Senior Manager - Technical Program Management

Remote

Senior

Full Time

15 days ago

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Requirements

•10+ years of experience in technical program management, including experience standing up or scaling a TPM function in a high-growth software company.
•Experience managing a team of senior IC TPMs and maintaining high standards for the function.
•Strong technical fluency, able to read code and understand architecture and dependencies.
•Experience building cross-functional interfaces between engineering and field teams such as Customer Success, Support, GTM, PMM.
•Experience operating Linear, Jira, or equivalent at scale and defining standards for project management.
•Clear understanding of the difference between TPM and PMO and awareness of hygiene-on-behalf-of-teams as a failure mode.
•Comfortable working with Engineering Managers as accountable owners on teams.
•Excellent written and asynchronous communication skills in a globally distributed team.
•High judgment and ability to hold a position without positional authority.

•Stand up the TPM function at Supabase, defining the operating model, engagement model, standards, and hiring and growing the team.
•Manage the senior IC TPM and grow the team, coaching and setting direction while maintaining standards.
•Own the cross-functional interface fabric between Engineering, Product, Design, and other company functions with defined hand-off contracts and escalation paths.
•Author the company standard for project management in Linear and ensure key cross-functional projects adhere to it.
•Hold the line on accountability, ensuring Engineering Managers are accountable for delivery and project management discipline on their teams.
•Own the dependency graph and launch readiness for large cross-functional programs involving multiple teams.
•Operate the program-level rollup infrastructure to make program state legible to leadership without adding load on teams.
•Partner across Engineering, Product, and Design leadership on a shared system for running work end-to-end and reinforce delivery operating model discipline.

•Fully Remote work with global hiring and WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
•ESOP (equity ownership) for all team members.
•Tech allowance to set up ideal work environment.
•Health benefits covering 100% of employee health insurance and 80% for dependents globally.
•Annual off-sites for company-wide connection and collaboration.
•Flexible work with asynchronous operations and trust in time management.
•Professional development allowance for courses, books, conferences, or learning.