- Run a team of stellar TPMs - including hiring, implementing organizational processes, coaching, and career planning for your direct reports.
- Have a proven track record of scaling a team to support multiple work streams and product categories, as well as implementing processes to make reporting, communication, and updates more efficient
- Provide concise updates articulating the goals, progress, milestones, and risks for your team's products into a holistic view for senior leadership
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product Management, Finance, and Product Marketing to define, revise, and track the long term strategy for the organization
- Be a key member in building out and expanding the TPM function across the R&D organization, including driving engineering strategy, defining OKRs and KPIs, and building out supporting processes and procedures
- Manage technology focused discussions with senior leadership by providing valuable insights and recommendations that guide technology-based and data-driven decisions
- Lead programs by achieving alignment on program scope, release planning, as well as aligning one or more teams on vision, business goals, creating program structure, and securing cross-functional alignment
- Be a catalyst within the organization – help drive change and advance our Research & Development strategy globally, including building our engineering brand, and developing a learning and knowledge sharing initiative to name a few
- Provide visibility to program status report (issues, risks, metrics, etc.) on an ongoing basis to all stakeholders and team members
- 12+ years experience in technical program management or operational role with 5+ years of building & leading experienced TPM team
- BA/BS degree in engineering, computer science, or similar degree
- Proven track record managing and leading teams and acting as a player-coach
- Prior experience leading large scale, enterprise programs within a software or SaaS environment
- Proven track record of data-driven decision making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across teams
- Strong communication and proven ability to develop relationships, credibility, and rapport with senior executives, technical and non-technical team members
- Deep experience with the software development lifecycle; ability to adjust and apply this knowledge in a dynamic environment using agile methodologies and best practices
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a history of hands-on, detail, and action orientation
- Strong attention to detail and prior experience managing competing and high priority tasks
- Extensive project management experience and understanding of supporting frameworks, methodologies, and toolsets
Senior Director, Technical Program Management - San Francisco, United States - Integral Ad Science
Description
Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global technology and data company that builds verification, optimization, and analytics solutions for the advertising industry and we're looking for a Senior Director, Technical Program Management to join our team. If you are excited by technology that has the power to handle hundreds of thousands of transactions per second; collect tens of billions of events each day; and evaluate thousands of data-points in real-time all while responding in just a few milliseconds, then IAS is the place for you
As Senior Director, Technical Program Management, you will build and run our critical team of TPMs. As a champion of stakeholder satisfaction you will ensure our TPM arm empowers teams and accelerates the delivery of program initiatives. This is a newly created position within a growing TPM function, and you will have the opportunity to help shape a modern technical program management organization. If you are someone who is excited about making a direct impact on the tech roadmap, partnering with leaders across the organization to find innovative solutions to complex problems, and bringing structure and processes to help teams be more efficient, this could be an exciting opportunity for you
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You should apply if you have most of this experience:
California Applicants: The salary range for this position is $186,900 - $320,400. Actual pay may vary based on experience or geographic location.
About Integral Ad Science
Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a leading global media measurement and optimization platform that delivers the industry's most actionable data to drive superior results for the world's largest advertisers, publishers, and media platforms. IAS's software provides comprehensive and enriched data that ensures ads are seen by real people in safe and suitable environments, while improving return on ad spend for advertisers and yield for publishers. Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality. For more information, visit
Equal Opportunity Employer:
IAS is an equal opportunity employer, committed to our diversity and inclusiveness. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age. We strongly encourage women, people of color, members of the LGBTQIA community, people with disabilities and veterans to apply.
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