Strategic Tech Program Lead – Value Stream Delivery

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead and optimize large-scale technical programs across cross-functional teams in the US. You will drive program lifecycle improvements, collaborate with engineering, product, and analytics leaders, and guide senior leadership on strategic decisions.

The role demands exceptional communication, planning, and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on delivering high-impact projects within a fast-paced media technology environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Proven ability to facilitate effective communication across disparate teams.
• Strong planning, delivery, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and meeting facilitation, esp. with senior leadership.
• Formal project management certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead adoption of Value Stream Management and improve program lifecycle for cross-functional strategic initiatives.
• Drive the largest, most strategic, highest-complexity technical programs.
• Own execution and delivery of high-profile technical, product, or software development projects from start to finish.
• Partner with engineering, product management, analytics leaders, TPMs, and technical leads.
• Forecast project risks, analyze blockers, and drive resolutions.
• Develop and execute change management and communication plans.
• Report progress and raise issues to stakeholders and executives.
• Document decisions, accomplishments, problems, plan changes, and forward plans.
• Lead organization-level technical discussions and drive decisions.
• Assist with project/program triage and make recommendations to senior leadership.
• Serve as SME and guidance resource for program management.
• Define, optimize, and manage Agile project management processes at team-of-teams level.
• Manage capacity across teams to balance priorities.
• Fill gaps across roles as an adaptive problem solver.
• Foster collaboration, transparency, autonomy, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Potentially manage smaller teams of professional employees.

Skills

Agile Project Management

Technical Program Management

Change Management

Communication Skills

Data Platforms Expertise

Education

BA/BS or equivalent experience

Tools

Agile Methodologies

Media Technology Tools

Development Tools

Deployment Practices

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead and optimize large-scale technical programs across cross-functional teams in the US. You will drive program lifecycle improvements, collaborate with engineering, product, and analytics leaders, and guide senior leadership on strategic decisions.

The role demands exceptional communication, planning, and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on delivering high-impact projects within a fast-paced media technology environment.