Principal Technical Program Manager

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About the role

  • Principal Technical Program Manager driving complex engineering programs at OpenLoop, a telehealth solutions company. Establishing TPM operating standards, delivery metrics, and cross-functional execution tied to company OKRs.

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive complex, cross-functional technical initiatives tied to company OKRs
  • Align business stakeholder requests with company objectives and measurable outcomes
  • Make prioritization and tradeoff decisions with Engineering and business leaders
  • Produce executive summaries, detailed engineering delivery views, and business partner updates
  • Own cross-team planning, dependency management, and delivery cadence across engineering teams
  • Use metrics and retrospectives to identify bottlenecks and improve efficiency, predictability, cycle time, delivery health, and communication
  • Set program strategy and operating cadence across engineering and product, including quarterly planning, program reviews, and multi-quarter roadmaps
  • Define OpenLoop’s TPM operating model for intake, planning, prioritization, reporting, and delivery health
  • Lead organizational change involving delivery practices, tooling, or team structures
  • Lead delivery during critical launches, client escalations, and incidents
  • Run launch readiness checks and consistent engineering/product operating cadences
  • Provide capacity and resourcing data for headcount planning, architecture reviews, and portfolio discussions
  • Maintain TPM documentation and onboarding materials
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, business stakeholders, and executive leadership
  • Help build the TPM function and develop the next generation of TPMs

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in Technical Program Management or an equivalent strategic technical role, including 3+ years leading programs spanning multiple teams or business units
  • Deep working knowledge of Agile software development, including Scrum and SAFe
  • Strong technical fluency with systems architecture, APIs, integrations, and technical dependencies
  • Experience translating complex systems into business-friendly language
  • Experience driving programs tied to OKRs and measurable business outcomes
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including presenting to senior stakeholders and executives
  • Experience writing audience-specific status reports and program updates
  • Experience defining and using delivery metrics such as velocity, predictability, cycle time, and health indicators
  • Strong prioritization and decision-making skills; ability to operate autonomously
  • Experience aligning and influencing cross-functional stakeholders
  • Hands-on experience using Jira and other project management tools
  • Experience structuring backlogs, defining epics and milestones, and creating executive-ready reporting dashboards
  • Track record of building or scaling a program management function and defining adopted processes, tooling, and reporting standards
  • Experience mentoring and developing program managers
  • Executive presence and experience advising C-level leaders without direct authority
  • Experience leading organizational change and adoption of new delivery practices
  • Ability to connect technical roadmaps to business strategy, budget, and resourcing decisions
  • Experience resolving conflict and aligning teams with competing priorities
  • Track record of coaching others into stronger program leaders
  • Sound judgment under ambiguity and experience making high-stakes decisions
  • Experience shaping team structure, hiring, or leveling for a program or project management team
  • Track record of identifying and resolving delivery risk proactively
  • Experience building capacity and resource plans and forecasting delivery using velocity and burndown
  • Calm under pressure
  • Preferred: CSM, PSM, or SAFe certification
  • Preferred: experience in healthcare, health tech, virtual care, care delivery platforms, or healthcare operations
  • Preferred: experience with clinical, pharmacy, or technical integrations
  • Preferred: experience working in fast-growing or globally distributed teams
  • Preferred: experience delivering AI or machine learning projects
  • Preferred: hands-on use of AI tools and introducing AI-assisted workflows

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
  • Flexible Spending/Health Savings Accounts
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401(k) + Company Match
  • Life Insurance
  • Pet insurance
  • Autonomy, Competence and Belonging-focused work culture

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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