# Director, TPM

**Company:** [Apollo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/apollo)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $274k – $393k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Technical Program Management, Program Management, Cross-Functional Coordination, dependency management, Risk Management, project planning, Stakeholder Management, written communication, AI Tools, engineering delivery
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> Leads Engineering’s highest-impact cross-functional programs, establishing planning, dependency, risk, and delivery mechanisms that make execution predictable. The role requires deep technical program management experience, strong engineering credibility, executive-level communication, and fluency with AI tools.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Drive the largest and most complex cross-functional programs end-to-end, from framing the problem through to landing the outcome.
- Set the standard for how complex programs are run and raise the bar for program execution across engineering.
- Own delivery mechanics, including planning, dependency and risk management, and the operating cadence that keeps programs on track.
- Make delivery predictable and visible, with clear owners, timelines, and status that leadership can trust.
- Drive cross-team coordination, unblock dependencies, and surface and manage risk early.
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to turn strategy into sequenced, resourced plans and keep them honest.
- Use AI tools to run large programs, from planning and tracking to status and reporting.
- Build AI-driven workflows that increase leverage and improve organizational speed.

## Requirements
- Deep experience as a technical program manager driving large, complex, cross-functional engineering programs to delivery in a fast-moving software company.
- Strong technical grounding and credibility with senior engineers, including the ability to go deep on tradeoffs.
- Excellent written communication and stakeholder management across engineering, product, and executive leadership.
- Strong judgment regarding planning, dependencies, risk, and operating cadence.
- Genuine fluency with AI tools and a habit of using them to increase leverage.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Total cash compensation: **$273,600–$393,400 USD**, inclusive of annual base salary and annual bonus as applicable.
- Tier 1 pay range for San Francisco, New York City, and Seattle: **$314,600–$393,400 USD**.
- Tier 2 pay range for all other US locations: **$273,600–$342,000 USD**.
- Additional benefits may include equity, company bonus, 401(k), paid holidays, flexible PTO, parental leave, employee assistance and wellbeing benefits, global travel coverage, life/AD&D/STD/LTD insurance, and FSA/HSA, medical, dental, and vision benefits.

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