Senior Program Manager, Partner Programs

About the role

Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Manage, plan, and direct software and product development activities from launch to completion, with overall responsibility for delivering on time and at high quality.
• Own long-term partner integration roadmaps and the success of multiple partners in the Stellar ecosystem.
• Host and drive partner meetings with technical and business stakeholders.
• Identify and manage technical dependencies and blockers across partner and internal engineering teams.
• Maintain partner-related documentation, including milestone plans, dependencies, schedules, risks, and meeting notes.
• Measure program performance, analyzing the successful completion of short- and long-term goals against company and team OKRs.
• Define process frameworks, program plan templates, tools, and best practices that can be adopted throughout the organization.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience managing software development programs in the financial services industry, some of which took place in a blockchain startup or small-company environment.
• Comfort engaging in technical discussions — APIs, integration flows, system dependencies — enough to coordinate credibly with engineering, track technical risks and blockers, and translate fluidly between technical and business stakeholders.
• Familiarity with blockchain/crypto concepts, or a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on a complex, unfamiliar technical domain.
• A habit of using AI tools to work smarter — you look for ways to apply AI to your day-to-day, whether that's drafting and summarizing documentation, accelerating research, streamlining reporting, or automating repetitive workflows, and you're eager to help the team do the same.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent leadership skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with partners from various backgrounds and positions.
• Great organizational skills, including attention to detail, multitasking, and creating and instituting processes to streamline workflows.
• Experience with program and project management tools like Jira, Airtable, Asana, Confluence, and Google Suite.
• An independent nature and results-driven attitude — you're good at identifying priorities and working in an environment with dynamic objectives.
• A knack for problem-solving — you have an eye for untold problems in the program life cycle and create solutions to minimize or mitigate them.
• An aptitude for advocating for partners while supporting the company's mission.
• Willingness to travel as needed (mostly to the Americas/Europe).
• Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment with some level of ambiguity and wearing multiple hats.

Skills

• Blockchain/crypto concepts
• AI tools
• Program/project management tools

Benefits

We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $145,000 - $195,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and benefits:

• USA Benefits/Perks: Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents, Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break, Generous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents, Gym reimbursement ($80 per month), Life & ADD (up to $50K), Short & Long term disability, 401K with 4% match, Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts, Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution, Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution, Family building benefits through Kindbody, Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace), L&D budget of $1,500/year, Daily lunch and snacks in the office, Company retreats

Pay

Competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $145,000 - $195,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

Schedule

Not specified