Technical Program Manager IV

$135,200 - $156,000/Yr

BCforward - Burlingame, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Burlingame, CA

5,001-10,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Technical Program Manager IV will oversee Power and Performance (PnP) initiatives for new devices within the System health team. This role involves crafting PnP plans, collaborating with cross-functional partners, and ensuring accountability for deliverables. The TPM will report on program status, manage risks, and support data processing to drive business insights. Building strong relationships across engineering teams and articulating program goals are key aspects of this position.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for Power and Performance (PnP) areas for new devices.
• Crafting PnP plans to support the Wearables org strategy.
• Collaboratively planning a roadmap of PnP features rollout with cross-functional partners.
• Building detailed execution plans and holding the team accountable for deliverables.
• Reporting on technical program status in various forums to peers and product leadership.
• Planning around risks and developing mitigations appropriately.
• Supporting the wider org with data processing skills and deriving insights on status and gaps.
• Building strong relationships with other groups within engineering and leveraging these relationships to meet goals.
• Articulating the technology, requirements, goals, and milestones of the program.
• Driving multiple engineering programs and product initiatives.
• Working with engineering teams to define and revise long-term strategy, roadmaps, and end-to-end plans for device system health programs.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager managing software or consumer device programs from inception to production.
• Experience delivering technical programs or products from inception to delivery.
• Knowledge of software development and product development processes and best practices.
• Experience in processing and analyzing large sets of data using MS-Excel / G-Sheet.
• Scripting experience in SQL and Python programming is a major plus.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams (software and hardware engineers, peer TPMs, and product managers).
• Experience in managing multiple programs concurrently.
• Experience in communicating program status, risks, and planned mitigations to technical experts and leadership.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building systems and processes for observing and improving battery, power, and thermals for a HW/SW system.
• Experience building systems and processes for observing and improving user-facing quality for a HW/SW system.

Benefits

• Major medical
• HSA
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employer-provided group life insurance
• Voluntary life insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• 401k