Remote Technical Program Manager

Summary

Join Whatnot, the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, as a Technical Program Manager to drive incident management and stability efforts across Infrastructure and Product teams.

Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant experience
• Experience leading complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible technical and operational initiatives across the company
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, identify trade-offs, and make decisions with limited information in high-pressure situations
• Experience building roadmaps, project/release plans with a strong understanding of dependency management
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to work with key stakeholders to define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions
• Entrepreneurial drive and proven ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative fast-paced environment
• Startup experience at a high-growth company
• Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field

Responsibilities

• Drive the Infrastructure engineering roadmap, strategy and execution of cross functional initiatives
• Prioritize key technical initiatives and features to provide the highest quality of data for internal customers to ensure that it’s reliable, discoverable, and secure
• Identify and deliver on efficiency improvements for Infrastructure to support the business
• Develop processes based on data and modeling that consistently review and improve Whatnot’s capacity needs
• Clearly communicate roadmap, progress, and insights to key teams and stakeholders
• Do whatever it takes to ensure the engineering team is operating effectively, unblock them and make sure they can move at a rapid pace
• Drive strategic initiatives across the company as needed

Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy
• Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
• Home office setup allowance
• Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
• Monthly allowance on both food and wellness
• Annual allowance towards Childcare
• Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
• Parental Leave
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence