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As a Staff Technical Program Manager, you will own the successful delivery of complex, cross-functional efforts. You will partner closely with stakeholders across the organization from Engineering, Product, Product Design, and even Field-facing teams to develop and execute against our overall product vision and business objectives, uncover solutions to technical challenges, and provide data-driven insights that power strategic decision-making.
Position Expectations- Leverage technical acumen and analytical skills to drive engineering programs forward and maximize business value delivery
- Recognize patterns in a sea of information and take action accordingly
- Develop a strategic approach to program management that balances agility and process. This involves discerning when to provide direct guidance and when to empower teams by establishing clear frameworks and guidelines for ongoing initiatives
- Build strategic partnerships with Product, Design, and Engineering stakeholders
- Expand knowledge into new domains as called upon
- Act as a mentor to junior TPMs and lead by example
- Embody MongoDB's core values and leadership principles
- Experienced with 10+ years of working in an engineering organization leading complex cross-functional technical programs
- Experienced with 5+ years of Software development background
- Able to partner with technical stakeholders in methodically breaking down engineering challenges to deliver against abstract goals
- Able to participate in technical design discussions and summarize trade-offs, outcomes, and next steps
- Skilled at communicating across a diverse set of engineers and stakeholders
- Capable of deep user empathy and adept at balancing product goals and engineering constraints to deliver impactful experiences
- Hyper-organized and capable of coordinating across multiple independent work streams and organizations
- A role model for effective execution practices, driven by an attuned sense of priority and urgency
- Able to leverage their experience in program delivery to influence improvements to our tools, operations, architecture
- Trained in working with project tracking software (e.g. Jira, Rally, MS Project)
- Familiar with MongoDB or a comparable technology
- Exposed to generative AI and Machine Learning
- Interested in business automation work such as scripting in Python, Google Apps Script and Slack
- Familiar with tools and methodologies for code analysis, refactoring, and automated testing
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REQ ID: 425283
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
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