Sr. Technical Program Manager, Data Platform

About the job:

We're looking for an energetic and experienced SeniorTechnical Program Managerto join our Data Platform Engineering team. Our team is responsible for enabling H&H business (Product, Analytics, Operations, Finance, Data Science, Machine Learning, Customer Experience, Engineering) by providing a platform with a rich set of data and tools to leverage. 

As a senior TPM within the Data Platform team, you’ll work closely with our Product and Engineering teams to understand their roadmaps, architecture, and data. You’ll also work with our consumers of the Data Platform to better understand their data needs. You’ll take your passion for working with people and leveraging your technical skills to move quickly, efficiently, and decisively to connect the dots and help our team deliver.

You Will:

• Build strong cross-functional relationships to understand our product data and the needs/uses of data

• Create requirements and technical specifications

• Track and manage project risks, dependencies, status, and deliverable timelines

• Help drive Data Platform strategies

• Work with stakeholders to understand requirements and negotiate solutions and timelines

• Communicate and make sure the right people have the correct information in time

• Work within our Data Platform Engineering team to help build out ticketed work and provide details to translate requirements and benefits to that work

• Ensure the highest business value is being delivered to our stakeholders

• Establish mechanisms to optimize team effectiveness

• Lead prioritization meetings and status meetings with stakeholders at a regular cadence

• Collaborate with other Technical Program Managers to highlight dependencies with different domains

• You will have a bias for action, a sense of urgency, and attention to detail that makes you someone your team can instinctively trust and rally behind

• Drive continuous process improvements and best practices to create a robust, predictable, priority-driven culture

• Collaborate with legal to ensure data privacy and compliance are followed and implemented

• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, and backlog grooming sessions

You Have:

• Minimum of 5 years experience as a data-oriented Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, or Lead capacity

• Experience working with Data Platform Engineering teams to ship scalable data products and technical roadmaps

• Previous experience building Data Platforms on the cloud using Databricks or Snowflake

• Proficiency in Jira or other project management tools

• Knowledge of modern data stacks like Airflow, Databricks, Google BigQuery, dbt, Fivetran

• Ability to understand different data domains and technical requirements

• Experience collaborating with different stakeholders such as Analytics, ML, Finance, Product, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Experience teams

• Solid understanding of data pipelines

• Knowledge of SQL to independently investigate and test datasets, perform data validation, sketch solutions, and create basic proofs of concept

• Experience working with management to define and measure KPIs and other operating metrics

• Extensive experience working on Data Security and Data Governance initiatives

• A Foundational understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Understanding of SDLC and Agile frameworks

• Strong project management skills with attention to detail and experience in managing multiple projects and meeting ongoing and overlapping deadlines 

• Bias towards over-communication

• Team player, collaborative, and positive attitude

• Strong leadership and communication skills

• Excellent writing, oral, and presentation skills

• Ability to influence without authority

• Passion for operational excellence, attention to detail, and a demonstrated ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, high-growth environmen

Nice To Have:

• Experience working in healthcare 

• Previous working experience at startups

• A basic understanding of data streaming technologies (eg, Kafka, RabbitMQ), Git, Atlan, and Terraform is a big plus 

• Working experience with BI tools like Tableau and Looker

Our Benefits (there are more but here are some highlights):

• Competitive salary & equity compensation for full-time roles

• Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and quarterly mental health days

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental & vision, and parental leave

• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

• Employee discounts on hims & hers & Apostrophe online products

• 401k benefits with employer matching contribution

• Offsite team retreats

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