Technical Program Manager

About the role

Dispel Engineering is in charge of building and maintaining Dispels products. Engineering interacts closely with Product, Operations, and Project management.

All members of the engineering team are expected to be honest, competent and easy to work with. Communicating around the state of plans and execution as well as continually learning about the technologies used in Dispels products is also expected of all team members.

In Dispel Engineering we help each other before we help ourselves, we succeed or fail as a team.

Description

Product TPMs work at the cross-section between technical execution and business strategy and are expected to partner closely with Engineering and Product teams. Being a TPM means driving impact by delivering measurable results across a wide range of areas. You'll be responsible for defining and guiding high-level goals and roadmaps, monitoring and communicating progress, and defining functional requirements for new products and features. It also means having a strong technical background, understanding system architecture, and the experience to effectively collaborate across functions and organizations to deliver impact.

Requirements

Product Technical Program Manager Responsibilities

• Develop and manage end-to-end technical product solutions and ensure on-time delivery.
• Manage cross-functional products and programs in a matrix organization.
• Help define the roadmap and long-term strategy of the teams that you are working with.
• Design measurements to track impact and drive internal process improvements.
• Articulate the technology, requirements, goals and milestones of your team.
• Collaboratively define the vision for building Dispel-scale, state-of-the-art, global products.
• Develop and manage end-to-end project plans to ensure on-time delivery, provide day-to-day coordination, and quality assurance for tasks.
• Identify dependencies and develop mitigation strategies.
• Move fast in a flat organization by working in concert with technical program managers and engineers across Dispel to establish a shared vision for improving execution and build solutions for privacy and security at scale.
• Ongoing communication of planning, project status, issues and risks in a timely fashion to stakeholders.
• Build bridges with product and infrastructure teams to discover adoption challenges, champion purpose use development and privacy/security product adoption.
• Help drive product decisions to align with higher company initiative.
• Bring a strong sense of execution and ownership to the team.
• Establish shared goals with product teams across the company to build alignment across multiple cross-functional teams and to build and scale products for Dispel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering, systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management experience.
• Experience delivering tech programs or products from inception to delivery.
• Knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope.
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership.
• Communication experience and experience working with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products.
• Organizational, coordination and multi-tasking experience.
• Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.
• 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.

Good Personal Traits

• A willingness to accept failure and feedback, learn and try again.
• A passion for learning new disciplines and gaining a deep understanding of how others on the team do their work.
• An ability to communicate clearly and succinctly both in-person and over team chat.

Benefits

At Dispel you’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

• 401(k) w/ company match.
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Health savings account

The U.S. pay range for this position is between $170,000 and $190,000/year with an expected Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) bonus yearly (including bonus or commission). Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Dispel is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

Beware of Hiring Scams: Dispel will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information such as social security numbers during the hiring process. All official communication will come from a verified company email address. If you receive suspicious requests or communications, please report them to [email protected]. All of our legitimate openings can be found on the Dispel Career Site at https://apply.workable.com/dispel/