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Lead Technical Program Manager
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Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 01704, USA
Listed on 2026-07-01
Listing for:
Definitive Healthcare
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-01
Job specializations:
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Business
Change Management -
IT/Tech
Change Management
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Lead Technical Program Manager
We are seeking a Lead Technical Program Manager to join our growing team. This individual contributor role serves as the Directly Responsible Individual for assigned initiatives, accountable for delivery outcomes, execution rigor, and stakeholder alignment. We are looking for someone who embodies our core values in how they operate – taking full ownership of outcomes, bringing a data‑driven and quality‑first mindset to decision‑making, and continuously seeking opportunities to improve how teams plan, execute, and deliver.
WhatDoes Success In the Role Look Like
- Predictable, on‑time delivery of complex cross‑functional technical initiatives.
- Clear, trusted visibility into program status, risks, and progress for stakeholders and leadership.
- Reduced execution friction across Product, Engineering, and Data teams.
- Improved consistency, rigor, and transparency in planning and delivery practices.
- Manage cross‑functional technical projects and contribute to larger program initiatives from initiation through execution, delivery and operationalization for healthcare and life sciences data and analytics products.
- Manage product development initiatives across Product and Engineering and/or technical initiatives with IT.
- Partner with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, timelines, success metrics, dependencies, and implementation plans and drive alignment and commitment to delivery outcomes.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, roadmaps, RAID logs, communication plans, release schedules, and status reporting.
- Coordinate cross‑functional teams to ensure alignment on priorities, milestones, deliverables, and timelines.
- Facilitate project meetings, stakeholder reviews, and program governance activities.
- Drive quarterly planning, roadmap alignment, prioritization, and execution tracking activities.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of program and project management practices.
- Drive decision‑making across stakeholders by clearly framing tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations, and escalating with proposed paths forward.
- Partner closely with engineering, data and IT teams to understand system architecture, data flows, and technical dependencies to inform execution planning.
- Support and maintain program governance standards, reporting frameworks, operating cadences, and execution processes.
- Apply appropriate delivery methodologies based on the nature of the initiative, including agile practices where applicable.
- Ensure transparency into project status, risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and delivery timelines.
- Help drive operational efficiency and process improvement initiatives across teams.
- Maintain consistency in project documentation, reporting, and communication practices.
- Support software labor capitalization practices where applicable.
- Support agile development practices and contribute to continuous improvement of team processes.
- Operate within and help scale a structured program management framework, including governance cadences, standardized reporting, and execution rigor across Product & Engineering and IT.
- Produce clear and concise project and stakeholder updates, including dashboards and status reports.
- Drive consistent and effective use of Jira, Confluence and/or Asana for transparent project planning, reporting, project tracking and time tracking.
- Support and improve Tempo time tracking adoption.
- Prepare executive‑ready status reports, dashboards, meeting materials, and KPI tracking.
- Support cross‑program reporting and delivery visibility initiatives.
- Help improve workflows, reporting structures, and team collaboration practices.
- Identify and proactively manage project and program risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
- Coordinate mitigation plans and elevate critical concerns appropriately with clear recommendations and impact framing.
- Track cross‑functional dependencies to support successful delivery outcomes.
- Support teams in resolving blockers and navigating competing priorities.
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