Senior Technical Program Manager (f/m/d)
ContentfulDublin, Dublin, IrelandPosted 23 February 2026
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Job Description
<h2>About the opportunity</h2>
<p>We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Technical Program Manager (f/m/d) to lead large, cross-team programs and drive alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders within the Product Development (“ProdDev”) organization.</p>
<p>As a Senior Technical Program Manager (f/m/d), you will own one or more strategic programs that span multiple teams and functions. This role demands strong ownership; you'll be responsible for driving decisions to closure, ensuring follow-through, identifying risks early, and course correcting when programs fall behind.<br>You will be accountable for program structure, execution, communication, and outcomes, bringing stability and continuity across long-running initiatives. Success in this role requires exceptional stakeholder management, the ability to influence without authority, and a strong grasp of program management fundamentals applied at scale.<br>While technical fluency is important, your primary value will come from driving alignment, surfacing risks early, managing dependencies, and enabling teams to deliver effectively together.<br><br>This role is ideal for a Technical Program Manager (f/m/d) who excels at <strong>orchestrating complex, multi-team initiatives</strong>, managing senior stakeholders, and providing clarity, structure, and momentum in environments with ambiguity and competing priorities</p>
<h2>What to expect?</h2>
<ul>
<li>Lead end-to-end program management for complex, multi-team technical initiatives, from strategy and planning through execution and delivery</li>
<li>Primary point of contact for senior stakeholders, accountable for ensuring clear communication, expectation management, and alignment across engineering, product, security, legal and other business functions</li>
<li>Break down high-level strategic objectives into clear program plans, including scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and success metrics</li>
<li>Coordinate and align multiple teams with different roadmaps, priorities, and constraints toward shared outcomes</li>
<li>Responsible for driving and closing alignment decisions between multiple teams with different roadmaps, priorities and constraints to ensure shared outcomes</li>
<li>Proactively identify risks, trade-offs, and bottlenecks; drive decision-making and resolution by bringing the right stakeholders together at the right time</li>
<li>Establish and maintain program governance, including operating rhythms, status reporting, KPIs, and executive-ready communications.</li>
<li>Ensure transparency and accountability by maintaining accurate program artifacts in tools such as JIRA and Confluence</li>
<li>Champion operational excellence, continuous improvement, and scalable program practices across the organization</li>
</ul>
<h2>What you need to be successful</h2>
<ul>
<li>7+ years of experience in Technical Program Management or a similar role with a strong track record of leading large, cross-functional, multi-team programs</li>
<li>Demonstrated expertise in stakeholder management, including influencing senior leaders and aligning diverse groups with competing priorities </li>
<li>You align stakeholders despite disagreement, push back when appropriate, and move decisions forward by clearly defining priorities and trade-offs</li>
<li>Proven ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, bringing structure, clarity, and momentum</li>
<li>Strong program management fundamentals, including dependency management, risk mitigation, roadmap alignment, and metrics-driven execution</li>
<li>Solid technical fluency, with experience partnering closely with engineering teams (AI/ML, platforms, workflows, automations, analytics, or similar domains are a plus)</li>
<li>Proficiency in program and project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall)</li>
<li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to stay clear and composed under pressure, nav ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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