Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure
Technical Program Manager to drive incident management and stability efforts across Infrastructure and Product teams. Requires 6+ years of experience.
We are looking for a strong Technical Program Manager who will work across our Infrastructure and Product teams to drive incident management and stability efforts. You will be embedded within the Infrastructure Engineering team and partner with leadership across the organization to strengthen Whatnot’s security and quality.
- 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.
Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA, or New York, NY hubs.
👋 You
Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here.
As our next Technical Program Manager you should have 6+ years of relevant experience, plus:
- 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.
💰Compensation
$178,000/year to $235,000/year + benefits + equity