Remote Senior Technical Program Manager

Summary

Join Jobber as a Senior Technical Product Manager, Backend Systems and drive the discovery and delivery of scalable backend systems. You will act as a Scrum Team Product Owner, managing the product backlog, participating in Scrum events, and prioritizing work based on strategic goals. Responsibilities include defining product vision and strategy, delivering impactful features, implementing and measuring project success, and managing cross-functional projects. You will also mentor team members and foster strong cross-functional relationships. This role requires a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and a data-driven mindset. Jobber offers a competitive compensation package, including extended health benefits, retirement savings plan matching, stock options, and various paid time off benefits.

Requirements

• Career experience as a Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, or similar role. A track record of building and shipping multiple products or technical solutions that have successfully delivered value. You’ve owned a complete product, or large parts of an offering, and are comfortable leading cross-functional teams. You have built up a diversity of experience through having supported a number of different teams, products, platforms or companies across your career journey thus far
• Experience in SAAS business and an understanding of the basic SAAS metrics that lead to business success
• Execution excellence. Creating insights is one thing – leading and driving execution is another. You are motivated by getting things across the finish line and have a solid track record of managing projects and multiple priorities at any given time
• Next level communication skills. Your written and verbal communication skills help articulate the voice of the customer and the needs of the business. An ability to effectively tailor messaging to the right audience, from executive-level through to your direct teams, is critical
• A shipping mindset. We don't believe in spending forever analyzing and debating. The best way to validate something is to ship it — so let's ship it, learn, and iterate
• A data-driven mindset. You look to data to define a problem and you also look to data to prove your success. You are energized by the ability to contextualize your work through various tools, systems and processes
• A strong technical background which enables you to engage with engineers about architecture and technical considerations that impact backend systems, and a desire to learn what you don’t know to help drive decision making
• A knack for the details, with an understanding of the big picture . In your role, the details matter, and help drive your team forward with a sense of direction and clarity
• Ownership. You are driven to do the right things for your work. You are accountable to both your successes and your shortcomings

Responsibilities

• Take on the responsibilities of a Scrum Team “Product Owner” for our in-house engineering teams. This includes executing the product management workflow, backlog management (writing and prioritizing Epics and Stories), participating in Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Sprints, Scrums, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives), estimation and testing
• Be responsible for product vision and strategy. You will own the creative process of generating, developing, and curating new ideas. By understanding the connections between people’s day-to-day work, the overall company vision, and stakeholder needs, they can prioritize building what matters to achieve the company’s strategic goals and initiatives
• Deliver features and technology solutions that make an impact on our internal teams. You’ll work collaboratively to prioritize work on the roadmap by ranking it against strategic goals and initiatives alongside leaders across the business
• Build a plan, implement it, and then measure success . You’ll be responsible for a timeline for the implementation of new ideas, and then defining the release process and coordinating all activities to get a project launched. Once implemented, you will help determine what success looks like for the solutions you help build, measuring that success, and keeping stakeholders informed of that progress so that your team can make iterative decisions based on results
• Be responsible for cross-functional program management . Help manage, and at times drive, complex cross-functional projects which require both technical and non-technical deliverables to come together within the broader domain you support. You will drive project planning and execution; provide proactive transparency to stakeholders (scope, status, risks and timelines); and support teams to help ensure timely delivery of their scope, including addressing blockers or issues that may arise
• Uplevel the team. You are eager to influence and elevate the TPM team by educating, mentoring and training team members across the entire company on product methodology and philosophy

Benefits

• A total compensation package that includes an extended health benefits package with fully paid premiums for both body and mind, retirement savings plan matching, and stock options
• A dedicated Talent Development function, including Development Coaches, to help build the career you want and hit the goals you set, while ensuring you’re reaching your fullest potential
• Support for all your breaks: from vacation to rest and recharge, your birthday off to celebrate, health days to support your physical and mental health, and parental leave top-ups to support your growing family