Senior Technical Program Manager – Forward Deployed

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Remote; USD 163,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Equity for full-time employees

Learning & development stipend

Parental leave

Job summary

Docker is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager for Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE). You will define standards, manage commitments, and lead a small team of senior engineers embedded with strategic customers.

You will drive operating rhythms, staffing, and risk management, ensuring alignment across Product, Engineering, and customer stakeholders. The role requires a deep technical background in cloud platforms and containers, executive communication, and the ability to operate

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical program management experience.
• 4+ years at Staff level or above.
• Experience delivering commitments for enterprise customers.
• Strong technical background in cloud platforms and containers.
• Executive communication skills and stakeholder management.
• Comfort working autonomously in a distributed, remote-first company.

Responsibilities

• Define delivery standards, engagement model, and quality bar across customers and regions.
• Own FDE capacity management and staffing plans with leadership and recruiting.
• Track commitments, dependencies, and surface risks early.
• Represent FDE with Product and Engineering leadership and drive cross-team collaboration.
• Set priorities for junior TPMs and mentor them in program management.

Skills

Technical program management

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Cloud platforms

Containers

Data-driven decision making

Enterprise customer experience

Autonomy in distributed teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Docker is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager for Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE). You will define standards, manage commitments, and lead a small team of senior engineers embedded with strategic customers.

You will drive operating rhythms, staffing, and risk management, ensuring alignment across Product, Engineering, and customer stakeholders. The role requires a deep technical background in cloud platforms and containers, executive communication, and the ability to operate