Remote Senior Technical Program Manager, AI Auto Retail

Upstart; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

401(k) match

ESPP program

Health insurance

HSA contributions

Life insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

ERGs

Wellness allowance

Productivity allowance

Office perks

Job summary

Upstart is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for its Auto Retail team. You will own planning, execution, and outcomes for complex initiatives, partnering with Product and Engineering to align strategy, milestones, and delivery across multiple functions.

You’ll drive architecture discussions, manage risks, and establish lightweight workflows to improve coordination. The role is remote within the U.S., with compensation described as a base salary range and additional incentives.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in a Technical Program Management role, including ownership of complex, cross‑functional software initiatives.
• Experience translating ambiguous, multi‑stakeholder problems into executable plans with milestones, dependencies, risks, and clear ownership.
• Experience working in a TPM or similar role directly with product managers and engineering managers and their teams with a clear understanding of ownership, roles, and responsibilities.
• Technical fluency in software architecture, data models, third party vendor integrations, and data pipelines, with the ability to evaluate trade‑offs among technical approaches.
• Experience delivering initiatives across Product and Engineering while connecting program execution to measurable business or customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross‑functional software initiatives from alignment through delivery, coordinating across Product, Engineering, Servicing, Analytics, Machine Learning, Fraud, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and dealer‑facing partners.
• Translate ambiguous, multi‑stakeholder problem spaces into actionable plans with clear milestones, dependencies, risks, decision points, and owners.
• Partner with Product Managers on business strategy and prioritization, and with Engineering Managers and engineering teams on technical approaches and execution plans.
• Engage meaningfully in technical discussions by evaluating software architecture, data models, data movement, data pipelines, and trade‑offs among potential approaches.
• Identify blockers, clarify ambiguous ownership, surface downstream impacts early, and help teams resolve issues before they create delivery risk.
• Establish practical, lightweight ways of working that improve coordination and visibility across teams without creating unnecessary reporting or process overhead.

Skills

Technical TPM experience

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder alignment

Software architecture knowledge

Measurable outcomes delivery

Job description

Upstart is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for its Auto Retail team. You will own planning, execution, and outcomes for complex initiatives, partnering with Product and Engineering to align strategy, milestones, and delivery across multiple functions.

You’ll drive architecture discussions, manage risks, and establish lightweight workflows to improve coordination. The role is remote within the U.S., with compensation described as a base salary range and additional incentives.