Director, Technical Program Management

Realtor.com - Austin, TX

Full-time - Senior

Austin, TX

Personal and Laundry Services

About the position

At Realtor.com, we have among the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of real estate listings and the most engaged users across all the online real estate portals. Our mission is to make buying, selling, renting, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone. Building your career? Build it better at Realtor.com. Join us and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time. In this role, you will work side by side with Product and Engineering leadership to drive operational consistency, scale best practices, and ensure visibility and accountability of work across teams.

Responsibilities

• Work with engineering and product management leadership to define long-term strategy for the organization
• Translation of the strategy and platform/product requirements into technical requirements and solutions in collaboration with your partner teams and engineering counterparts
• Support the roadmap planning process to ensure that product, design and engineering leadership, as well as other stakeholders are aligned on deliverables
• Define and lead technical execution strategy for multiple product and platform areas
• Work with the team to develop end-to-end program plans, influence teams to deliver against them, and keep the org and leadership informed on progress
• Manage, mentor, and grow the existing product technical program management teams
• Drive internal process improvements across multiple teams and functions
• Work with teams to set milestones, communicate program statuses, and identify/address potential setbacks
• Work with engineering to ensure the team's work focuses on the highest priority partner team and customer needs
• Work across organizations to align plans, manage dependencies, drive execution, and deliver broad solutions
• Responsible for people management - hiring, developing, and implementing organizational structure, delivering performance reviews, providing continual feedback, coaching and career growth

Requirements

• Strong technical background, great communication skills, effective cross-organization collaborator, and a proven program management background
• Demonstrated experience leading large projects across multiple software teams and organizations with strong dependencies, as well as building and growing an organization of TPMs
• The candidate must be able to thrive and succeed in a fast-paced environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities
• 10+ years of software industry experience, including systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management experience
• 10+ years of people management experience leading teams to deliver technical programs or products from inception to delivery
• Experience building, growing, and leading a technical program management organization through design and execution of large product, infrastructure, tools and applications
• Analytical and problem-solving experience
• Thorough understanding of modern software development lifecycles

Benefits

• Warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture
• Intellectual challenges
• Development opportunities to grow