Technical Program Manager

About the role

We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Program Manager to lead strategic, large-scale engineering initiatives across multiple teams, systems, and business lines. In this role, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy and set the standard for program execution across the organization. You will serve as a trusted partner to senior engineering and product leaders, helping shape roadmaps, guide resourcing decisions, manage complex dependencies, and deliver programs with significant business impact. The ideal candidate combines strong technical intuition, organizational influence, executive presence, and a proven ability to deliver complex initiatives at scale.

Location: Onsite in Foster City, CA

Type: Contract

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end program management for large-scale, multi-team engineering initiatives, from strategy and planning through execution and delivery.
• Partner with VP- and Director-level engineering and product leaders to influence roadmaps, resourcing decisions, priorities, and execution strategies.
• Define, implement, and continuously improve program management frameworks, processes, tooling, and best practices across the engineering organization.
• Drive alignment across complex dependency landscapes involving multiple teams, systems, external partners, and competing priorities.
• Identify, assess, and proactively manage risks, escalations, trade-offs, and delivery constraints at the program and portfolio levels.
• Communicate clearly and confidently with executive audiences, translating technical complexity into business impact and business priorities into actionable technical objectives.
• Participate in architectural and technical scoping discussions, providing informed guidance on feasibility, sequencing, dependencies, and delivery risk.
• Establish operating rhythms, milestones, success metrics, and governance models that support predictable program execution.
• Bring clarity to ambiguous, fast-moving situations and help teams make sound, timely decisions.
• Use AI tools to evaluate technical designs, assess code changes, support decision-making, and improve program execution.
• Incorporate AI chatbots and agentic AI models into program planning, analysis, communication, and delivery workflows.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technical program management, with a demonstrated record of delivering complex, organization-wide engineering programs.
• Deep experience managing multi-team software programs across the full software development lifecycle.
• Experience leading large-scale platform, infrastructure, networking, wireless, or product engineering initiatives.
• A strong technical foundation and the ability to engage credibly in architectural discussions, understand system design trade-offs, and evaluate technical risk.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence without authority and communicate effectively with executive stakeholders.
• Experience building or improving program management processes, operating models, and tooling at an organizational level.
• Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity, create clarity, prioritize effectively, and make sound decisions under pressure.
• Practical experience using AI tools to support technical analysis, design evaluation, code-change assessment, and informed decision-making.