Senior Technical Program Manager [Remote-US]

About Us

The role

We’re looking for an accomplished and well-rounded Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join our Quanata Program Management Office (PMO) Team. The PMO Team drives Quanata’s Rhythm of Business and focuses on delivery optimization across the company and driving company level goal achievement. Senior TPMs manage initiatives that drive direct and material impact against the highest business priorities with high complexity of execution. They lead complex delivery optimization challenges and drive continuous improvement to promote efficient and effective processes. Senior TPMs coach and mentor more junior program managers and role model best practice behaviors and skills across most areas of the program management discipline.

Your day-to-day

1. Bring order to chaos by building, implementing, and sustaining right-sized processes that empower the organization through clear workflows, communications, and reporting. Marshal delivery of the highest priority goals in the organization. Support organizational leaders in building effective goals (OKRs) and partner with cross-functional leads to break work into portfolios, programs, and workstreams (projects, kanban, etc.) to deliver goals.

2. Ensure vertical and horizontal alignment and transparency at the appropriate level at the right time across all programs, projects, and services, including the executive level.

3. Guarantee execution against the highest level goals by driving program and project teams to hit expected delivery goals (OKRs), and ensuring teams have effective and efficient ways of independent working. Facilitate governance across their teams, implement known governance processes and patterns, and manage complex escalations end-to-end, exhibiting best practice issue management independently and helping others navigate successful escalations.

4. Drive organizational change across large teams through independent identification and execution of process improvements via a rigorous and thoughtful continuous improvement framework and organizational change management. Manage and simplify organizational change so it can be managed by less senior team members.

5. Tackle volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous challenges by driving planning cycles and ensure clarity of goals (OKRs), schedules, milestones, and risks across your assigned areas of responsibility, which will include highly complex technical programs and projects. Provide program management direction within assigned programs, projects, and services, influencing organizational policies, best practices, and standards, ensuring alignment with Quanata OKRs and executive leadership.

6. Collaborate effectively with all cross-functional colleagues and stakeholders and demonstrate workplace resilience against change, feedback, and challenges.

7. Demonstrate technical understanding by planning and executing against technical engineering goals and product designs.

8. Coach and mentor junior team members across Quanata Program Management core skills and knowledge areas.

9. Other duties as assigned.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience

• Twelve or more years project/program management or relevant experience

• Eight or more years of experience in software engineering product development

• Program Management core skills and knowledge:

• • Communications & Stakeholder Management - Advanced level

  • Continuous Improvement - Proficient level

  • Execution & Governance - Expert level

  • Managing Organizational Change - Proficient level

  • Planning - Expert level

  • Portfolio Management - Development / nascent level

• Expert in developing and maintaining team harmony in a diverse environment and showing workplace resilience in the face of change and feedback.

• Recruiting: Assist with recruiting and interviewing various roles, as needed.

Bonus points

• Bachelor’s degree in software development adjacent field (eg: computer science, data science, project management)

• PMP certification

• Six Sigma Green / Black Belt

Salary: $230,000 to $355,000*

*Please note that the final salary offered will be determined based on the selected candidate's skills, and experience, as well as the internal salary structure at Quanata. Our aim is to offer a competitive and equitable compensation package that reflects the candidate's expertise and contributions to our organization.

Additional Details: 

• Benefits: We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits.These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.
• Work from Home Equipment: Given our virtual environment— in order to set you up for success at home, a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. Also, our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day.
• Paid Time Off: All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment.  New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.
• Personal and Professional Development: We’re committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally.  All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development.  All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
• Location: We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. Occasional travel may be required for team meetings or company gatherings. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.  
• Hours: We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.