Senior Staff Technical Program Manager

Overview

As a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, you will lead media programs, influence roadmap priorities and technical direction, and own end-to-end execution of critical programs. You will manage cross-team dependencies and senior stakeholders while mentoring teams to raise execution maturity across the organization.

What you'll do

• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and collaboration.
• Lead large, complex technical programs independently from planning through delivery.
• Influence roadmap priorities by aligning stakeholders on objectives and outcomes.
• Coordinate across engineering, product, and business teams to manage dependencies and ensure timely execution.
• Facilitate cross-pod collaboration and alignment to maintain delivery momentum.
• Proactively plan for and mitigate risks by evaluating alternatives, quantifying trade-offs, and structuring communication plans.
• Apply Agile methodologies for iterative delivery, adaptive planning, and continuous improvement.
• Coach teams on Agile best practices and foster high Scrum maturity.
• Maintain sprint cadence and rigor through reviews, retrospectives, and OKR alignment.
• Drive pod-level accountability for JIRA hygiene, analytics reporting, and milestone tracking.
• Ensure data-driven decision-making using clear metrics, dashboards, and visual progress reporting.
• Communicate program updates, decisions, and risks to leadership concisely and visually.
• Continuously improve internal processes to enhance team efficiency and delivery velocity.
• Mentor junior TPMs and team members to scale program management maturity.

What you'll need

• A Bachelor's/Master’s degree.
• A minimum of 12 years of experience, including 3 to 4 years in a Program Management role within the consumer technology sector.
• Deep technical understanding of scalable systems, including the ability to dive into architecture reviews, ask second-order questions, and push for scalable, resilient solutions.
• Ability to break down ambiguous goals into executable plans, identify blind spots, and push for clarity in both direction and detail.
• Strong grasp of risk/reward tradeoffs and comfort operating in fast-moving, high-stakes environments with shifting priorities and evolving context.
• Exceptional communication skills for managing stakeholder expectations and aligning diverse teams on shared timelines, goals, and impact.
• Strong program management experience managing cross-functional initiatives end to end and driving influence without authority.
• Strong experience leading complex cross-functional programs involving AI/ML and GenAI systems at scale.
• Deep technical understanding of AI platforms, execution rigor, stakeholder management, and the ability to drive AI initiatives from strategy to production.
• Expertise in Agile frameworks, including Scrum and SAFe, and tools like JIRA and Confluence.

Nice to have

• Experience with LLMs, AI infrastructure, model lifecycle management, and scalable delivery processes.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru- We Work.