Technical Program Manager: GenAI & Digital Transformation

Kraft Heinz; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

7% 401(k) matching

BRGs for diversity and inclusion

Total rewards package

Job summary

Kraft Heinz in Chicago is seeking a Technical Program Manager to oversee end-to-end delivery of key digital products and transformation initiatives, including GenAI solutions, across multiple business functions. You will bridge product strategy, engineering, and enterprise architecture to deliver scalable capabilities.

The role requires coordinating with executive sponsors, managing budgets, and ensuring programs meet timelines, budgets, and governance standards, while driving measurable

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex technology programs or digital transformations.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale software, cloud, data, AI or digital product initiatives.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in matrixed organizations.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, agile delivery, architecture principles, and platform ecosystems.
• Experience with GenAI, advanced analytics, data platforms, or machine learning solutions.
• Experience managing external system integrators and technology vendors.
• Experience managing executive stakeholders and enterprise governance processes.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and influence skills.

Responsibilities

• Support role on complex enterprise programs spanning multiple business functions, geographies, and technology domains.
• Translate business goals into executable technical roadmaps and delivery strategies.
• Drive prioritization decisions, sequencing, funding discussions, and value realization planning.
• Assist with delivery planning from discovery through deployment and value realization.
• Establish and manage program plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, assumptions, and resource requirements.
• Partner with engineering and architecture teams to validate solution approaches and technical feasibility.
• Lead technical design reviews and execution planning, and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and operational requirements.
• Build partnerships with executive sponsors, functional leaders, and technology teams, and communicate program status, risks, decisions, and value delivery to senior leadership.
• Manage program budgets, vendor engagements, and investment plans.
• Establish KPIs, success criteria, and outcome measurement frameworks.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Agile delivery

GenAI

Cloud

Data platforms

Machine learning

Executive stakeholders

Communication

Job description

Kraft Heinz in Chicago is seeking a Technical Program Manager to oversee end-to-end delivery of key digital products and transformation initiatives, including GenAI solutions, across multiple business functions. You will bridge product strategy, engineering, and enterprise architecture to deliver scalable capabilities.

The role requires coordinating with executive sponsors, managing budgets, and ensuring programs meet timelines, budgets, and governance standards, while driving measurable