Summary
Join MongoDB's Core Server Engineering team as the Director of Technical Program Management! Lead strategic planning and execution of critical technical projects and programs. Oversee a team of Technical Program Managers, fostering collaboration and innovation. This remote U.S.-based role requires 10-15 years of experience managing complex technical initiatives and a degree in a related field. You will partner with engineering and product management, building alignment across cross-functional leaders. Success involves establishing partnerships, performing reviews, and identifying a team vision. MongoDB offers a comprehensive benefits package.
Requirements
- 10-15 years experience managing complex, technical initiatives and engineering programs from initiation to completion
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, related fields or equivalent industry experience
- Experience with MongoDB, databases, or comparable complex technology
- Experience with technical design discussions and ability to summarize complex trade-offs and extract priorities
- Demonstrated technical aptitude and strong analytical skills with proven results
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt your style and delivery for a variety of audiences
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategic planning, execution, and delivery of some of our most business critical technical projects and programs within our core server engineering area
- Oversee a team of Technical Program Managers
- Elevate and perfect the art of program management, partnering closely with engineering and product management
- Successfully leverage deep experience and knowledge of engineering operations and product development flows to set an innovative strategy for programs owned by reporting TPMs
- Model rigorous strategic and tactical thinking and execution
- Lead and manage a team of TPMs, inspiring challenges for high performers and guiding high potential growth team members who need more support - advocate for and nurture their career growth
- Cultivate a collaborative atmosphere that promotes learning, creativity, and invention
- Anticipate and remove with a sense of urgency obstacles that slow down or prevent TPM reports and product teams from delivering on goals
- Build alignment across cross-functional leaders by fostering strategic partnerships to drive business goals forward
- Be a trusted strategic partner for executive management to ensure program success
- Create clarity in a complex technical environment, align stakeholderβs expectations and manage engineering communication
- Capably facilitate engineering discussions leveraging technical aptitude and analytical skills to summarize complex trade-offs, extract priorities and next steps, streamlining team decision making
Preferred Qualifications
- Proven success as someone who can effectively partner with stakeholders to manage high-value change in a technical organization
- Able to deconstruct complex challenges into coherent components and steadily advance towards solving them
- Deep experience managing large-scale programs, end-to-end, across the whole software development process, encompassing strategic planning and successful product delivery
- An ability to lead with innovative insights through strong analytical and communication skills
- Demonstrated success partnering with technical stakeholders on breaking down engineering challenges in a methodical manner: establishing goals, setting priorities, outlining the project's scope and implementation steps
- Crisp execution and facilitation skills in the face of ambiguity and competing priorities. Can preemptively anticipate potential blockers and navigate effectively
- Experience building successful teams and cultivating an environment of trust, collaboration, and #intellectualhonesty
- Experience identifying and supporting areas of growth, providing constructive and effective feedback with empathy, for reports that take into account their skills, backgrounds and working styles
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
- Fertility and adoption assistance
- 401(k) plan
- Mental health counseling
- Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
- Health benefits offerings
- Equity
- Participation in the employee stock purchase program