Senior Technical Program Manager

About the role

Drivemode, a part of Honda, is seeking a visionary and results-driven Senior Technical Program Manager to own and drive delivery for complex backend and platform systems that power Honda’s next-generation mobile companion applications.

This role sits at the center of mobile, backend, QA, and regional teams, and is ideal for someone who believes that great execution starts with clarity: clear inputs, clear ownership, and clear readiness signals before work enters a release.

This is a hands-on, execution-focused TPM role with real system ownership, technical depth, and a defined growth path toward Staff Technical Program Manager as scope and impact expand.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery for backend and platform initiatives supporting mobile applications across regions.
• Drive execution discipline by enforcing clear requirements and ownership, dependency visibility, and explicit readiness signals before work is committed to a release.
• Partner deeply with backend engineering teams to clarify system boundaries, interfaces, and constraints; align on technical milestones and delivery expectations; and surface risks early with clear mitigation plans.
• Cook up coordination across mobile, backend, QA, and regional stakeholders to ensure requirements are traceable through implementation, validation, and release.
• Own execution hygiene and accuracy for backend-related work, ensuring Jira reflects reality across scope, status, dependencies, readiness, and release tracking — and stepping in directly when signal or data quality breaks down.
• Translate complex technical realities into clear, honest status, risks, and tradeoffs for leadership and external partners.
• Build and evolve execution artifacts (plans, trackers, dashboards, metrics) that reflect reality and enable decision-making.
• Identify and eliminate delivery bottlenecks by improving processes, tooling, and cross-team communication.
• Support production readiness by ensuring reliability, scalability, and compliance considerations are accounted for in delivery plans.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Program Management, or equivalent roles in software-driven environments.
• Strong technical fluency, including hands-on experience working with backend services and APIs, distributed or asynchronous systems, and mobile <--> backend integrations.
• Proven ability to work closely with engineers and architects, understand technical tradeoffs, and ask the right technical questions.
• Demonstrated experience driving execution across Product, Engineering, and QA.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an emphasis on clarity and precision.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience as a software engineer, system architect, or technical lead.
• Experience working on platform, infrastructure, or integration-heavy systems.
• Familiarity with identity, subscriptions, notifications, or service-oriented products.
• Experience working in multi-region or global delivery environments.
• Japanese language proficiency is a plus, but not required; the role does not require fluency.
• Automotive, IoT, or connected-device experience is a plus (not required).

Pay

$124,000 - $182,000 a year

This is the position's total compensation package including the company's bonus structure. This position also comes with full benefits.

Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to demonstrated skill set, years and depth of relevant experience, and some role-dependent factors.

We welcome direct conversations with each candidate about compensation in all of our initial calls.

Benefits

EEOC Drivemode is proud of a very diverse team with employees coming from 5 continents/20 countries as of today. Diversity in our workplace has played an important part in our success; we recognize each employee’s unique background, knowledge, experiences, ideas, and viewpoints which are all critical in developing a product that has the greatest impacts on drivers all over the world.

Drivemode provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or any other characteristics that make you unique.