- Own and deliver ambiguous, large-scale programs spanning multiple organizations and technology domains — defining mission, objectives, and measurable success criteria while driving alignment across business and engineering stakeholders throughout the end-to-end program lifecycle
- Analyze system architectures and engineering organizational structures to identify dependencies, risks, and opportunities, partnering with engineering leaders to ensure solutions scale effectively and meet both functional and non-functional requirements
- Drive clarity and crisp decision-making in highly ambiguous environments — providing context on business and technology trade-offs, questioning assumptions, and prioritizing work that delivers the highest customer value, even when the business strategy, architectural approach, or problem definition may not yet exist
- Translate complex AECO workflows and customer needs into clear technical requirements and implementation plans, partnering with product managers to inform and execute the product and technical roadmap
- Influence and advise VP-level leadership across data center engineering organization on technical investment decisions, organizational alignment, and long-term platform strategy — translating technical complexity into actionable insights that inform resource allocation and strategic direction
- Establish metrics, dashboards, and regular reporting mechanisms to provide stakeholders and senior leadership clear insight into program health, delivery timelines, and business impact
- Force-multiply across the TPM community by proactively identifying gaps between teams, processes, and systems, and establishing frameworks, mechanisms, and best practices that elevate the effectiveness of multiple teams and programs, reduce failure modes, and strengthen operational health
A day in the life
You start your morning reviewing program metrics and identifying areas that need attention. By mid-morning, you are leading a cross-team design review, asking pointed questions about architectural trade-offs and helping engineers converge on a path forward. After lunch, you draft a program update narrative for leadership, distilling weeks of progress into a concise story. Later, you connect with partner teams to unblock a dependency and refine the delivery timeline. Throughout, you mentor a fellow program manager and carve out time to evaluate whether a new generative AI tool could streamline your reporting workflows.
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
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USA, WA, Seattle – 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually