Senior TPM - Backend & Platform for Global EV Apps

Drivemode; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Bonus program

Job summary

Drivemode, a Honda-backed startup, seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager to own delivery for backend and platform systems powering Honda’s next-generation mobile companion apps. This hands-on TPM role sits at the center of mobile, backend, QA, and regional teams, emphasizing clarity in inputs, ownership, and readiness signals before releases.

You will drive execution discipline, align on milestones, and surface risks early with clear mitigation plans, building execution artifacts and ensuring

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Technical Program Management or equivalent roles in software environments.
• Strong technical fluency with backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Proven ability to drive execution across Product, Engineering, and QA.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery for backend and platform initiatives supporting mobile applications across regions.
• Drive execution discipline by enforcing clear requirements and ownership, dependency visibility, and readiness signals before work is released.
• Partner with backend engineers to define system boundaries, interfaces, and milestones; surface risks with mitigation plans.
• Coordinate across mobile, backend, QA, and regional stakeholders to ensure traceability from implementation to release.
• Maintain execution hygiene in Jira, reflecting scope, status, dependencies, readiness, and release tracking.
• Translate complex technical realities into clear status updates and tradeoffs for leadership and partners.
• Build and evolve artifacts (plans, trackers, dashboards, metrics) to support decision-making.
• Identify and eliminate delivery bottlenecks by improving processes and cross-team communication.
• Support production readiness by considering reliability, scalability, and compliance in delivery plans.

Skills

Technical Program Management

Backend APIs

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Multi-region delivery

Tools

Jira

Job description

Drivemode, a Honda-backed startup, seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager to own delivery for backend and platform systems powering Honda’s next-generation mobile companion apps. This hands-on TPM role sits at the center of mobile, backend, QA, and regional teams, emphasizing clarity in inputs, ownership, and readiness signals before releases.

You will drive execution discipline, align on milestones, and surface risks early with clear mitigation plans, building execution artifacts and ensuring