Director, Technical Program Management

About the role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director, Technical Program Management based in United States. This is a high-impact leadership opportunity to establish and scale a Technical Program Management function within a rapidly growing technology organization.

Responsibilities

• Establish a lightweight, scalable Technical Program Management operating model covering program planning, governance, dependency management, risk management, and executive visibility.
• Define consistent measures for program health, technical readiness, and launch readiness to enable proactive intervention and informed decision-making.
• Personally lead high-priority, technically complex initiatives across Product, Engineering, and broader business functions.
• Build integrated program plans that clearly define milestones, dependencies, sequencing, resource constraints, critical paths, and key decisions.
• Apply strong technical judgment to understand systems, challenge assumptions, identify hidden dependencies, and surface delivery risks early.
• Drive resolution of cross-functional blockers and ensure critical decisions are escalated and made at the appropriate level and time.
• Establish launch-readiness standards spanning technical, operational, clinical, regulatory, privacy, legal, support, and go-to-market considerations.
• Provide Product and Technology leadership with clear insight into portfolio health, trade-offs, shared constraints, sequencing, and upcoming decisions.
• Lead strategic programs requiring coordination across multiple teams and disciplines, including initiatives supporting patient retention and longitudinal care.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-impact TPM team while fostering a culture of accountability, technical curiosity, transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bring 10+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering program management, product development, or a closely related discipline.
• Have 2+ years of people leadership experience, ideally including the development and management of TPMs or other technical program leaders.
• Demonstrate experience building or significantly evolving program-management practices within a growing technology organization.
• Have a strong track record leading large, technically complex initiatives involving multiple engineering and product teams.
• Possess strong technical fluency and the ability to quickly understand systems and engage in discussions involving architecture, APIs, data flows, platforms, technical constraints, and engineering trade-offs.
• Demonstrate expertise in dependency management, technical planning, risk management, program governance, and launch readiness.
• Be highly effective at transforming ambiguity into clear structure while avoiding unnecessary process and bureaucracy.
• Possess excellent executive communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to distinguish issues requiring escalation from those best resolved at the team level.
• Be comfortable balancing strategic leadership responsibilities with hands-on ownership of critical programs.
• Experience in healthcare, health technology, regulated technology, or another complex operating environment is preferred.
• Experience working in a high-growth or scale-up technology environment is strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Base salary range of $190,000–$215,000 CAD, depending on experience and geographic location.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits, including mental health coverage.
• Whole-body health scans included as part of the employee benefits.
• Flexible vacation policy designed to support meaningful time away and employee wellbeing.
• Growth and development opportunities with flexibility to shape your career path.
• Regular opportunities for team connection, collaboration, and social interaction.
• Eligible Canadian employees can access RRSP and TFSA retirement savings plans with immediate, optional enrollment.
• Opportunity to contribute to a mission focused on improving healthcare through proactive, technology-enabled care.
• A collaborative, high-performing environment centered on innovation, ownership, patient impact, and continuous improvement.

Schedule

Not specified.

Pay

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