Forward

Forward

Technical Program Manager

Santa Clara, CA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 days ago
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About the role

  • You need technical credibility - Pure engineering.
  • You're not writing runbooks or going on-call - Order-taker.

Responsibilities

  • Drive execution across engineering programs, including releases, cross-functional initiatives, and the communications and coordination infrastructure that keeps a scaling org aligned.
  • Process design that gets teams aligned without adding bureaucracy. Lightweight, followed, and retired when no longer useful
  • identify what should be automated, partner with engineers to implement, and use AI for status tracking, documentation, and dependency analysis

Nice to have

  • Track record running multi-team SaaS releases and broader engineering programs with complex dependencies
  • Technical depth to distinguish realistic from fantasy (networking or infrastructure background a plus)
  • Translates fluently between technical teams and business stakeholders
  • Knows when to push back on scope or timeline vs. when to escalate
  • Comfortable being the person who asks "are we still on track?" repeatedly, and the one who reframes the question when the answer keeps being "yes" but the evidence says otherwise

Skills

  • Forward is transforming how the world's most complex networks are managed and secured.
  • Forward is looking for a Technical Program Manager

Compensation

  • According to IDC, Forward customers realize an average of $14.2 million in annual benefits through improved efficiency and security.

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