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Rover.com

Senior Technical Program Manager, Cross-Functional Programs

Rover.com

. Converge stakeholders on the problem, scope, decision ownership, and success measures .

Posted 9/16/2026full-timeSeattle • Washington • United StatesSenior💰 $153,430 - $181,715 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates strong program management skills with a focus on driving complex, cross-functional technical programs, including planning, risk identification, and post-launch measurement. Capable of aligning stakeholders and teams across organizational boundaries while utilizing AI tools for automation and workflow optimization.

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Program ManagementStakeholder AlignmentTechnical AcumenAI Tool AutomationCross-Functional Delivery

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Hard Skills
Program ManagementRisk IdentificationKPI DefinitionDependency EvaluationDecision-Making CadenceMetrics ReportingArchitecture ImplicationsTrade-Off AnalysisPost-Launch MeasurementWorkflow Optimization
Soft Skills
Judgment Under UncertaintyCommunication SkillsConflict ResolutionHigh AgencyCredibility Building
Tools & Technologies
AI ToolsAutomation FrameworksReporting ToolsWorkflow Tools
Industry Keywords
MarketplaceConsumer TechSaaSGlobally Distributed OrganizationTechnical Domains

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Converge stakeholders on the problem, scope, decision ownership, and success measures
  • Own execution strategy, sequencing, priorities, and cross-functional delivery
  • Drive decisions by framing trade-offs, making recommendations, identifying decision makers, and landing decisions
  • Align teams across organizational boundaries and resolve conflicting priorities
  • Partner with engineering on architecture implications, dependencies, data integrity, rollout, and cutover planning
  • Define and report KPIs for program health, risk, progress, and post-launch success
  • Maintain program artifacts including charters, plans, dependency maps, risk registers, and decision logs
  • Own launch and delivery readiness through go-live and subsequent measurement
  • Use AI tools to automate reporting and tracking and build workflows and frameworks
  • Ramp quickly in unfamiliar domains and build credibility with new teams
  • Connect Seattle and Barcelona teams and contribute to Rover’s TPM practice

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 8+ years driving complex, cross-functional technical programs
  • Experience ideally at a marketplace, consumer tech, or SaaS company
  • Track record of owning high-complexity, ambiguous programs end to end across multiple domains and stakeholder groups
  • Ability to work through ambiguous situations and incomplete or conflicting information
  • High agency in driving decisions and strong stakeholder alignment across organizational lines, including senior leadership
  • Judgment under uncertainty and ability to explain decisions
  • Technical acumen to read dependency chains, evaluate trade-offs, debate technical approaches, and identify sequencing and architectural risks
  • Strong program management skills, including planning, status processes, decision-making cadence, metrics, risk identification, and post-launch measurement
  • Ability to communicate technically and non-technically and bridge between both
  • Experience pushing AI tools further through automation, custom workflows, or frameworks
  • Nice to have: depth in more than one technical domain, such as platform/infrastructure, consumer product, payments, or data
  • Nice to have: experience running programs across a globally distributed organization and different time zones
  • Must be based in the Greater Seattle Area or willing to relocate

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive compensation
  • 401k match
  • Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout
  • Flexible PTO
  • Competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Commuter benefits
  • Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)
  • Pet benefits, including $1000 toward adopting your first dog or cat
  • Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs) and free catered lunches monthly
  • Regular team activities performed in-person and virtually
  • AI tools access for every team member