Technical Program Manager

Technical Program Manager

Salary: $101,250-$135,000

We’re looking for a Technical Program Manager who thrives at the intersection of engineering complexity and organizational clarity. You’ll work directly with engineering directors, platform leads, and cross‑functional stakeholders to drive programs that span multiple teams — ensuring alignment, surfacing blockers, and keeping high‑priority initiatives moving.

This is not a coordination role. You’ll be expected to develop deep technical fluency in a modern platform engineering environment — including infrastructure, developer experience, and cloud‑native systems — and use that fluency to ask better questions, identify risks early, and translate complex technical work into clear executive narratives.

• Program Delivery: Own end‑to‑end delivery of large, multi‑team technical programs across platform infrastructure, developer experience, and cloud enablement.
• Define program structure: Milestones, dependencies, and success criteria in collaboration with engineering and product leads.
• Maintain program health: Proactively surface risks, dependencies, and blockers to the right stakeholders at the right time.
• Drive accountability without authority: Build trust with engineering teams while holding commitments firm.

• Fluency in platform technologies: (Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure) to engage credibly with engineers and leads.
• Participate in architecture reviews, sprint ceremonies, and design discussions: not as a scribe, but as a contributor to program‑level thinking.
• Identify technical debt and complexity: that creates delivery risk; help shape sequencing decisions accordingly.

• Translate program status: and engineering progress into clear, concise communication for senior leadership and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Prepare and facilitate executive‑level reviews: QBRs and steering committee meetings.
• Build and maintain relationships: with engineering leads, product managers, and business partners across the organization.

• Identify gaps: in how programs are planned, tracked, or communicated — and drive improvements without adding bureaucratic overhead.
• Support adoption: of program management frameworks, templates, and tooling across a platform engineering organization.
• Contribute to OKR process: by helping teams translate strategic intent into measurable, deliverable outcomes.

• 5+ years of program or project management experience in a software engineering or infrastructure environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage large, complex programs spanning multiple engineering teams with competing priorities.
• Strong technical background — you don’t need to write production code, but you must be able to engage deeply with engineers on technical tradeoffs, architecture decisions, and delivery constraints.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; proven ability to tailor message and level of detail to the audience.
• Experience working in agile/scrum environments; comfortable with Jira, Confluence, and similar tools.
• Proven track record of operating effectively in matrixed organizations with distributed, cross‑functional teams.

• Experience in IoT, connected systems, or cloud‑native platform engineering environments.
• Familiarity with infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform), container orchestration (Kubernetes), or Git Ops (ArgoCD).
• Experience driving developer experience (Dev Ex), developer productivity, or internal platform initiatives.
• PMP, PMI‑ACP, SAFe, or equivalent certification.
• Background in building internal platform‑as‑a‑product programs or developer self‑service tooling.