[Remote] Staff Technical Program Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Guild is hiring a Staff Technical Program Manager, a senior individual-contributor role focused on driving execution across Product and Engineering led programs and initiatives - owning complex, cross-functional work from planning through delivery. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role that requires operating across teams and functions to ensure critical initiatives are delivered on time and with quality.

Responsibilities

• Assess the current state of Product across business objectives, stakeholder needs, and delivery inhibitors, and translate findings into a long-term, multi-team execution roadmap in close partnership with Product and Engineering
• Translate product strategy into concrete execution plans by working closely with engineering leaders to clarify dependencies, sequencing, and technical trade-offs
• Own execution of the articulated roadmap by aligning teams, proactively managing dependencies, and ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery
• Own launch and release readiness across all stakeholders, ensuring teams are informed, equipped, and ready before anything ships
• Operate with full ownership across products and programs. Proactively identify risks, blockers, decision gaps, and opportunities, resolving them directly or ensuring clear ownership and accountability
• Establish and evolve the operating cadences for Product and Engineering, including how teams plan, review, and align, with a bias toward reducing coordination overhead and protecting time for high-value work
• Establish best practices, and scale program leadership capabilities across the Guild P&E organization
• Champion AI adoption by identifying opportunities to embed AI into the Product Development Lifecycle and modeling effective, responsible use of AI tools

Skills

• 8+ years of experience on software teams as a Technical Program Manager, Program Manager, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, or similar role
• Experience driving and delivering complex Product and Engineering programs from inception to delivery
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams and functions, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership
• Communication experience at executive level and experience influencing senior leadership and technical management teams
• Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners
• Experience working with product teams to build and deliver end-to-end customer focused products with an understanding of the underlying platforms and technologies

Benefits

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future
• Vacation policy to rest and recharge
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
• Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 2-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
• Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth

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