Sr. Technical Program Manager, Replatforming

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About Taskrabbit:

Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that conveniently connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-do’s, such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and much more.

At Taskrabbit, we want to transform lives one task at a time. As a company we celebrate innovation, inclusion and hard work. Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced. We’re looking for talented, entrepreneurially minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love.

Together with IKEA, we’re creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world.

• Taskrabbit is a remote-first company with employees distributed across the US and EU
• 5-time Best Places to Work in 2022 by BuiltIn. Including Best Companies in SF, Best Mid-Sized Companies, and Best Benefits
• DataBird journal’s “Best Places” Best Companies for Diversity, #1 2019 and 2020
• DataBird journal’s “Best Places” Best Companies for Women, #4 2019 and #1 2020

About the Role:

As a Sr. Technical Program Manager focused on Replatforming, you will coordinate across a team of architects, software engineers, product stakeholders, and data scientists to define and deliver the technical re-platforming effort at Taskrabbit. You will drive through ambiguity to plan and build roadmaps, risk/dependency trackers, status dashboards, and manage delivery timelines while creating the single source of truth for technical re-platforming effort at Taskrabbit. 

 

Join us in transforming lives, one task at a time.

 

What You’ll Work On: 

• Own delivery of a large-scale, cross-functional technical re-platforming effort with a focus on breaking down monolithic software architecture into smaller services
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to create a long-term plan with quarterly milestones tied to business value to measure and track the delivery of the technical re-platforming program
• Implement & own an agile scrum of scrums to plan and execute re-platforming initiatives that span multiple teams
• Implement SDLC and quality best practices in the re-platforming development pipeline
• Drive quarterly program increment planning for the technical re-platforming effort and align plans + dependencies across engineering, data, design, and product teams
• Collaborate with a platform architect to gather and document platform requirements
• Advise on value, effort, and risk-based tradeoff decisions to inform the sequencing of our re-platforming strategy
• Generate and report program-level agile metrics
• Report upward on project status and create self-service project status dashboards

 

Your Areas of Expertise:

• Minimum of 5 years of technical program management skills directly working with software engineering teams 
• Experience transitioning monolithic architecture into smaller services

• Ability to create and report on roadmaps, project plans, gantt charts, technical requirement documentation, risk registers, etc
• Ability to break down large complex technical projects into smaller, more manageable deliverables
• Understanding of technical software architecture
• Ability to communicate project plans and goals with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfortable with Github, JIRA, Confluence, CircleCI, Slack, & Google Workspace

You’ll love working here because:

• Taskrabbit is a Remote-First Company. We value flexibility and choice but also stay committed to regular in-person connection.
• The People. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented, supportive, smart, and kind leaders and teams -- people you can be proud to work with!
• The Values. 
• Care Deeply. We take time to be present and partner with our team and communities. 
• Level Up. We navigate through ambiguity and go the extra mile.
• Be A Better Neighbor. We build a diverse and sustainable community and encourage all voices.
• Lead The Future Together. We value entrepreneurship and are inspired by action.
• The Diverse Culture. We believe that we make better decisions when our workforce reflects the di