Guild is hiring a Principal Technical Program Manager for the Grow Product organization. This is the most senior individual-contributor Technical Program Management role at Guild, combining deep technical leadership with program execution. You will lead critical company-wide initiatives, influence architectural decisions across our technical stack, and shape what technical program management means as we scale.
What You'll Do
- Assess the current state of Grow Product across business objectives, stakeholder needs, and delivery inhibitors, and translate findings into a long-term, multi-team execution roadmap.
- Translate product strategy into concrete technical solutions and execution plans by working closely with engineering leaders to clarify architecture boundaries, dependencies, sequencing, and technical trade-offs.
- Own execution of the articulated roadmap by aligning teams, proactively managing dependencies, and ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery.
- Own launch and release readiness across all stakeholders, ensuring teams are informed, equipped, and ready before anything ships.
- Operate with full ownership across products and programs, proactively identifying risks, blockers, decision gaps, and opportunities, resolving them directly or ensuring clear ownership and accountability.
- Help shape the TPgM craft at Guild by modeling technical excellence, strong ownership, and sound execution judgment, and by contributing to the standards and operating model as the function scales.
- Establish and evolve the operating cadences for Product and Engineering, including how teams plan, review, and align, with a bias toward reducing coordination overhead and protecting time for high-value work.
- Mentor TPgMs and Product and Engineering leaders, establish best practices, and scale program leadership capabilities across the Guild P&E organization.
- Champion AI adoption by identifying opportunities to embed AI into the Product Development Lifecycle and modeling effective, responsible use of AI tools.
What We're Looking For
- 12+ years of experience on software teams as a Technical Program Manager, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, or similar role.
- Experience driving and delivering complex tech programs or products from inception to delivery.
- Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams and functions, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership.
- Communication experience at executive level and experience influencing senior leadership and technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products.
- Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones.
- Experience working with product teams to build and deliver end-to-end customer focused products with technical knowledge of the underlying platforms and technologies.
- Working technical foundation with the ability to understand architecture, service boundaries, data flows, and technical trade-offs.
- Demonstrated systems thinking: ability to reason about how changes ripple across teams and systems, and to think in sequences.
- Able to identify what needs to be measured and why, ensuring product data is trusted and actionable, and using data to surface risks and drive decisions.
- Knows when to go deep and when to go broad, able to dive into technical details when a program is at risk, and zoom out to cross-team sequencing when alignment is the bottleneck.
- Proven track record of owning outcomes, not tasks.
- Proactively steps into ambiguity and execution gaps rather than routing around them.
- Builds credibility with Product and Engineering partners by understanding the “why,” anticipating issues, and acting as a true execution partner.
- Communicates with precision across audiences — translates technical complexity for executives without losing credibility with engineers and architects.
- Drives alignment in ambiguous, multi-stakeholder environments by creating clarity around decisions, owners, and sequencing.
- Establishes feedback loop infrastructure that ensures customer, partner, and operational insights are systematically captured and inform product and roadmap decisions.
- Establishes communication norms and shared artifacts that scale across teams and reduce coordination overhead.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation range: $180,000 - $215,000 + equity in the form of stock options.
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser.
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future.
- Generous vacation policy to rest and recharge.
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave.
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services.
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth.
Work Mode
This role is open to candidates based locally within the United States. Eligible locations include: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, and Washington D.C.
Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
