Director of Technical Programs

Join a leading fintech company that’s democratizing finance for all.

Robinhood was founded on a simple idea: that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood is lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.

As we continue to build...

We’re seeking curious thinkers looking to co-author the next chapters of our story. Joining now means helping shape our vision, structures and systems; playing a key-role as we launch into our ambitious future.

Check out life at Robinhood on The Muse!

The Technical Program Management function is composed of strong TPMs with varied experience across the industry. The team is poised to be the single threaded program driver and owner for large scale, technically complex, cross-org initiatives aligned with company priorities. In addition to this, the TPMs are also in the best position to drive engineering wide initiatives to bring the rigor towards creating visibility against roadmaps, managing competing priorities and dependencies beyond programs the team is driving.

The focus of the leader of the TPM team will be to transition the team to its next phase of impact. In doing so, they will play a pivotal role in building the practice infrastructure for the engineering org, along with peers in the Tech programs org. 

An ideal candidate is an excellent leader and has experience influencing teams of different disciplines to deliver results in a timeline manner. Setting the TPM vision and direction which aligns with the needs of the Engineering Leadership Team, ability to demonstrate systems thinking and designing systems to help solve scaling issues, a strong understanding of how to use data to drive decision making and designs, and identifying trends and implementing changes are all key success areas. 

Day to Day responsibilities

• Strategize, redefine and manage how we work and deliver to our commitments across engineering and Robinhood’s product offerings. 
• Strategically partner closely with engineering, product and business leaders to ensure alignment of product and engineering priorities. 
• Lead, influence and motivate an organization of TPMs and influence engineering teams with a goal to drive alignment amongst these groups and partner organizations on practices to operate effectively and efficiently. 
• Partner with all builder functions to design, build and deploy tooling and systems solutions for a highly matrixed organization. 
• Partner with peer tech programs leaders to suggest ways to make these builds, tools and systems more efficient and manage the operating and delivery rhythm for engineering. 
• Use change management expertise to swiftly but effectively roll out changes to maximize adoption, allow for iteration. 
• Lead TPM team and form a network despite varied allocation across engineering areas to streamline processes, simplify execution, manage OKRs, release on time, bring tooling efficiencies and help teams in execution. 

Skills & Experience 

• 10+ years of experience as a senior cross-functional contributor and leader in a technical organization
• Experience working in engineering organizations spanning work across engineering, product, technical program management and engineering operations. 
• Experience managing a small to mid-sized team (10+) with influence spanning an organization of hundreds or thousands. 
• Hands on experience managing large-scale, aggressive and technical projects in a software engineering domain. 
• Experience with designing, planning and implementing technical, business-critical systems and processes that can evolve and withstand changes in organizational priorities and structure.
• Enthusiasm about Robinhood’s mission and goals.
  

Base pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. You can view comp zones for our US office locations in the table below. For other locations not listed, compensation can be discussed with your recruiter during the interview process.

Office locations (by comp zone)
US Zone 1: Menlo Park, NYC, Seattle, Washington DC 
US Zone 2: Denver, Westlake (Dallas), Chicago 
US Zone 3: Lake Mary

We’re looking for more growth-minded and collaborative people to be a part of our journey in democratizing finance for all. If you’re ready to give 100% in helping us achieve our mission—we’d love to have you apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single req