Technical Program Manager, Platform Services
Role Overview
Lead high-impact, cross-cutting technical programs across Motive’s Platform Services and product engineering organization.
The role focuses on platform foundations, engineering delivery at scale, platform adoption, architectural change, and alignment of multi-team investments.
Reports to Platform Services engineering leadership and works across engineering and partner functions.
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About the role
Lead high-impact, cross-cutting technical programs across Motive’s Platform Services and product engineering organization.
The role focuses on platform foundations, engineering delivery at scale, platform adoption, architectural change, and alignment of multi-team investments.
Reports to Platform Services engineering leadership and works across engineering and partner functions.
Responsibilities
- Translate organizational priorities into executable roadmaps with measurable outcomes alongside Platform Services leadership and engineering managers.
- Lead cross-functional programs from definition and planning through delivery and adoption.
- Align teams on goals, milestones, dependencies, decisions, risks, and operating rhythms.
- Build roadmap reviews, status reporting, escalation paths, and success metrics to improve visibility and accountability.
- Identify systemic execution gaps and lead teams toward durable solutions.
- Influence stakeholders on trade-offs and keep strategic initiatives moving.
- Mentor others and improve program management practices across engineering.
- Drive monthly and quarterly business reviews, executive reporting, and cross-organizational communications.
- Partner with Product leadership to map product roadmaps into programs involving multiple engineering teams.
- Implement tracking frameworks, such as Gantt or single-source-of-truth models, that surface delivery risks in advance.
Required qualifications
- 7+ years in technical program management, engineering program management, or a related software, infrastructure, or platform role.
- 15+ years of technology-industry experience.
- Track record leading large, ambiguous, multi-team programs with significant dependencies and measurable impact.
- Technical fluency in architecture, trade-offs, delivery risks, and execution planning.
- Strength in program structure, decision-making, and complex problem-solving in evolving environments.
- Experience building senior-stakeholder alignment and improving communication, governance, and execution.
- Bias for action and root-cause problem-solving, including actively unblocking delivery.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication and ability to create executive summaries and trade-off matrices.
- Experience establishing objective metrics for program success.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Prior background as a software engineer, systems or delivery architect, or technical product manager is preferred.
- Experience with AI-assisted developer workflow tooling or agentic automation is preferred.
Compensation
- The compensation range stated for Canada is CAD 180,000–210,000 USD; the description does not specify the pay cadence.
- Compensation may depend on education, work experience, and certifications; some roles may include restricted stock units.
Benefits
- Benefits described include health, pharmacy, optical and dental care, paid time off, sick time, disability coverage, life insurance, and 401(k) contributions, subject to eligibility.
Workplace information
- The posting says some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at a global office; it does not specify the role’s regular workplace arrangement.
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