Senior Technical Program Manager - AppEx
$166,000–$238,000 year
On-siteMenlo Park, California, United States
Job Summary
Own and drive complex, cross-functional programs across AppEx engineering teams spanning application surfaces, developer tooling, and AI-powered experiences from scoping through delivery. Partner with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and Principal Engineers to define roadmaps, surface dependencies, and execution plans. Serve as connective tissue across sub-orgs including Applications, Notebooks, Native Apps, Drivers, and the Developer Platform to keep programs aligned. Establish reporting cadences tracking milestones, risks, and engineering health while escalating issues to leadership. Drive cross-org alignment on shared APIs and feature launches. Identify systemic friction in planning and delivery to design lightweight processes and tooling-backed workflows that improve engineering velocity. Represent AppEx programs to senior leadership with data-backed status and recommendations.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of technical program management experience at a cloud software company
- Track record of owning complex, cross-team programs end-to-end
- Deep familiarity with developer-facing products or platform engineering
- Demonstrated ability to work directly with engineers and architects, going deep on technical design when needed
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills: driving alignment across Engineering, Product, Design, and Go-to-Market without formal authority
- Comfort operating in ambiguity
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Experience with modern cloud-native software development lifecycle, including CI/CD, release management, and API-first development
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
Desired Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake, data platforms, or developer tooling products (Streamlit, Notebooks, Native Apps, Spark, etc.)
- Prior exposure to AI/ML product development programs or agentic application delivery
- Experience driving developer ecosystem programs — SDKs, drivers, or developer relations-adjacent work
- Familiarity with program management tooling (Linear, Jira, Shortcut) and data-driven program health dashboards
- Prior experience in a high-growth, post-IPO technology company environment
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