Staff Technical Program Manager

About the role

At Alteryx, we put data and AI to work for the intelligent enterprise. Alteryx One connects data, governed business logic, and AI-driven insights and actions in a scalable platform. We are looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager (P5) to lead the company's most strategic platform and trust transformation initiatives that drive business critical metrics. This role drives execution across multiple engineering organizations while influencing technical strategy, operating models, and organizational priorities that enable the long-term evolution of the Alteryx platform. As a Staff TPM, you will partner with Engineering, Product, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, SRE, and executive leadership to align investment strategy, resolve cross-organizational dependencies, establish scalable delivery mechanisms, and improve engineering effectiveness across the platform. This role is ideal for someone who combines deep technical expertise, exceptional program leadership, systems thinking, and executive influence to solve ambiguous, enterprise-scale challenges.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy and execution of the company's highest-priority platform and trust initiatives spanning multiple engineering organizations.
• Influence technical direction by partnering with architecture and engineering leaders to align long-term platform investments with business strategy.
• Drive portfolio-level planning, sequencing, and prioritization across multiple concurrent programs while balancing engineering capacity, customer commitments, and strategic objectives.
• Establish operating mechanisms that improve organizational planning, dependency management, decision making, and execution predictability.
• Lead executive governance forums, quarterly planning, investment reviews, and cross-functional decision-making.
• Anticipate organizational risks before they become delivery issues and proactively drive mitigation strategies.
• Improve engineering effectiveness through scalable program management practices, metrics, automation, AI-assisted workflows, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Coach and mentor Senior TPMs while establishing standards and best practices for technical program management across the organization.

Requirements

• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale technical programs across multiple engineering organizations.
• Proven ability to influence architecture, organizational priorities, and executive decision making without direct authority.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, infrastructure, security, identity, observability, and modern software architecture.
• Experience managing multi-year technology transformation initiatives involving complex organizational dependencies.
• Exceptional executive communication skills with experience presenting to VP and C-level audiences.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect technical investments to measurable customer and business outcomes.
• Expertise establishing program governance, delivery metrics, portfolio reporting, and organizational operating mechanisms.
• Experience leveraging AI to improve engineering planning, execution, communication, and operational efficiency.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading platform modernization or cloud transformation initiatives.
• Experience building or scaling TPM organizations.
• Experience developing engineering operating models.
• Enterprise SaaS, AI platform, analytics platform, or cloud infrastructure experience.
• Experience supporting mergers, platform integrations, or large-scale technical transformations.
• PMP, SAFe, Scrum, AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications.

Benefits

Alteryx offers a comprehensive benefits package for all Associates (details available via the company benefits portal). For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Alteryx will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. This position involves access to software/technology subject to U.S. export controls; any job offer is contingent upon the applicant's capacity to serve in compliance with those controls.