Staff Technical Program Manager

About Our Client

Our client is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

About The Role

The company is looking for an experienced, motivated Staff Technical Program Manager to oversee high visibility programs for the team and streamline processes for building great customer and merchant products. As the products scale in complexity to meet the accelerating business and expanding product lines, program management practices need to scale with it. You will help Product and Engineering teams develop processes and frameworks for building quality software, while evaluating new technology developments to drive potential features and products.

What You’ll Do:

• Drive complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible technical programs in service of the team’s mission of expanding the consumer product suite and platform capabilities
• Coordinate across engineering teams and non-engineering stakeholders through the full program lifecycle to plan requirements, identify risks, manage program schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company
• Understand technical implementation at the architecture level and propose technical alternatives, ask questions that clarify priorities and push the team to be effective, and develop domain and technical knowledge
• Partner with Product and Engineering to plan requirements, identify risks, manage program schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company
• Track progress, resolve dependencies, evaluate risks, and communicate status to upper management and program stakeholders, and engage the program teams to achieve goals

What They Look For:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 8 years of proven experience managing technical programs
• Passion and drive to change consumer finance for the better
• Organized and strategic approach to collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams
• Obsesses over getting the details right but knows how to ship on time
• Working and driving strategic programs and building a remote friendly culture.
• Actively mentors and levels up team members
• Track record of successfully driving complex large technology applications and geographically distributed backend systems.
• Track record of strong stakeholder management with Engineering, Product, Design, Analytics, and other cross-functional teams.
• Prior experience in FinTech, Payments or Commerce is a plus.

Employees new to the company typically come in at the start of the pay range. The company focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)

Salary Range

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $190,000 - $240,000

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $169,000 - $219,000

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

The hiring company is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Employees in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

Benefits

The hiring company is extremely proud to offer competitive benefits. Some key highlights of the benefits package include:

• Health care coverage - The company covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares in the company at a discount

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