Senior Technical Program Manager, Gist Answers

Responsibilities

• Drive execution of large, cross-team engineering initiatives spanning multiple sub-teams.
• Cook up engineering workstreams and ensure alignment on priorities, timelines, and deliverables.
• Prioritize requirements from our business partners to the engineering team.
• Partner with engineering leads to coordinate planning across teams.
• Translate roadmap goals into structured execution plans with clear sequencing.
• Prioritize initiatives based on technical dependencies, partner priorities, team capacity, and organizational goals.
• Build and maintain dependency maps across teams, services, and infrastructure components.
• Identify execution risks early and coordinate mitigation strategies.
• Manage program execution to ensure milestones reflect realistic engineering sequencing and delivery timelines.
• Provide clear written and verbal updates on execution status, risks, and key decisions.
• Employ Agentic AI productivity tools to drive key processes.
• Anticipate bottlenecks and sequencing conflicts before they impact delivery.
• Continuously identify opportunities to remove friction from the development and deployment pipeline, enabling engineering teams to ship faster while maintaining reliability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technical program management or complex project leadership.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated success coordinating large cross-team technical initiatives.
• Strong ability to manage multiple complex dependencies simultaneously.
• Familiarity with engineering workflows, system design discussions, and technical delivery processes.
• Experience using Linear, Notion, Confluence, or similar engineering tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear execution plans, document key decisions, and provide structured updates on progress, risks, and dependencies.