About the Role
We are looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to partner with Product, Engineering, and senior leadership on complex, high-impact initiatives across our marketplace organization. This role supports products and systems that power lead generation, partner experiences, and revenue operations. This is a high-trust, high-ambiguity individual contributor role where you will create structure, improve team execution, and help leaders make informed decisions.
Responsibilities
- Drive portfolio health and predictable delivery across complex, cross-functional programs.
- Create clear visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, tradeoffs, and required actions.
- Establish operating rhythms, dashboards, review cadences, and other mechanisms that improve execution across teams.
- Strengthen SDLC discipline, including intake, prioritization, sequencing, planning, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, release readiness, and operational handoffs.
- Coordinate work across Engineering, Product, Design, Data, Operations, and business stakeholders.
- Translate technical complexity into clear business context for directors, senior directors, executives, and cross-functional partners.
- Engage engineering teams credibly on systems, architecture, integrations, dependencies, technical tradeoffs, and delivery risk.
- Surface issues early, drive resolution, and create clear escalation paths when decisions or resources are needed.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to connect execution plans to customer, marketplace, and business outcomes.
- Help teams improve planning, communication, accountability, and delivery predictability without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Contribute to AI-forward ways of working, including AI-enabled workflows, automation, and decision support where they create meaningful value.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering program management, delivery leadership, or a related field; 10+ years is preferred.
- Demonstrated Staff-level impact across multiple teams, programs, or organizations.
- Experience creating operating mechanisms, driving portfolio-level visibility, and influencing director- and vice president-level stakeholders.
- Strong technical fluency across software development lifecycles, systems, services, APIs, data flows, integrations, dependencies, and technical tradeoffs.
- Experience improving execution discipline across teams through better governance, intake, prioritization, planning, risk management, or release practices.
- Experience working in product-focused software environments, customer-facing platforms, SaaS, consumer technology, marketplaces, or complex software organizations.
- Strong executive communication and the ability to tailor messages for engineering, product, business, and leadership audiences.
- Comfort operating with significant autonomy in ambiguous environments and bringing order to complex, shifting priorities.
- A track record of influencing outcomes without direct authority.
- Genuine interest in an individual contributor Staff TPM role. This is not a people-management position.
Skills
- Technical Program Management
- Engineering Program Management
- Delivery Leadership
- Software Development Lifecycles
- Systems
- Services
- APIs
- Data Flows
- Integrations
- Dependencies
- Technical Tradeoffs
- Governance
- Intake
- Prioritization
- Planning
- Risk Management
- Release Practices
- Executive Communication
- AI-enabled workflows
- Automation
- Decision Support
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Staff-level
Benefits
- Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
- Family forming benefits
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Flexible Time Off
- 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
- Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
- Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
- 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
- Free snacks and refreshments in each office location
About the Company
- Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home.
- Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.
- Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.
- Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.
