Senior Manager, Program Management
Lead cross-functional program management and operational strategy initiatives. Drive process optimization, roadmap execution, and data-informed decision-making across business and technology teams.
Senior BPM, Developer Experience Programs
Leads cross-functional programs to measure and improve developer experience, prioritizing AI-accelerated software delivery. Owns tooling evaluations, pilots, portfolio governance, and measurement platforms, partnering with engineering, security, IT, and finance teams. Requires 5+ years in technical program management.
115k – 161kUnited StatesTechnical Program ManagementRemote5+ YOE
About the role
Responsibilities
- Translate developer experience signals into program priorities.
- Synthesize tooling data, measurement outputs, pilot results, and developer feedback into actionable insights.
- Bring insights into portfolio planning, measurement reviews, and roadmap conversations with partner teams.
- Turn insights into clear recommendations on where to invest, expand, rationalize, or retire tools and related programs.
Developer Experience Measurement Program
- Own day-to-day program leadership: coverage, data quality, reporting cadences, and operational use of signals.
- Partner with Platform Engineering on metrics platform priorities, instrumentation, and data integrity.
- Build operating mechanisms to make developer experience and tooling data useful for decision-making.
- Support investment and portfolio decisions with adoption reporting, usage analysis, and impact-oriented recommendations.
- Evolve measurement model for AI-native work.
Developer Tooling Evaluation, Pilots, and Portfolio Governance
- Own intake, prioritization, and evaluation workflows for developer tools across SDLC, focusing on AI tooling.
- Maintain evaluation frameworks, decision criteria, and review mechanisms.
- Design and run structured pilots with hypotheses, baselines, success criteria, and decision points.
- Coordinate security review, integration approval, and governance.
- Partner with IT, Finance, and Procurement on provisioning, licensing, renewals, and cost visibility.
Compensation (USA-based)
Annual base salary: $115,000 - $161,000 USD, plus benefits (health, dental, 401k), PTO, equity grant, incentive programs.
Requirements
- 5+ years leading complex cross-functional programs in technical organizations.
- Background in developer experience, productivity, engineering effectiveness, internal platform programs, or technical program management.
- Familiarity with AI-accelerated development workflows, tools, adoption, and measurement challenges.
- Working knowledge of developer productivity frameworks (DORA, SPACE, DX Core 4).
- Ability to design evaluation frameworks, structure pilots, synthesize quantitative/qualitative inputs into recommendations.
- Strong judgment in ambiguity, structuring messy inputs, clarifying tradeoffs.
- Comfort partnering with engineering/technical leaders without being an engineer.
- Experience coordinating with Security, IT, Finance, Procurement.
- Strong written/verbal communication for executive recommendations.
Nice to Have
- Direct experience with AI developer tools (coding assistants, code review, agent frameworks).
- Hands-on with developer productivity platforms (DX, Jellyfish, LinearB).
- Background in software engineering, engineering management, or technical program management.
Skills
DoraSpaceDx Core 4Ai Developer ToolsCoding AssistantsCode Review ToolsAgent FrameworksJellyfishLinearbDeveloper Productivity MeasurementPilot FrameworksMetrics Platforms
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