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Senior Manager, Technical Program Management – Guest & Host Technology

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full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $232,000 - $282,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Build and maintain a high-performance culture - you will be responsible for developing a team of TPMs, providing continual feedback, coaching and career growth for direct reports
  • Help scale your team's impact by favoring automation and leveraging AI to minimize manual work, setting realistic goals and expectations with stakeholders, and up-leveling TPM skills
  • Through yourself, your TPM manager peers or through the TPMs identify and drive process improvements which are needed to either improve the quality of engineering deliverables, or allow for more efficient tracking of engineering deliverables within the product lifecycle.
  • Work with Design, Finance, Operations and PMO Manager peers to identify opportunities to improve collaboration between Engineering/TPM and those functions.
  • Spearhead and oversee process improvements until fully adopted.
  • Act as the communication lead for the G&H Tech engineering community for the delivery of features for one of our bi-annual product releases. This involves close collaboration with PMO, Design, QA release leaders on communicating program level updates as well as identifying and running down program level risks and areas of ambiguity.
  • Collaborate with TPM Manager peers and Design, PMO and Finance peers to create alignment on strategies and roadmaps, and ensure effective prioritization / trade-offs against overall strategy and organizational constraints
  • Provide executional guidance and support for your team’s projects by helping simplify the technically complex, unblocking teams, identifying risks and opportunities
  • Partner with your peers leading other TPM teams to strengthen the craft
  • As needed, hands on management of large, complex, strategic programs

Requirements

  • 13+ years in technical program management function, with at least 5 years experience leading a team of TPMs, creating a culture of inclusiveness and sustainability
  • 5+ years leading a TPM team who specifically collaborates with Product and Design counterparts on customer facing features (ideally which leverage AI capabilities in the Product)
  • Experience using AI to automate manual processes to improve you and your team’s productivity
  • Proven track record of instilling or maintaining a culture of data driven decision making
  • Experience with iterative development or optimizing product development lifecycles to support a rapid build-test-learn operating model
  • Extensive experience and proven success will change management and process engineering to improve efficiencies within engineering and partner functions.
  • Proven ability to effectively navigate organizational or process ambiguity and collaborate and influence teams across boundaries to achieve organizational goals or outcomes.
  • Nimble, self-motivated, curious, proactive and effective working in a dynamic environment where priorities can shift from day to day.
  • Highly organized and impeccable communication skills.
  • Experience growing a TPM function within a startup environment is appreciated but not required.
Benefits
  • Bonuses
  • Equity
  • Employee Travel Credits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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