Sr. Technical Program Manager

Sr. Technical Program ManagerSan Francisco, CAAbout This RoleAs a Senior TPM at UnitedMasters, you'll manage the overarching portfolio of programs within your workstreams. You'll have a large scope of responsibility and influence; partnering with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, UX Designers, as well as cross functional stakeholders in Marketing, Legal, Finance, etc. to build products that align with the organization's goals. You'll understand technical concepts and meaningfully contribute to conversations about technical solutions while being responsible for delivering the roadmap with limited supervision. Key competencies for this role include: influencing and leadership, program planning, driving results, managing ambiguity, and ensuring accountability. This role requires five years of experience as a TPM in a similarly sized company or industry.What You'll DoLead the day-to-day program management of multiple work streams across the software development lifecycle, including product strategy, technical design, implementation, experimentation, and go-to-market (GTM)Ensure feature development tracks toward deliverables; proactively identify and resolve blockers, including dependencies on other teamsManage cross-team dependencies across other scrum teams, strategic partners, Design, and QADrive alignment on commitments across multiple teams (Tech, Marketing, Business Development, QA) to achieve goalsAssist teams in getting back on track when deadlines are missed by creating and socializing new plans to ensure alignment across engineering teams and stakeholdersServe as a reliable representative and point of contact for your vertical alongside the PM and EMBring structure to your workstreams by working through ambiguous situations, gathering appropriate stakeholders and owners to discuss issues, and pushing for solutionsHold multiple teams accountable to their commitments, creating reasonable delivery timelines for upstream work (UX, PRD, Data Science) and downstream work (GTM)Manage, motivate, and hold accountable engineering leads and team membersProvide technical transparency through clear and concise summaries for the programs you own to a wide range of audiences, both technical and non-technicalKnowledge, Skills and AbilitiesDemonstrated understanding of established project management methodologies and tools to develop and execute product roadmapsDemonstrated ability to integrate GenAI tools into day-to-day program management, including generating AI-assisted first drafts of program artifacts, redesigning manual workflows into AI-first mechanisms, and synthesizing data signals to surface risks, decisions, and trade-offsStrong technical understanding that enables meaningful contribution to conversations about technical solutionsAbility to balance shifting priorities and pivot when necessaryExcellent communication (verbal and written), presentation, organizational, and planning skillsAbility to influence, connect, and collaborate with a variety of groups and personalities, both technical and non-technical, at all levels of the organizationComfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, and able to adapt to the needs and styles of other teams and organizationsSelf-starter with creative problem-solving skills and the ability to work with limited supervisionMinimum Qualifications3+ years of experience as a technical program manager in a similarly sized company or industryExperience launching user-facing technologies at a high quality barExperience managing stakeholders and cross-organizational dependenciesProven track record of delivering product roadmaps with limited supervisionExperience using agile project management tools, such as JiraPreferred QualificationsAdept at building relationships cross-functionally and gaining alignment with business partnersExperience mentoring junior team members and/or cross-functional collaboratorsBroad understanding of the music technology space, with the ability to go deep into the details, to think big, and to roll up your sleevesAbout UnitedMastersUnitedMasters empowers brands and artists to forge authentic connections with audiences at scale by bringing together culture, technology and storytelling. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their Masters and up to 100% of royalties. UnitedMasters has over 1.3 million artists on its platform and is growing rapidly. Brands like Diageo, Ally, and ESPN come to UnitedMasters to partner with these artists and play a role in moving culture forward. In the past year, UnitedMasters subscribers have grown rapidly. With $170M raised to date and valued at $550M, UnitedMasters is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Apple, Alphabet (aka Google), and Disney amongst others.Salary Hiring Range: $160,000 - $190,000 (SF)As a company, we have a location-based strategy, which means the salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired in another location. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide (e.g. bonus, stock options, 401(k) match, etc.)Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.