Senior TPM Director: Scale Programs & Delivery

OpenTable; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Health benefits

Paid time off

Parental leave

Development dollars

Travel discounts

Employee resource groups

Job summary

OpenTable, a Booking Holdings company, seeks a Director of Technical Program Management in the San Francisco area. The role leads a mature TPM team, partnering with Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Security, and Infrastructure to align priorities and accelerate delivery across multiple verticals.

You will translate complex strategies into executable plans, design governance, and establish operating rhythms that scale to hundreds of engineers.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical program management experience spanning large-scale software development and cross-functional technical programs.
• 5+ years of experience formally leading, developing, and retaining engineering or program management teams within high-growth technology environments.
• Proven track record of managing technical program portfolios across complex, multi-entity organizations, including driving organizational transformation and designing cross-functional operating models.
• Demonstrated technical fluency and credibility, with the ability to engage deeply with engineering leaders on software architecture, dependencies, trade-offs, and release management.
• Exceptional executive presence and communication skills, with a verified ability to influence senior stakeholders and turn ambiguous priorities into concrete operational plans.

Responsibilities

• Executive Management & Collaboration: Serve as a strategic partner to senior leadership and cross-functional executives across Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Security, Infrastructure, and business teams to align priorities, manage dependencies, and establish high-stakes escalation paths.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Direct, coach, and elevate a mature group of individual contributor TPMs, fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture anchored in trust, psychological safety, mutual accountability, and long-term career growth.
• Operating Model Transformation: Design, iterate, and embed corporate operating rhythms, delivery mechanisms, planning frameworks, and risk management standards across large-scale technical portfolios to raise the organizational bar for execution quality.
• Strategic Execution & De-escalation: Translate broad executive narratives into actionable program structures, timelines, and measurable outcomes while defusing complex, organization-wide conflicts through fact-based option analysis.
• Process Optimization: Partner with engineering leadership to improve overall software delivery practices, technical planning, and developer productivity, utilizing modern tooling and data-driven metrics to mitigate hidden organizational drag.

Job description

OpenTable, a Booking Holdings company, seeks a Director of Technical Program Management in the San Francisco area. The role leads a mature TPM team, partnering with Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Security, and Infrastructure to align priorities and accelerate delivery across multiple verticals.

You will translate complex strategies into executable plans, design governance, and establish operating rhythms that scale to hundreds of engineers.