Principal Technical Program Manager

Requirements

• 7+ years in technical program management, 3+ at principal / staff level
• Track record delivering large, complex programs in engineering-led organizations
• Experience owning or co-owning quarterly and annual engineering roadmap planning
• Strong command of Agile, SAFe, or equivalent delivery frameworks
• Proven ability to align engineering and product roadmaps across competing priorities
• Experience influencing VP+ stakeholders without direct authority
• Fluency with delivery metrics: DORA, SPACE, cycle time, deployment frequency
• Deep experience with Jira, Confluence, and Atlassian-native workflows

Roles and Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery of 2–3 strategic programs spanning engineering, product, and cross-functional teams — from scoping through to measurable outcomes.
• Build and maintain trust with senior engineering and product leaders by providing reliable, well-structured program oversight that surfaces the right information at the right time.
• Drive clarity in ambiguous situations — breaking down complex, multi-team initiatives into structured plans with clear ownership, milestones, and success criteria.
• Identify risks early, drive decisions to closure, and escalate the right things to the right people without over-engineering the process.
• Lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, design, data, and security
• Build program dashboards and reporting cadences that give leadership a clear, honest picture of portfolio health without creating unnecessary overhead for delivery teams.
• Shape and maintain a program governance model that scales — decision rights, escalation paths, steering cadences — tailored to program complexity rather than one-size-fits-all.
• Contribute to the broader TPM community by developing reusable patterns, playbooks, and frameworks that raise the floor for program delivery across the org.