Job Description
Demandbase is seeking a highly motivated Staff Technical Program Manager to collaborate with engineers, fellow TPMs, and senior leadership. The ideal candidate will possess a passion for innovation and demonstrate strong product ownership. This role requires a creative individual with exceptional analytical skills and a proactive approach to achieving results. The Staff Technical Program Manager will play a crucial role in driving engineering execution, managing priorities, and implementing process improvements.
What This Role Involves:
- Driving crisp and timely prioritization based on customer impact and business opportunity.
- Managing diverse requests and dependencies.
- Defining, implementing, and continuously improving processes that improve delivery and operational efficiency.
- Interfacing with and influencing stakeholders, balancing business needs vs. technical constraints and driving clarity in ambiguous situations.
- Monitoring metrics and program health, anticipating and clearing blockers, and managing escalations.
- Ascertaining the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommending alternative technical approaches, and leading engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.
Requirements:
- A degree in Computer Science.
- 6-7 years of experience working directly with engineering teams as a TPM.
- Experience driving roadmap strategy, definition, and capacity planning.
- Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules.
- Expert level proficiency with agile &/or other program/project management methodologies.
- Adept at building processes, project management, and release schedules.
- Admin level expertise with Agile/Project/Program Management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Google Suite of Products, Smartsheet, etc.
- Expertise working on large and deeply transformative projects.
- Proven experience of delivering large-scale cross-functional initiatives end-to-end.
- Excellent communication skills – experience in writing and presenting comprehensive narratives on opportunities, plans, and results to senior management and stakeholders.
- High level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and external organizations.
- High judgment, superior negotiating skills, and exceptional attention to detail.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including facilitation and coaching, and the ability to lead and influence others.
- Resourceful in an ambiguous environment.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly adapt to new technologies.
- Exceptional problem-solving and communication skills.
What This Role Offers:
- Options for up to 100% paid Medical and Vision premiums for employees.
- A flexible PTO policy.
- No internal meetings Fridays.
- Access to Modern Health and other mental wellness resources.
- Eight paid holidays and two additional week-long breaks.
- 401(k), short-term/long-term disability, life insurance, and other great benefits.