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Role Description: Technical Program Manager (Execution & Coordination Focused)
Key Responsibilities
Project Orchestration (Not Ownership)
• Drive cross-functional execution of key initiatives across engineering, product, design, and operations.
• Ensure alignment to existing priorities set by leadership — your role is to coordinate delivery, not set direction.
• Partner closely with the Head of Product & Engineering to keep momentum and clarity across all moving parts.
Cross-Team Communication & Sync
• Act as the central point for status updates, blockers, and inter-team dependencies.
• Run async status rituals, write crisp updates, and facilitate effective information flow between teams — reducing the communication load on senior leaders.
Timeline & Resource Coordination
• Help teams stay on track by tracking timelines, surfacing delays early, and balancing workloads across contributors.
• Maintain and optimize project tracking tools like Linear, Notion, or custom dashboards — keeping teams aligned without micromanaging.
Risk & Issue Management
• Proactively identify delivery risks, bottlenecks, and misalignments.
• Escalate issues early with proposed mitigation plans, ensuring the right people are looped in without creating noise.
Documentation & Process Support
• Maintain lightweight but comprehensive documentation for projects (e.g., project briefs, timelines, decisions, retrospectives).
• Improve delivery and coordination processes over time — without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy.
Stakeholder Visibility
• Provide weekly written updates to senior leadership on progress, risks, and changes — always aligned with the vision and direction set by product/engineering leadership.
• Help prepare materials for product reviews, demos, or cross-org checkpoints when needed.
What This Role Is Not
• This is not a product decision-making role — prioritization and vision remain with the product & engineering leadership.
• This is not a delivery ownership role — technical architecture and product strategy are led by the existing team.
• This is not a people management or functional leadership role — your impact is through coordination, clarity, and communication.