Senior Technical Program Manager

Optomi; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Optomi is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to plan and execute programs spanning developer platforms and scale tools for internal engineers across the technology organization. The TPM collaborates with engineering managers, removing roadblocks, tracking progress, and communicating risks and dependencies to stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of technical project leadership, strong communication skills, and experience with distributed teams, cloud development, and agile

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing technical projects in fast-paced environments.
• Proven ability to plan, execute, and deliver cross-org initiatives.
• Strong written and verbal communication; adept at absorbing technical docs.
• Experience with distributed teams and cloud-based development.
• Knowledge of Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence) and agile practices.
• Ability to operate with ambiguity and drive clarity.

Responsibilities

• Define and represent project goals and plans; develop technical understanding.
• Remove roadblocks and drive teams toward commitments.
• Track progress and ensure on-time delivery.
• Provide concise status updates across formats and communicate risks.
• Facilitate technical and stakeholder meetings; summarize outcomes.
• Foster cross-team coordination and communication.
• Identify metrics to guide the project lifecycle.
• Assist with estimation and planning of team resources.
• Navigate competing priorities with agility.
• Lead teams through process improvements.
• Demonstrate tenacity and comfort with ambiguity.
• Work with distributed teams; use Atlassian, Google, Slack/Teams.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Agile methodologies

Scrum master

Technical literacy

Stakeholder management

Distributed teams

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Google Workspace

Slack

Microsoft Teams

CI/CD

Job description

This is a Senior Technical Program Manager will support the planning and execution of programs related to t developer platforms - tools and services for scale offered to internal engineers across the technology organization.

Our TPMs partner with engineering managers and play a critical role in structuring and executing impactful cross-org initiatives. TPMs have a high degree of technical literacy and a desire to learn more, both within their teams' product space and across the wider department. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, possess the ability to work through unknowns, identify paths to success to ensure delivery, and be able to autonomously work on multiple, critical assignments that span the department.

Responsibilities:

• Effectively define and represent projects goals and plan; develop fundamental technical understanding of the project deliverables
• Enhance team throughput by removing roadblocks and leveraging organizational connections while helping to drive teams towards commitments
• Track progress against deliverables and work closely with the team to ensure on-time delivery
• Share concise and effective status information across multiple reporting formats to keep stakeholders informed and proactively communicate risks, forecasts, and dependencies.
• Facilitate technical and stakeholder meetings; follow the discussions in order to summarize and capture outcomes
• Foster cross-team coordination and communication
• Identify, maintain, and visualize metrics to guide the project lifecycle
• Assist with estimation and planning of team resourcing, in conjunction with engineering team manager
• Navigate competing and dynamic priorities, balance competing requests with agility
• 7+ years of experience managing technical projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, developing and executing project plans and delivery commitments.
• Deep rooted passion and proven track record building motivated and collaborative teams
• Detail oriented and excellent communication skills; ability to follow technical discussions and absorb technical documentation
• Track record of creating and growing trusting, lasting professional relationships with diverse stakeholders, maturing teams' current engagements and advocating for future work.
• Experience in leading teams through improvement via process re-engineering
• Demonstrated tenacity and comfortable with ambiguity
• Tools expertise including Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence), Google Suite, and Slack/MS Teams or similar
• Experience working with distributed teams and/or distributed organizations
• Working understanding of cloud-based development and a desire to know more
• Experience as a scrum master and knowledge of agile methodologies
• Exposure to modern DevOps and SRE practices,CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Observability, Availability, etc.