Director, Technical Program Management

Location: Austin, TX

Category: Technology

Job ID: 2283

At Realtor.com®, we have among the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of real estate listings and the most engaged users across all the online real estate portals. Our mission is to make buying, selling, renting, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone.

Building your career? Build it better at Realtor.com®. Join us and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time.

At realtor.com, we are building products that empower millions of home buyers, renters, dreamers, and real estate professionals. We aim to radically simplify the home buying/selling process, and to help more people achieve the dream of home ownership. To help us achieve this mission, we are looking for a Director, Technical Program Management to drive product development collaboration, processes and execution.

In this role, you will work side by side with Product and Engineering leadership to drive operational consistency, scale best practices, and ensure visibility and accountability of work across teams. 

Director, Technical Program Management Responsibilities:

Work with engineering and product management leadership to define long-term strategy for the organization Translation of the strategy and platform/product requirements into technical requirements and solutions in collaboration with your partner teams and engineering counterparts Support the roadmap planning process to ensure that product, design and engineering leadership, as well as other stakeholders are aligned on deliverables  Define and lead technical execution strategy for multiple product and platform areas. Work with the team to develop end-to-end program plans, influence teams to deliver against them, and keep the org and leadership informed on progress. Manage, mentor, and grow the existing product technical program management teams. Drive internal process improvements across multiple teams and functions. Work with teams to set milestones, communicate program statuses, and identify/address potential setbacks. Work with engineering to ensure the team’s work focuses on the highest priority partner team and customer needs. Work across organizations to align plans, manage dependencies, drive execution, and deliver broad solutions. Responsible for people management – hiring, developing, and implementing organizational structure, delivering performance reviews, providing continual feedback, coaching and career growth.

Ideal Qualifications:

Strong technical background, great communication skills, effective cross-organization collaborator, and a proven program management background Demonstrated experience leading large projects across multiple software teams and organizations with strong dependencies, as well as building and growing an organization of TPMs The candidate must be able to thrive and succeed in a fast-paced environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities

10+ years of software industry experience, including systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management experience

10+ years of people management experience leading teams to deliver technical programs or products from inception to delivery

Experience building, growing, and leading a technical program management organization through design and execution of large product, infrastructure, tools and applications Analytical and problem-solving experience  Thorough understanding of modern software development lifecycles

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®

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. People are our foundation—the core that drives us passionately forward. 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.

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.

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