Motive is hiring a Technical Program Manager to drive quarterly and sprint planning, execution, and delivery for our engineering organization. This role plays a large part in shaping the engineering organization and the TPM team, overseeing the successful delivery of technical projects to meet business requirements, timelines, and quality standards.
What You'll Do
- Closely collaborate with the product team to define quarterly or bi-annual planning, roadmap, objectives, scope, and deliverables.
- Work with engineering teams on creating detailed project plans, including tasks, timelines, and resource allocation.
- Identify and manage project dependencies and risks.
- Coordinate and align design, product, and engineering teams to facilitate effective communication, collaboration, and drive decisions.
- Work with team members to move forward in case of any roadblocks or conflicts.
- Make sure project execution is going according to the plan and track milestones.
- Track and report weekly project status updates to stakeholders.
- Identify risks and blockers and work to mitigate and unblock them.
- Lead, own, and improve sprint rituals, such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and demos.
- Ensure correct reflection of teams’ assignments and their statuses on tools, boards, and dashboards.
- Drive the culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to improve current processes.
- Lead and organize quarter and project level retrospectives to extract key learnings.
What We're Looking For
- At least 7+ years of experience in Program Management.
- Experience with project management software such as JIRA, Confluence, or Coda.
- Ability to lead and coach without authority.
- Ability to gain meaningful insights from data and create an action plan.
- Capacity to work in a fast paced, continuously changing environment.
- Strong experience with agile methodologies.
Nice to Have
- Prior technical experience or a technical degree (at least bachelor's degree in engineering).
- CSM or PMP training is a bonus.
Team & Environment
You will be an early addition to the software TPM team, collaborating with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and design.
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position based in Pakistan.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
