Senior Technical Program Manager

Product and operating judgment

• Frame customer, user, editorial, operational, or business problems before converging on solutions.
• Partner with Product and Design on outcomes, success measures, experience principles, scope boundaries, and credible paths to value.
• Pressure-test prioritization using customer impact, strategic fit, technical leverage, cost, risk, reversibility, and opportunity cost.
• Translate product strategy into delivery approaches covering discovery, design, engineering, operational readiness, launch, measurement, and follow-up.
• Improve planning, decision-making, portfolio visibility, adoption, feedback loops, and repeatable ways of working.

Executive influence

• Present complex situations to senior leaders with clear changes, implications, choices, recommendations, and required decisions.
• Escalate early with options rather than status-only updates.
• Build alignment across leaders with differing goals, incentives, vocabulary, or operating rhythms.
• Make sound independent decisions and identify when executive sponsorship or additional input is needed.
• Drive action across organizational boundaries while maintaining transparency and accountability.

Required qualifications

• At least 5 years of direct experience leading complex technical programs with principal- or senior-level scope in a matrixed organization.
• Strong software engineering foundation or equivalent hands-on technical background, including practical coding assessment ability.
• Ability to understand architecture and implementation details and convert them into effective program strategy.
• Strong product judgment involving problem framing, prioritization, metrics, experimentation, and trade-off analysis.
• Record of delivering cross-functional outcomes across Product, Engineering, Design, and Operations from ambiguity through launch and adoption.
• Experience influencing Directors, VPs, and other senior leaders through reasoning, evidence, recommendations, and follow-through.
• Exceptional independence, ownership, context switching, organizational awareness, and written and verbal communication.
• Practical approach to process, using rigor where risk and complexity require it and lightweight methods where speed and learning matter.

Preferred qualifications

• Previous experience as a software engineer, engineering lead, architect, technical product manager, or similarly technical professional.
• Experience with large-scale consumer digital products, media or publishing systems, subscriptions, advertising, data platforms, AI-enabled products, or platform modernization.
• Experience changing both technology and the way teams plan, make decisions, or operate.
• Experience across time zones, business units, vendors, or shared-platform organizations.

Candidate assessment

• The interview process includes a practical coding assessment covering problem solving, code comprehension, implementation, debugging, automation, data handling, or API and system interaction.
• The process includes product-thinking, technical program deep-dive, and leadership and influence discussions.

Performance expectations

Compensation

• The disclosed pay range is $103,700 to $165,900 salary per year.
• Additional compensation may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards.