North Star Staffing is seeking a highly experienced Technical Program Manager to lead and optimize a portfolio of data science initiatives. This role involves ensuring data-driven projects align with business objectives and are delivered with measurable impact, while managing cross-functional stakeholders and executive priorities.
Responsibilities:
- Drive execution and visibility across operational and transformative data science initiatives
- Partner with senior leadership to define long-term strategy, priorities, and focus areas
- Align technical roadmaps with organizational OKRs and business objectives
- Develop executive-ready reporting on milestones, KPIs, and success metrics
- Design and streamline project intake frameworks
- Balance resources across multiple teams and initiatives
- Improve project throughput, timeline adherence, and delivery efficiency
- Identify and mitigate delivery risks proactively
- Leverage advanced analytics to extract insights from structured and unstructured data
- Guide teams on modeling approaches, analytical design, and data visualization standards
- Apply emerging quantitative techniques to strengthen research and business conclusions
- Ensure analytical rigor and technical excellence across initiatives
- Partner with data scientists, engineers, product leaders, and executives
- Facilitate planning sessions and strategic discussions
- Drive alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ensure consistent communication across the organization
- Track progress against KPIs and portfolio-level objectives
- Support incident management and production-related escalations
- Improve systems, workflows, and portfolio management tools
- Establish scalable program management best practices
Requirements:
- 7–10 years of experience working with technical teams in data science, analytics, or program management
- Strong background in data analysis, modeling, and visualization
- Experience managing multiple concurrent technical projects
- Demonstrated ability to influence executive stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong strategic thinking and organizational prioritization skills
- Ability to thrive in high-growth, fast-paced environments
- Experience managing large-scale data science or AI portfolios
- Background in advanced analytics or quantitative research
- Familiarity with modern data ecosystems and experimentation frameworks
- Experience building or improving program management processes at scale