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Rover.com

Staff Technical Program Manager – Cross-Functional Programs

Rover.com

. Identify cross-organizational programs Rover needs and build the case to establish them .

Posted 10/22/2026full-timeSeattle • Washington • United StatesLead💰 $182,290 - $227,863 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive experience in driving complex, cross-functional technical programs with a focus on aligning stakeholders and managing risks. Proficient in program management, including defining scope, ownership, and success measures while leveraging AI tools for automation and workflow improvement.

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11+ Years Driving Complex ProgramsStrong Program Management SkillsTechnical Acumen in Dependency EvaluationExperience Mentoring TPMsAbility to Communicate Across Teams

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Hard Skills
Program ManagementRisk ManagementKPI Definition and ReportingDecision-Making CadenceTechnical Program OwnershipScope DefinitionSuccess MeasuresDependency EvaluationTrade-Off AnalysisPost-Launch Measurement
Soft Skills
Judgment Under UncertaintyStakeholder AlignmentRelationship BuildingMentoringCommunication Skills
Tools & Technologies
AI ToolsAutomation FrameworksCustom Workflows
Industry Keywords
Cross-Functional ProgramsConsumer TechMarketplaceSaaSTechnical Domains

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Identify cross-organizational programs Rover needs and build the case to establish them
  • Define problem statements, scope, decision ownership, and success measures
  • Own execution strategy across concurrent programs, including priorities, sequencing, and ownership
  • Drive decisions by framing trade-offs, making recommendations, and securing decision-maker alignment
  • 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, mitigate risks, and connect program metrics to engineering OKRs and department strategy
  • Maintain program artifacts including charters, plans, dependency maps, risk registers, and decision logs
  • Own launch and delivery readiness and measure outcomes after go-live
  • Extend AI-tool usage to automate reporting and tracking and improve program workflows
  • Ramp quickly in unfamiliar domains and build relationships and credibility
  • Connect Seattle and Barcelona teams and shape Rover’s TPM practice through mentoring, hiring, and process development

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 11+ years driving complex, cross-functional technical programs
  • Track record of owning several high-complexity, ambiguous programs at once, end to end, across domains
  • Ability to identify and stand up programs, define scope, ownership, decision rights, and success measures
  • High agency in driving decisions and aligning stakeholders through senior leadership
  • Judgment under uncertainty, including when to decide, wait, escalate, or absorb risk
  • 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 management, and post-launch measurement
  • Ability to communicate technically and non-technically across globally distributed teams
  • Experience mentoring TPMs or peers, interviewing and hiring, and building adopted processes
  • Experience pushing AI tools further through automation, custom workflows, or frameworks
  • Nice to have: depth in more than one technical domain
  • Nice to have: experience at a marketplace, consumer tech, or SaaS company

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