Senior Technical Program Manager
Los Angeles CA
Project Consulting
3/02/2025
$120 -145 Per Hr
JOB DESCRIPTION & OVERVIEW
The Sr. Technical Program Manager must be innovative, intellectually curious, results-oriented technology leader who will be responsible for driving the company product roadmap, software development and operations of systems. The Sr. TPM will guide the efforts of developers across multiple national locations.
The Senior TPM will be responsible for pragmatic visionary that can translate business needs into technology solutions that scale both technically and operationally. Responsible for driving quality and enabling technical innovation. This position will manage evolving / complex demands, including multiple projects with dependencies on other internal organizations. The Sr. TPM will draw on consumer feedback, usage and operational data, along with leading technology businesses to set and deliver on aggressive goals for adoption, operational performance, feature delivery, and revenue. The ideal Candidate for the consulting project will have:
- 6+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- 5+ years of technical program management experience
- Strong business and technical vision
- Results-oriented person with a focus on delivery
- 10 or more total years related experience
- Experience managing multiple large, cross functional projects in a matrixed organization
- Maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, leadership skills essential to successful program/project management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must
- Ability to drive tough decision making, balancing business goals, technical implications, and time to market
- Ability to work independently, excellent problem-solving skills
- Deep hands-on technical expertise
- Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.
- A strong track record of on-time project delivery for large, cross-functional projects.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Interact with Project Sponsors, other Technical Program Managers, and multiple development teams to define and deliver complex cross-functional projects.
- Drive large scale projects spanning teams from inception to conclusion, formulate the product vision, define user stories, research appropriate technical solutions.
- Clearly communicate vision, plans and project status to management and key technical and business stakeholders within the company.
- Work closely with the software development team on delivering high-quality solutions, and provide guidance regarding architecture, design, and priorities.
- Engage with other teams across the nation on projects, to build relationships and help identify existing technologies that can be leveraged to meet the team’s goals.
- Identify, assess and mitigate risks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs balancing the business needs versus constraints.
- Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders.
EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE
- MBA or Advanced degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- Must be technically credible to lead teams of world-class software engineers and be able to make the right design decisions and technology choices
- Business management or a related degree
- 7-10 years of related experience with large scale strategic planning within a disbursed organization.
CERTIFICATES and/or LICENSES
- PMP, SCRUM, AGILE CISSP preferred
- Blackbelt or Six Sigma preferred
- Scopes and manages the most strategic technical projects, with significant bottom-line impact.