Principal Technical Program Manager

At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift. 

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Principal Technical Program Manager - GROW

Guild is hiring a Principal Technical Program Manager for Grow Product, the most senior individual-contributor Technical Program Management role at Guild. In this role, you will drive execution across the technical foundations that support our multi-product organization while helping build the TPgM discipline from the ground up. This role combines deep technical leadership with program execution: leading critical company-wide initiatives, influencing architectural decisions across Guild’s technical stack, and shaping what technical program management means as we scale.

Responsibilities

• Assess the current state of Grow Product across business objectives, stakeholder needs, and delivery inhibitors, and translate findings into a long-term, multi-team execution roadmap in close partnership with Product and Engineering.
• Translate product strategy into concrete technical solutions and execution plans by working closely with engineering leaders to clarify architecture boundaries, dependencies, sequencing, and technical trade-offs.
• Own execution of the articulated roadmap by aligning teams, proactively managing dependencies, and ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery.
• Own launch and release readiness across all stakeholders, ensuring teams are informed, equipped, and ready before anything ships.
• Operate with full ownership across products, and programs. Proactively identify risks, blockers, decision gaps, and opportunities, resolving them directly or ensuring clear ownership and accountability.
• Help shape the TPgM craft at Guild by modeling technical excellence, strong ownership, and sound execution judgment, and by contributing to the standards and operating model as the function scales.
• Establish and evolve the operating cadences for Product and Engineering, including how teams plan, review, and align, with a bias toward reducing coordination overhead and protecting time for high-value work.
• Mentor TPgMs and Product and Engineering leaders, establish best practices, and scale program leadership capabilities across the Guild P&E organization.
• Champion AI adoption by identifying opportunities to embed AI into the Product Development Lifecycle and modeling effective, responsible use of AI tools.

What We’re Looking For

Technical Acumen and Cross-System Reasoning

• Working technical foundation with the ability to understand architecture, service boundaries, data flows, and technical trade-offs
• Demonstrated systems thinking: ability to reason about how changes ripple across teams and systems, and to think in sequences (e.g., dependency readiness, integration timing, and rollout order), not just individual projects
• Able to identify what needs to be measured and why, ensuring product data is trusted and actionable, and using data to surface risks and drive decisions
• Knows when to go deep and when to go broad, able to dive into technical details when a program is at risk, and zoom out to cross-team sequencing when alignment is the bottleneck

Ownership mindset and trust-building

• Proven track record of owning outcomes, not tasks.
• Proactively steps into ambiguity and execution gaps rather than routing around them.
• Builds credibility with Product and Engineering partners by understanding the “why,” anticipating issues, and acting as a true execution partner

Communication and Collaboration

• Communicates with precision across audiences — translates technical complexity for executives without losing credibility with engineers and architects
• Drives alignment in ambiguous, multi-stakeholder environments by creating clarity around decisions, owners, and sequencing
• Establishes feedback loop infrastructure that ensures customer, partner, and operational insights are systematically captured and inform product and roadmap decisions
• Establishes communication norms and shared artifacts that scale across teams and reduce coordination overhead

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience on software teams as a Technical Program Manager, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, or similar role.
• Experience driving and delivering complex tech programs or products from inception to delivery
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams and functions, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership
• Communication experience at executive level and experience influencing senior leadership and technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products
• Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones
• Experience working with product teams to build and deliver end-to-end customer focused products with technical knowledge of the underlying platforms and technologies

We are committed to equal pay for equal work and believe in compensation transparency. All salary ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region. This role offers a competitive total compensation package, including a base salary of $180,000 - $215,000, a bonus and stock options. Compensation offered will be based on a combination of factors such as experience, competencies, and internal equity.

Posting Date: March 2, 2026

*This role will stay open for a minimum of 3 days. 

Guild partners with the country’s most innovative employers, including Chipotle, Target, Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton, Spectrum, PepsiCo, Tyson, and more, to build the talent needed for today and a resilient workforce for tomorrow. Guild helps employers identify, develop, and mobilize internal talent, enabling workers to gain skills for in-demand roles and companies to stay agile. 

By connecting employees to real-world learning, coaching, and career support, and providing companies with actionable talent insights, Guild transforms all talent into high-impact contributors and positions companies for long-term, sustainable growth. For more information, visit https://www.guild.com.

Guild is a female-founded, certified B Corp. The company has been recognized by Fortune’s Change the World list (2021, 2025), the Forbes Cloud 100 (2020–2025), Great Place to Work (2022–2025), CNBC’s Disruptor 50 (2021–2024), TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies (2022), Inc.’s Best-Led Companies (2021), Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas (2020), and B Lab’s Best for the World (2019), among many others.

Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future
• Vacation policy to rest and recharge
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
• Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 2-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
• Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
  
  

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