Senior Technical Program Manager

Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global market leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure. We are on a mission to redefine how organizations connect with their audiences - and that’s just the beginning!
Organizations, large and small, depend on us to accurately publicize market-moving news and multimedia, and generate social engagements that develop interactions with their target audiences.
About the RoleWe are looking for an experienced Senior Technical Program Manager with a strong engineering background to lead a highly visible initiative to modernize Business Wire’s technology stack end-to-end. You will closely work with product managers, software architects, software development teams, and executive stakeholders to coordinate development activities across multiple development teams. You will need to articulate technology choices and decisions to a diverse group and be able to influence them and ensure that design and implementation meets stated requirements. You will create the required level of visibility across related projects and visualize overall progress using dashboards and other tools. You will develop and communicate project milestones and schedules as well as publicize achievements.  In all, this role is an exciting mix of solid technical complexity, partnering with product team and executive stakeholders, and communication and delivery excellence.

What You'll Do

• Lead planning, execution, and delivery of projects across multiple teams.
• Break down complex business requirements into manageable projects.
• Facilitate architectural analysis and engineering design efforts.
• Communicate technical and product decisions across teams and stakeholders.
• Interface with multiple teams.
• Lead delivery of solutions in an agile and timely manner.
• Effectively communicate progress to stakeholders via dashboards, reports, and other methods.
• Refine and improve agile methodology and adopt new techniques, such as Shape Up methodology.
• Improve utilization of agile tools, such as Jira and Confluence.

What You'll Need

• 7+ years of technical program and product management experience.
• 7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules.
• Excellent communication skills.
Business Wire will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
What We OfferThe base salary range for this position is $175K to $190K/year.  Offered salary will be determined by several factors, including but not limited to: applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with geographic market data.  Business Wire reserves the right to modify this salary range at any time.
Business Wire’s total rewards include:
• Ability to work remotely
• Excellent health benefits that begin on your first day of employment
• $100 monthly fitness allotment, a tuition reimbursement program, and enhanced mental health resources
• 401(k) plan with generous company match, and annual profit sharing contribution (subject to company performance)
• PTO, Floating Holidays, Wellness Day Off, Birthday Day Off, and more!

A pre-employment background check will be required after the acceptance of an offer. Business Wire is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, and its internal policy, Business Wire will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.