Senior Technical Program Manager

Jobtailor; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in California seeks a strong Product/Program Manager to lead the Software Development Life Cycle, coordinating timelines, milestones, and deliverables for Generative AI products. You will serve as a key liaison for final testing, deployment, and hypercare support.

You will translate technical tradeoffs for executives, drive data-informed decisions, and own UAT planning. You will lead the scrum, manage risks, and align monthly/quarterly objectives with engineering leadership, acting as

Qualifications

• Strong technical background with Generative AI products.
• Clear cross-functional communication with leadership across roles.
• Detail-oriented with ability to track low-level details for high-level decisions.
• Proficient in JIRA project management, dashboards, workflows, and queries.
• Startup experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage the SDLC for products from concept to deployment, including timelines and milestones.
• Translate technical tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders and executives.
• Leverage data to drive decisions and resolve conflicts.
• Define and execute comprehensive UAT plans with stakeholder sign-off.
• Own the scrum process and accelerate team velocity.
• Track progress, mitigate risks, and report to stakeholders.
• Set monthly and quarterly objectives with engineering leadership.
• Fill in gaps to support the project team.
• Ensure quality and completeness of requirement documents.
• Shield the team from distractions and maintain focus on priorities.
• Advocate for agile development best practices across the organization.

Skills

Clear communication

Detail-oriented

Analytical thinking

Effective change agent

Excellent execution

Startup experience

Tools

JIRA

Github

Superset

Tableau

Looker

Job description

• Manage the SDLC for our products from start to finish, including creating timelines and milestones for key product initiatives, breaking down product specifications into manageable development deliverables, and serving as a key point of contact for final testing, deployment, and hypercare support
• Understand technical tradeoffs and/or blockers and seamlessly communicate them to non-technical audiences, executive leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Utilize data to drive decision-making, conflict resolution, and creative problem-solving
• Define and execute comprehensive UAT plans, coordinating test cases, issue tracking, and stakeholder sign-off to ensure successful product readiness
• Own the scrum process and make improvements when necessary to accelerate team velocity
• Be accountable for schedules, track and report progress regularly to all stakeholders while mitigating risks along the way
• Work with engineering leadership to clearly define monthly, and quarterly objectives for engineering teams
• Act as the swiss army knife for your project team and step in to fill in any gaps not covered by team members
• Ensure the quality and completeness of product and project requirement documents
• Keep the focus on top priorities while shielding the team from distractions and interferences
• Be an advocate for agile development best practices across the organization

Requirements

• Strong technical background - You are comfortable using software tools like Github and can understand the technical details of Generative AI products without a steep learning curve
• Clear communicator - Can effectively influence and communicate cross-functionally with all roles and levels of management; Able to use clear, simple language to translate business needs into technical requirements
• Detail-oriented - You are an expert at tracking details at the lowest level and use these intricacies to inform high-level conversations
• Jira expert - You live and breathe JIRA; Be comfortable with JIRA project management from initializing sprints, building dashboards to visualize work, automating workflows, and querying to find specific artifacts
• Analytical - Ability to leverage intelligence dashboards in solutions such as Superset, Tableau, or Looker
• Effective change agent - You exhibit strong communication skills. You can build rapport and good working relationships with senior leaders and peers. You can separate facts from opinions, and take the perspectives of others and reach a workable solution. You are flexible in how you influence leaders to achieve the right outcomes
• Excellent executor - You effectively manage complex projects and demonstrate consistent attention to detail. In ambiguous situations, you are able to account for unknowns and recover from setbacks well
• Startup experience is strongly preferred

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in managing the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) while effectively communicating technical details to non-technical stakeholders. Proficient in utilizing project management tools like JIRA and data analytics platforms to drive decision-making and ensure successful product readiness.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• SDLC Management
• JIRA Project Management
• Agile Development Best Practices
• Data-Driven Decision Making
• Effective Communication

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• UAT Planning
• Technical Tradeoff Analysis
• Project Management
• Generative AI Understanding

Soft Skills

• Clear Communication
• Detail-Oriented
• Analytical Thinking
• Effective Change Agent
• Excellent Execution

Industry Keywords

• Agile Development
• Startup Experience
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Stakeholder Management
• Risk Mitigation

Tools & Technologies

• JIRA
• Github
• Superset
• Tableau
• Looker