What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Program Manager position at Slickdeals?
About Slickdeals:
On a mission to bring the joy of discovering a great deal to shoppers, Slickdeals thrives on the active participation of its 10-million-strong community. Users share, upvote, and uncover the best prices on popular products from trustworthy brands.
With a robust track record of 25 years in business, marked by profitability and a thriving community that has saved more than $10 billion, Slickdeals is currently undergoing a transformation. As we evolve into a daily shopping destination for millions more, joining Slickdeals presents an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurially-minded builders to create an innovative deal discovery platform.
The Purpose:
We are seeking a Technical Program Manager (TPM) with experience in ecommerce and consumer web properties and a solid technical foundation to manage and align the technology roadmap with the product roadmap, while driving the execution of complex, high-impact initiatives. The ideal candidate will bring a deep understanding of Agile and traditional project management principles (Lean, Scrum, SAFe), combined with technical expertise and a proven track record of managing large, multi-team programs.
The TPM will play a critical role in managing stakeholder expectations at all levels, ensuring alignment between business priorities and technical solutions. This includes facilitating collaboration between product, engineering, and business teams, while effectively communicating project progress, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership. Strong proficiency in collaborating and communicating within Jira & Confluence or similar is essential to manage project workflows and maintain alignment across teams.
What You'll Do:
Technology & Product Roadmap Ownership
Required Qualifications:
Hybrid schedule visiting our San Mateo or Las Vegas office three days a week (Tues-Thurs).
Slickdeals Compensation, Benefits, Perks:
Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States.
Slickdeals is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other protected status. Slickdeals will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with the "Ban the Box" legislation. We may access publicly available information as part of your application.
Slickdeals participates in E-Verify. For more information, please refer to E-Verify Participation and Right to Work.
Slickdeals does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies and is not responsible for related fees.
On a mission to bring the joy of discovering a great deal to shoppers, Slickdeals thrives on the active participation of its 10-million-strong community. Users share, upvote, and uncover the best prices on popular products from trustworthy brands.
With a robust track record of 25 years in business, marked by profitability and a thriving community that has saved more than $10 billion, Slickdeals is currently undergoing a transformation. As we evolve into a daily shopping destination for millions more, joining Slickdeals presents an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurially-minded builders to create an innovative deal discovery platform.
The Purpose:
We are seeking a Technical Program Manager (TPM) with experience in ecommerce and consumer web properties and a solid technical foundation to manage and align the technology roadmap with the product roadmap, while driving the execution of complex, high-impact initiatives. The ideal candidate will bring a deep understanding of Agile and traditional project management principles (Lean, Scrum, SAFe), combined with technical expertise and a proven track record of managing large, multi-team programs.
The TPM will play a critical role in managing stakeholder expectations at all levels, ensuring alignment between business priorities and technical solutions. This includes facilitating collaboration between product, engineering, and business teams, while effectively communicating project progress, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership. Strong proficiency in collaborating and communicating within Jira & Confluence or similar is essential to manage project workflows and maintain alignment across teams.
What You'll Do:
Technology & Product Roadmap Ownership
- Manage the technology roadmap, ensuring it aligns with the overall product roadmap to meet business objectives.
- Collaborate with product and engineering managers to layer technical initiatives into the product roadmap, balancing feature delivery with platform scalability and performance improvements.
- Execute complex technical programs that enhance platform capabilities, including API integrations, cloud scalability, and personalization models.
- Evaluate and communicate the impact of technical decisions on the product roadmap, enabling stakeholders to make informed trade-offs between time, scope, and quality.
- Lead technical programs across multiple teams, ensuring milestones, deliverables, and timelines are met.
- Define and manage program scope, objectives, and key results while balancing competing demands and resource constraints.
- Manage sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release processes using Jira, ensuring project visibility and accountability.
- Drive end-to-end delivery of high-impact initiatives by orchestrating cross-team collaboration and resolving bottlenecks.
- Ensure continuous alignment between engineering, product, and business teams, mitigating risks and resolving conflicts to keep programs on track.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including senior leadership, product managers, and engineering teams.
- Set clear expectations on project timelines, deliverables, and potential risks while ensuring stakeholders remain informed and aligned throughout the program lifecycle.
- Regularly provide program updates, executive summaries, and status reports that communicate progress, blockers, and impact.
- Facilitate trade-off discussions by providing stakeholders with data-driven insights and realistic timelines, ensuring alignment on priority initiatives.
- Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, helping them understand technical challenges, potential impacts, and available solutions.
- Organize and facilitate Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives) to ensure high team velocity and focus.
- Drive Agile adoption across teams by coaching and mentoring on Agile best practices, while also applying traditional project management principles as needed.
- Facilitate the management of large, complex program-level initiatives that may consist of multiple Agile teams and require dependency management across teams.
- Promote a sustainable development pace with high-quality deliverables while reducing work-in-progress and making work visible.
- Act as the primary liaison between engineering, product, and business teams, ensuring seamless collaboration and alignment across initiatives.
- Partner with QA, DevOps, and security teams to ensure that all technical solutions meet quality, scalability, and compliance standards.
- Support product owners in managing stakeholder expectations, facilitating trade-off discussions, and implementing effective Agile project governance.
- Maintain comprehensive program documentation in Confluence, ensuring that project requirements, decisions, and outcomes are well-documented.
- Leverage GitHub to oversee code review processes, ensuring version control and adherence to best practices.
- Define and manage Agile performance metrics to track team agility, velocity, and delivery predictability, driving continuous improvement across the organization.
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks across programs by implementing robust mitigation plans and removing impediments.
- Analyze team performance metrics to identify bottlenecks and optimize workflows for increased efficiency.
- Champion ongoing process improvement initiatives, applying Agile techniques to enhance team agility and program outcomes.
Required Qualifications:
- Experience: 5 years of technical program management experience, preferably in an ecommerce or SaaS environment, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale technical programs.
- Technical Background: Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, APIs, microservices, cloud technologies, and ecommerce architectures.
- Agile Expertise: Deep knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) with the ability to lead Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and release management across multiple teams.
- Tool Proficiency: Expertise with Jira, Confluence, and GitHub for managing project workflows, documentation, and version control.
- Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to engage and align senior stakeholders, manage expectations, and provide transparency throughout the program lifecycle.
- Project Management Skills: Ability to balance technical and business trade-offs, ensuring alignment between product innovation and technical scalability.
- Communication Skills: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
- Experience managing large-scale ecommerce platforms with multiple dependencies across teams.
- Familiarity with APIs, microservices, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Certification in PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP is a plus.
- Demonstrated experience with Agile performance metrics to drive continuous improvement.
Hybrid schedule visiting our San Mateo or Las Vegas office three days a week (Tues-Thurs).
Slickdeals Compensation, Benefits, Perks:
- Competitive salary and equity
- Competitive paid time off in addition to holiday time off
- A variety of healthcare insurance plans to give you the best care for your needs
- 401K matching above the industry standard
- Professional Development Reimbursement Program and LinkedIn Learning Membership
Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States.
Slickdeals is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other protected status. Slickdeals will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with the "Ban the Box" legislation. We may access publicly available information as part of your application.
Slickdeals participates in E-Verify. For more information, please refer to E-Verify Participation and Right to Work.
Slickdeals does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies and is not responsible for related fees.