives and operates independently with minimal oversight. This role earns trust and respect from engineering teams and external stakeholders through consistent leadership, accountability, and strategic insight.

This is a 6‑month contract position that requires a hybrid model of at least 3 days per week onsite in Bristol, CT.

• Drive delivery of highly complex, cross‑functional technical programs that align with strategic business priorities.
• Lead program planning, roadmap definition, and execution across multiple work streams, ensuring on‑time and on‑budget delivery.
• Manage stakeholder expectations across technical and business domains, providing clear, confident, and tailored communication at all levels.
• Serve as a subject‑matter expert and trusted advisor, delivering decision rationale and guidance for both technical and business solutions.
• Facilitate cross‑team coordination, ensuring alignment, dependency management, and effective collaboration in a matrixed environment.
• Identify, track, and communicate program metrics and KPIs to guide decision‑making throughout the program lifecycle.
• Proactively remove roadblocks, elevate issues, and leverage organizational resources to keep teams moving toward commitments.
• Own risk, dependency, and change management for complex technical programs, including mitigation and contingency planning.
• Champion best practices in program management, agile methodologies, governance, and operational excellence.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior leadership, engineering teams, and external partners to drive accountability and outcomes.

• Love turning ambiguous, cross‑functional ideas into clear roadmaps and driving them through to delivery across multiple work streams.
• Are energized by influencing without authority and building strong, trust‑based relationships with senior leaders, engineers, and business partners.
• Are comfortable diving into complex technical domains, asking sharp questions, and connecting the dots between infrastructure, applications, data, and operations.
• Instinctively think in metrics and outcomes, using data to guide decisions, manage risk, and measure program success.
• Thrive in a matrixed environment, calmly navigating competing priorities, resolving conflict, and keeping stakeholders aligned.
• Care deeply about operational excellence and service quality, designing programs with the end‑customer and long‑term sustainability in mind.
• Enjoy working independently with high ownership, while actively fostering transparency, collaboration, and accountability across teams.

• 7+ years of experience delivering large, strategic technical programs in a matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated success driving complex, cross‑functional initiatives from planning through launch and stabilization.
• Excellent facilitation, verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to technical and executive audiences.
• Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills; able to influence without authority across engineering, product, and business teams.
• Proven ability to manage risk, dependencies, and change across multiple concurrent work streams.
• Solid understanding of core technology domains (e.g., infrastructure, networks, applications, data platforms, software engineering).
• Experience with program metrics and analytics; able to define, track, and use KPIs to guide decisions.
• Hands‑on experience with agile methodologies and program management tooling (e.g., Jira, Smartsheet, Airtable, Confluence).
• Strong financial…