Senior Engineering Program Manager
Adstra
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Job Level
About the role
- Drive quarterly and annual engineering planning
- Translate company objectives into executable engineering programs
- Manage cross-team dependencies across product, engineering & delivery teams
- Ensure alignment between roadmap priorities and engineering capacity
- Define milestones, timelines, and success metrics
- Identify and mitigate delivery risks early
- Improve delivery predictability and transparency
- Establish lightweight, scalable program management practices
- Improve sprint and release coordination across teams
- Track and report engineering health metrics (cycle time, throughput, predictability, capacity)
- Lead post-mortems and continuous improvement initiatives
- Provide executive-level program reporting
- Act as escalation point for cross-team blockers
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering Leads, and Delivery
- Increase engineering focus time by reducing coordination overhead
Requirements
- 7+ years in engineering program management, technical program management, or similar role
- Experience working with multiple engineering teams simultaneously
- Background in SaaS, data platforms, infrastructure, or highly technical products
- Demonstrated success improving delivery predictability in scaling startups
- Experience working in remote-first environments
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life
- LTD
- 401k w/ company match
- paid time off
- business casual dress
- summer hours
- customized training
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
engineering program managementtechnical program managementdelivery predictabilityprogram management practicessprint coordinationrelease coordinationengineering health metricscycle timethroughputcapacity
Soft Skills
cross-team collaborationrisk mitigationexecutive-level reportingcontinuous improvementproblem-solvingcommunicationleadershiporganizational skillstransparencyalignment