Principal Technical Program Manager
Role Overview
Principal-level individual contributor leading high-impact, cross-functional technical programs tied to company OKRs and strategic priorities.
Partners with Engineering, Product, business stakeholders, and executive leadership to improve planning and delivery.
Helps build the TPM function, establish its operating model, and develop future program leaders.
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Role overview
Principal-level individual contributor leading high-impact, cross-functional technical programs tied to company OKRs and strategic priorities.
Partners with Engineering, Product, business stakeholders, and executive leadership to improve planning and delivery.
Helps build the TPM function, establish its operating model, and develop future program leaders.
What you'll do
- Own complex technical initiatives and ensure requests align with company objectives and measurable outcomes.
- Negotiate scope, timelines, and impact; manage cross-team plans, dependencies, roadmaps, and delivery cadence.
- Produce audience-specific status reports and use delivery metrics and retrospectives to identify bottlenecks and improve outcomes.
- Establish intake, planning, prioritization, reporting, quarterly planning, program review, and launch-readiness practices.
- Lead organizational change and high-stakes launches, client escalations, or incidents; keep stakeholders informed.
- Provide capacity and resourcing data for headcount planning, architecture reviews, and portfolio discussions.
- Maintain TPM documentation and onboarding materials; mentor program managers and advise executives.
Required qualifications
- 8+ years in Technical Program Management or an equivalent strategic technical role, including 3+ years leading programs across multiple teams or business units.
- Deep knowledge of Agile software development, such as Scrum and SAFe.
- Technical fluency in systems architecture, APIs, integrations, and technical dependencies; able to explain complex systems to business audiences.
- Experience delivering OKR-linked programs, defining delivery metrics, and reporting to executive and engineering audiences.
- Strong prioritization, autonomous decision-making, communication, stakeholder alignment, and executive influence.
- Hands-on Jira and project-management tool experience; experience with backlogs, epics, milestones, and executive dashboards.
- Experience scaling program-management functions, mentoring program managers, leading organizational change, and planning capacity and resources.
Preferred qualifications
- CSM, PSM, or SAFe certification.
- Experience in healthcare, health tech, virtual care, care delivery platforms, healthcare operations, or clinical, pharmacy, or technical integrations.
- Experience in fast-growing or globally distributed teams.
- Experience delivering AI or machine-learning projects, including LLM features, automation, or integrations.
- Hands-on AI tool use and experience introducing and measuring AI-assisted team workflows.
Benefits
- Benefits for salaried positions include medical, dental, and vision plans; flexible spending or health savings accounts; flexible PTO; 401(k) with company match; and life and pet insurance.
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