Sr. Technical Program Manager

UnitedMasters | Translation

$160K — $190K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience as a technical program manager in a similar industry
  • Demonstrated understanding of project management methodologies and tools
  • Experience launching high-quality user-facing technologies
  • Ability to manage cross-organizational dependencies effectively
  • Expertise in agile project management tools like Jira
  • Proven capability to deliver product roadmaps with limited supervision
  • Strong technical understanding to contribute meaningfully to technical discussions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the management of multiple software development work streams
  • Proactively identify and resolve blockers affecting feature development
  • Manage dependencies across scrum teams and strategic partners
  • Drive alignment on commitments across teams to achieve project goals
  • Assist teams in recovering from missed deadlines by realigning plans
  • Act as a key point of contact for your vertical in collaboration with PM and EM
  • Facilitate structured discussions to tackle ambiguous challenges and push for solutions.
  • Hold teams accountable for commitments and ensure reasonable delivery timelines.

Benefits

  • Bonus and stock options depending on performance
  • 401(k) match to support retirement savings
  • Opportunities for career advancement and mentoring
  • Location-based salary adjustments that reflect market conditions
  • Flexible work environment fostering creativity and innovation.
Full Job Description
About This Role

As a Senior TPM at UnitedMasters, you'll manage the overarching portfolio of programs within your workstreams. You'll have a large scope of responsibility and influence; partnering with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, UX Designers, as well as cross functional stakeholders in Marketing, Legal, Finance, etc. to build products that align with the organization's goals. You'll understand technical concepts and meaningfully contribute to conversations about technical solutions while being responsible for delivering the roadmap with limited supervision. Key competencies for this role include: influencing and leadership, program planning, driving results, managing ambiguity, and ensuring accountability. This role requires five years of experience as a TPM in a similarly sized company or industry.
What You'll Do
  • Lead the day-to-day program management of multiple work streams across the software development lifecycle, including product strategy, technical design, implementation, experimentation, and go-to-market (GTM)
  • Ensure feature development tracks toward deliverables; proactively identify and resolve blockers, including dependencies on other teams
  • Manage cross-team dependencies across other scrum teams, strategic partners, Design, and QA
  • Drive alignment on commitments across multiple teams (Tech, Marketing, Business Development, QA) to achieve goals
  • Assist teams in getting back on track when deadlines are missed by creating and socializing new plans to ensure alignment across engineering teams and stakeholders
  • Serve as a reliable representative and point of contact for your vertical alongside the PM and EM
  • Bring structure to your workstreams by working through ambiguous situations, gathering appropriate stakeholders and owners to discuss issues, and pushing for solutions
  • Hold multiple teams accountable to their commitments, creating reasonable delivery timelines for upstream work (UX, PRD, Data Science) and downstream work (GTM)
  • Manage, motivate, and hold accountable engineering leads and team members
  • Provide technical transparency through clear and concise summaries for the programs you own to a wide range of audiences, both technical and non-technical
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Demonstrated understanding of established project management methodologies and tools to develop and execute product roadmaps
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate GenAI tools into day-to-day program management, including generating AI-assisted first drafts of program artifacts, redesigning manual workflows into AI-first mechanisms, and synthesizing data signals to surface risks, decisions, and trade-offs
  • Strong technical understanding that enables meaningful contribution to conversations about technical solutions
  • Ability to balance shifting priorities and pivot when necessary
  • Excellent communication (verbal and written), presentation, organizational, and planning skills
  • Ability to influence, connect, and collaborate with a variety of groups and personalities, both technical and non-technical, at all levels of the organization
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, and able to adapt to the needs and styles of other teams and organizations
  • Self-starter with creative problem-solving skills and the ability to work with limited supervision
Minimum Qualifications
  • 3+ years of experience as a technical program manager in a similarly sized company or industry
  • Experience launching user-facing technologies at a high quality bar
  • Experience managing stakeholders and cross-organizational dependencies
  • Proven track record of delivering product roadmaps with limited supervision
  • Experience using agile project management tools, such as Jira
Preferred Qualifications
  • Adept at building relationships cross-functionally and gaining alignment with business partners
  • Experience mentoring junior team members and/or cross-functional collaborators
  • Broad understanding of the music technology space, with the ability to go deep into the details, to think big, and to roll up your sleeves
Salary Hiring Range: $160,000 - $190,000 (SF)

As a company, we have a location-based strategy, which means the salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired in another location. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide (e.g. bonus, stock options, 401(k) match, etc.)

Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.

The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.

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