Senior TPM, Ad Tech & Global Platform Strategy

SiriusXM; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

SiriusXM in Washington, DC is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager, Ad Technology to own strategy and delivery of large-scale cross-organizational initiatives across Ads Engineering, including ad-serving and real-time bidding modernization.

You will partner with engineering and product leadership to shape multi-year roadmaps, govern programs, and drive measurable outcomes like latency, monetization lift, and global rollout readiness.

Qualifications

• Requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 5 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 4 years experience; or equivalent experience, leading complex, enterprise-scale initiatives.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Demonstrated experience owning Enterprise program strategy — including multi-year roadmap partnership, portfolio-level decision support, and org-wide process improvement — not just execution.
• Significant experience in advertising technology, including ad-serving systems, real-time bidding, monetization platforms, data pipelines, and analytics systems.
• Proficient architectural literacy across multiple platform programs; ability to guide teams toward scalable solutions and evaluate cross-program constraints and tradeoffs.
• Executive-level communication skills; ability to craft scenario-based decision paths for senior engineering and business leadership and drive consensus through clarity.
• Proven ability to drive delivery across tightly coupled, interdependent systems at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with minimal oversight across ambiguous, high-stakes programs.
• Experience working across multiple Agile methodologies; proficiency with Jira and related program management tooling.
• Experience with automation and/or AI tools such as chatGPT, Gemini, etc.
• Strong propensity toward relationship building and influencing without authority.
• Experience in digital audio or media platforms preferred.
• Experience managing vendor or third-party technology integrations, including global or multi-region platforms preferred.
• Experience in high-availability, real-time systems environments preferred.
• Experience leading platform transformation or cross-organizational consolidation programs preferred.
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and end-to-end delivery of large, cross-organizational Ads Engineering initiatives (eg: broadcast ads digitization and modernization, ad insertion, consolidation across SiriusXM and Pandora tech stacks), from intake through launch.
• Function as Workstream lead for select cross-organizational initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams - from planning through launch.
• Maintain roadmap and delivery commitments for multiple teams within the Ad Technology organization, aligning Product, Engineering and GTM on execution plans, ROIs and outcomes (e.g., latency/SLAs, yield/monetization lift, reliability, rollout readiness).
• Coordinate program structure, milestones, sequencing, interdependencies, and success metrics in close partnership with engineering and product leadership.
• Proactively identify, forecast, and mitigate delivery risks and issues, communicating mitigation plans and status clearly to stakeholders.
• Use data to drive sustainable planning and transparent tradeoff discussions for new work or conflicting priorities.
• Provide portfolio-level visibility and structured analysis to advise on prioritization and resource allocation decisions.
• Drive high-stakes tradeoff decisions (scope, sequencing, resourcing, risk) with Director/VP level engineering and product leadership and be directly accountable for program-level outcomes and delivery across multiple teams.

Skills

Enterprise program strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Advertising technology

Systems thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Jira

AI tools (ChatGPT, Gemini)

Job description

SiriusXM in Washington, DC is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager, Ad Technology to own strategy and delivery of large-scale cross-organizational initiatives across Ads Engineering, including ad-serving and real-time bidding modernization.

You will partner with engineering and product leadership to shape multi-year roadmaps, govern programs, and drive measurable outcomes like latency, monetization lift, and global rollout readiness.