Staff Technical Program Manager
Role Overview
Staff-level individual contributor partnering with Engineering, Product Management, and Design in Toronto.
Leads large cross-organizational programs spanning multiple teams, products, and technical areas, with significant autonomy and accountability.
Works across cross-team dependencies and ambiguity to deliver outcomes with clear business value.
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Role overview
Staff-level individual contributor partnering with Engineering, Product Management, and Design in Toronto.
Leads large cross-organizational programs spanning multiple teams, products, and technical areas, with significant autonomy and accountability.
Works across cross-team dependencies and ambiguity to deliver outcomes with clear business value.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive large cross-organizational programs across multiple teams, products, and technical areas.
- Develop program frameworks and methods that support goals across teams and leadership.
- Lead initiatives by clarifying priorities, enabling execution, and providing ongoing stakeholder transparency.
- Guide and coach team members while enabling empowerment and accountability.
- Align leadership, partners, and stakeholders through replans, scope changes, and business pivots.
- Identify and mitigate risks, developing contingencies in view of program goals and challenges.
- Incorporate organizational priorities into program strategy, planning, and delivery.
- Mentor less senior TPMs and improve team effectiveness and throughput.
- Promote continuous improvement and agile practices, bringing data-driven proposals to leadership.
Minimum qualifications
- 8+ years of Technical Program Management experience, including Senior or Staff-level work on large-scale, cross-organizational SaaS programs.
- Experience navigating interdependencies, product and engineering alignment, engagement models, communications, and change management.
- Experience delivering programs end to end, from inception through General Availability and go-to-market.
- Broad technical understanding, including product functionality, fundamental security concepts, and customer value.
- Experience advising and aligning with leadership and mentoring less senior TPMs.
- Strong communication, leadership, influence, conflict resolution, and ability to work through ambiguity and competing priorities.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Preferred training
- Training in Agile and Scrum is preferred.
Salary
- Annual base salary range in Canada is CAD $131,000–$180,400; actual salary depends on skills, qualifications, and experience.
- Equity, bonus, and benefits may also be provided in accordance with applicable plans and policies.
Workplace experience
- The company describes an in-person onboarding experience; this does not specify the ongoing work arrangement.
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