Job Summary: As a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, you will lead media programs, influencing the teams' roadmap priorities and technical direction. This role combines strong technical understanding, program leadership, and agile delivery excellence. You will own end-to-end execution of critical programs, influence roadmap direction, manage cross-team dependencies and senior stakeholders, and mentor teams to raise execution maturity across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and collaboration
Lead large, complex technical programs from planning through delivery independently
Influence roadmap priorities by aligning stakeholders on objectives and outcomes
Coordinate across engineering, product, and business teams to manage dependencies and ensure timely execution
Facilitate cross-pod collaboration and alignment to maintain delivery momentum
Proactively plan for and mitigate risks, evaluating alternatives, quantifying trade-offs, and structuring communication plans
Apply Agile methodologies for iterative delivery, adaptive planning, and continuous improvement
Coach teams on Agile best practices and foster high Scrum maturity
Maintain sprint cadence and rigor through reviews, retrospectives, and OKR alignment
Drive pod-level accountability for JIRA hygiene, analytics reporting, and milestone tracking
Ensure data-driven decision-making using clear metrics, dashboards, and visual progress reporting
Regularly communicate program updates, decisions, and risks to leadership concisely and visually
Continuously improve internal processes to enhance team efficiency and delivery velocity
Act as a mentor for junior TPMs and team members to scale program management maturity
Skills & Attributes for success:
Deep technical understanding of scalable systems, with the ability to dive into architecture reviews, ask second-order questions, and push for scalable, resilient solutions
Highly structured thinker with the ability to break down ambiguous goals into executable plans, identify blind spots, and push for clarity in both direction and detail
Strong grasp of risk/reward tradeoffs, and comfort operating in fast-moving, high-stakes environments with shifting priorities and evolving context
Exceptional communicator, skilled in managing stakeholder expectations and aligning diverse teams on shared timelines, goals, and impact
Strong program management experience managing cross functional initiatives end to end and driving influence without authority
Strong experience leading complex cross-functional programs involving AI/ML and GenAI systems at scale.
Should have deep technical understanding of AI platforms, execution rigor, stakeholder management, and the ability to drive AI initiatives from strategy to production.
Experience with LLMs, AI infrastructure, model lifecycle management, and scalable delivery processes is highly preferred.
Expertise in Agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe) and tools like JIRA, Confluence
Preferred education & qualification:
A Bachelor's/Master’s degree with a minimum of 12 years of experience, including 3 to 4 years in a Program Management role within the consumer technology sector
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3+ years of experience is required.
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