Senior Tech Program Manager (Remote) - Education & AI

Realityworks; Minneota (MN); Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

RW Thrive is seeking a Senior Program Manager to serve as the connective force behind major technology and software initiatives. You will establish delivery excellence across programs, provide portfolio visibility, and collaborate with leadership, internal teams, and external vendors to keep critical projects moving forward.

We value curiosity, decisive leadership, and the ability to manage complexity while building delivery discipline needed for scale.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of progressive experience managing complex technology, software delivery, or enterprise programs.
• Experience managing action registers, backlogs, integrated schedules, or similar delivery tracking systems.
• Experience running release-readiness, stage-gate, or comparable decision processes with documented exit criteria.
• Demonstrated experience reporting program status, risks, dependencies, and delivery confidence to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Translate leadership priorities and strategic objectives into executable program plans with defined owners, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and target dates.
• Build and manage integrated delivery schedules across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and external commitments.
• Own and maintain the action register as the single source of truth for commitments, including ownership, due dates, status, and accountability.
• Establish and lead a consistent delivery governance cadence, monitoring progress, resolving overdue items, and escalating exceptions or risks as needed.
• Define and manage release, decision, and delivery gates with clear criteria, target dates, and accountable decision-makers.
• Provide portfolio-level oversight of priorities, dependencies, risks, schedule conflicts, and competing demands to support leadership decision-making.
• Evaluate resource capacity across internal teams and external vendors, identify constraints and concentration risks, and recommend allocation adjustments to support delivery commitments.
• Establish and maintain consistent program management standards, processes, tools, reporting practices, and accountability frameworks across assigned programs.
• Provide functional leadership and guidance to project and program management resources, promoting consistent execution and delivery excellence.
• Coordinate launch, release-readiness, and go-live activities, ensuring critical dependencies, decisions, and commitments are actively managed.
• Develop and maintain evidence-based program reporting, leveraging SQL, spreadsheets, business intelligence tools, and other data sources to validate status and support decision-making.
• Continuously improve delivery processes, reporting, accountability, risk management, and program management practices as organizational needs evolve.

Skills

Program management

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

SQL / BI

Risk management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

Tools

SQL

Job description

RW Thrive is seeking a Senior Program Manager to serve as the connective force behind major technology and software initiatives. You will establish delivery excellence across programs, provide portfolio visibility, and collaborate with leadership, internal teams, and external vendors to keep critical projects moving forward.

We value curiosity, decisive leadership, and the ability to manage complexity while building delivery discipline needed for scale.