Technical Program Manager, Payments

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, and they are seeking a Technical Program Manager to enhance the stability and execution model of their engineering teams. The role involves driving the engineering roadmap, defining requirements, and ensuring effective operations within the engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the engineering roadmap, strategy and execution of critical functional initiatives
• Define requirements & technical roadmap with engineering, product, and cross functional teams to launch and unlock programs lightning speed
• Clearly communicate roadmap, progress, and insights to key teams and stakeholders
• Do whatever it takes to ensure the engineering team is operating effectively, unblock them and make sure they can move at a rapid pace
• Take ownership of any major blocker to the company’s success
• Drive strategic initiatives across the company as needed

Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field
• Experience leading complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible technical and operational initiatives across the company
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, identify trade-offs, and make decisions with limited information in high-pressure situations
• Proven ability to develop sound research methodologies and collect, synthesize, analyze, and interpret data
• Experienced in design, and hypothesis driven product development
• Entrepreneurial drive to achieve stretch goals in an innovative fast-paced environment
• Startup experience at a high-growth company
• Experience in the payments domain is a plus