Senior Technical Program Manager

WEX Inc; Portland (ME); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

WEX Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager in Portland, ME, to drive end-to-end initiatives within the TPMO.

You will enable teams to plan, de-risk, and execute critical projects while coordinating across technology and digital leadership to ensure successful delivery and alignment with business priorities. In this role, you will drive cross-functional planning, manage dependencies, and monitor progress with a focus on internal tooling enhancements for WEX employees.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering end-to-end technology initiatives.
• Ability to coordinate across technology teams and product partners.
• Strong risk and dependency management skills.
• Experience improving internal tooling and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical implementation programs and workstreams.
• Plan and align program increments with business goals across your portfolio.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership, solution architects, and product partners.
• Monitor progress and surface risks to stakeholders for timely course corrections.
• Engage with Technology, Product, and Architecture for updates and visibility.
• Identify risks and implement mitigation strategies with leaders.
• Ensure data hygiene and transparent reporting in Jira.

Skills

Technical fluency

Program planning

Program management

Execution management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Dependency management

Tooling & data hygiene

Tools

Jira

Atlassian Suite

Job description

About us

WEX is a global commerce platform that helps businesses solve operational complexities like employee benefits, managing and mobilizing fleets, and streamlining payments.

With over 5,500 employees, we work with large and small companies in more than 200 countries and territories, and can tailor our services to meet the unique needs of their businesses.

About the opportunity

A Technical Program Manager is a key partner to the Technology leaders and their Digital leadership counterparts in driving end-to-end outcomes. You will be responsible for driving delivery on key initiatives within and across Technology Departments. As a Senior TPM at WEX, you will be responsible for enabling your teams and partners to plan, de-risk, and execute critical initiatives while reporting on progress, coordinating across technology teams, and ensuring project financial health. This role will focus primarily on a portfolio of work, and execution of projects within that, to enhance internal tooling and services for WEX employees.

About the Team

The Technical Program Management Office (TPMO) is a strategic function of the Technology Innovation & Strategic Operations (TISO) department within WEX. Our mission is to accelerate WEX's product innovation velocity by optimizing how we deliver technology.

As part of the TPMO, you will work closely with Technology and Digital leadership to enable seamless execution of strategic priorities. We drive impact by aligning teams across departments, supporting proactive planning, risk mitigation, and cross-functional coordination to ensure successful delivery of critical initiatives. If you are passionate about systems thinking, innovation, and making technology delivery a competitive advantage, this team is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Fluency: Demonstrate strong technical competency in relevant technologies and systems to effectively communicate with engineering teams, understand technical challenges, and make informed recommendations and escalations.
• Program Planning/Continuous Planning: Based on Product and Technology leadership direction and priorities, facilitate ongoing planning sessions to adjust priorities and ensure continuous alignment with business goals within and across your portfolio. This will require close cross-functional partnership with technology team leaders, solution architects, and product partners. Ensure alignment of program increments with overall business goals and priorities. Encourage adaptive planning to respond to changing delivery and project requirements.
• Program Management: Own and drive end-to-end technical implementation programs and workstreams focused on enhancements to internal tooling for WEX employees. Your work will be critical to creating operational efficiencies within the organization and to execute against several key strategic focus areas. You'll create detailed work breakdowns, milestones, risks, success metrics, and deliverables for key initiatives in these areas, and execute multi-quarter roadmaps in partnership with engineering leadership. On an ongoing basis, plan, support and execute against a roadmap of enhancements to these systems, tools, and processes.
• Execution Management: In support of the Tech Lead, monitor progress and recommend necessary adjustments to surface risks of program execution to key stakeholders in a targeted and timely way, with the goal of course correction. Facilitate these course corrections, as needed.
• Stakeholder Management: Engage with stakeholders - Technology, Product, Solution Architecture, among others - at all levels to ensure visibility, provide updates, and address concerns. Facilitate communication between teams, ensuring transparency and alignment. Provide clear, consistent, and timely information flow and reports out on status.
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies in partnership with accountable Tech and Product leaders. Monitor program risks and implement corrective actions as necessary. Escalate to senior leadership as appropriate.
• Dependency Management: Identify, document, and manage dependencies across multiple projects, technologies, and teams. Proactively coordinate with stakeholders to ensure that dependencies are clearly understood, tracked, and addressed in a timely manner to minimize risks and avoid delays.
• Tooling and Data Hygiene: Accordingly, ensure the use of standard project management tools - ideally within the Atlassian suite - and maintain high standards of data hygiene to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and integrity. Avoid duplication of administrative effort. As a part of Jira stewardship, support accurate and transparent reporting and