Senior Technical Program Manager – Platform

Role Overview

• Partner with the Engineering Managers to plan product expansion roadmaps for platform engineering.
• Lead end-to-end planning and delivery for complex cross-functional programs with clear goals, timelines, owners, and success metrics.
• Partner with Principal Engineers, Staff Engineers, and senior engineering leadership to develop plans to scale our systems and services, and in some cases
• help break our monolithic backend into multiple services.
• Build and maintain program plans, RAID logs, status updates, and executive-ready communication materials.
• Build consensus and deliver high-value outcomes.
• Develop project plans across teams as needed within the Product and Engineering department (DevOps, IT, Product, Engineering, and QA), as well as cross-functional teams extending throughout the company.
• Partner with project-specific stakeholders throughout the company to capture details and perform successful change management with third-party development partners.
• Utilize lifecycle data to proactively raise risks and trade-off decisions to key stakeholders. Actively mitigate these with scope control and resourcing.
• Identify and resolve all cross-organizational dependencies and potential blockers.
• Ensure all status materials and roadmap documents are compiled, aggregated and complete and remain well-maintained.
• Drive improvement and iteration on the platform engineering roadmap.
• Facilitate iteration planning, progress tracking, retrospectives and reporting.
• Develop key metrics to track the effectiveness of the distribution of work to third party partners.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience performing cross-functional technical project management, preferably in a startup environment.
• You have 3+ years of experience managing or implementing an agile, scrum-based team of teams framework that influences a 50+ person engineering organization.
• You understand and are passionate about all things platform engineering throughout an organization: best practices, testing, and training.
• You have a deep understanding of end-to-end architecture and the software engineering life cycle.
• You understand the basics of cloud infrastructure delivery and associated key metrics.
• You have excellent leadership skills with superior written and verbal communication skills.
• You like to solve problems and are always looking for ways to improve team performance.
• You know how to keep teams organized and on track.
• You are comfortable in fast-paced and complex environments.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• Expected Base Salary Range: $149,450
• $195,375 (depending on candidate location and experience)
• Ongoing training and growth opportunities.
• A "Best Place to Work" winner multiple times where we focus on creating a great employee experience.
• Rock solid medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Mental Health Coverage
• we offer several programs to support your mental health and wellness goals.
• Unlimited Paid Vacation. We expect you to work hard, but still enjoy your personal life
• 7 weeks of baby bonding time for all new parents (within the first year of birth or adoption), 8 Weeks of Paid Pregnancy Leave.
• 401(k) Matching
• Employer-contributing student loan assistance program or continuing education reimbursement program
• Employee Stock Incentive Plan.
• Pet insurance for your fur babies
• Consistent & fair leadership: we’ll share info, set clear goals, show you respect, and treat everyone fairly.
• Enough freedom to spread your wings while still holding you accountable.