Senior Technical Program Manager
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Senior Technical Program Manager overseeing multi-team technical initiatives at Best Friends Animal Society. Driving alignment and execution while fostering collaboration across various stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end program management for complex, multi-team technical initiatives.
- Define and maintain program roadmaps, milestones, and success metrics.
- Serve as the primary point of coordination between engineering teams, product, security, project managers, and business stakeholders.
- Facilitate cross-functional planning sessions, design reviews, and executive status briefings.
- Identify, assess, and proactively mitigate program risks and dependencies.
- Drive alignment on priorities and trade-offs across competing team needs.
- Partner with engineering leads to ensure technical designs, architecture decisions, and delivery plans are realistic.
- Collaborate with security teams to embed security and compliance requirements into program planning and delivery processes.
- Establish, improve, and scale program management frameworks, processes, and tooling.
- Maintain a high-level strategic vision across programs.
- Track and report on program health using defined KPIs and OKRs.
- Partner closely with the Project Management Office (PMO).
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in technical program management
- Strong foundational understanding of software engineering principles, system design, infrastructure concepts, and data engineering practices
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent programs in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
- Experience working directly with security, compliance, or risk teams to incorporate requirements into program delivery.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated experience leading without direct authority
- Proficiency with program and project management tools
- Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and/or other delivery methodologies.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or related field — or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits:
- great benefits!



















