Senior Technical Program Manager

Thumbtack

Remote regions

US

Salary range

$159,800–$243,100/yr

Benefits

Role Responsibilities:

  • Own program management for the Productivity Engineering team, extending across DevEx, Client Infrastructure, Backend Infrastructure, and Site Reliability Engineering.
  • Drive large-scale platform migrations and tooling adoptions across multi-quarter timelines, developing playbooks and securing partner commitments.
  • Manage stakeholder alignment across engineering leadership to ensure program visibility, clear prioritization, and sustained momentum.

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years in Technical Program Management within platform engineering, developer experience, or infrastructure, including leading multi-team, multi-quarter platform rollouts.
  • Strong technical fluency across CI/CD, build systems, code review tooling, microservices, containerization, observability, and cloud-native platforms.
  • Fluency in the AI developer tooling landscape, including coding assistants, agentic workflows, and cloud dev environments.

Program Impact:

  • Define success through developer adoption and productivity impact, using frameworks like DORA, SPACE, and GetDX to keep the roadmap grounded in real needs.
  • Drive AI developer tooling strategy and adoption, including agentic workflow enablement, tool consolidation, and ROI measurement.
  • Own the Platform Engineering team's Roadmap and OKR planning cycles to ensure successful execution and attainment.

Thumbtack

Thumbtack is a home care platform providing homeowners with AI tools, personalized guidance, and a hiring experience to connect with local service professionals. It is a growing company with a community of 300,000 service businesses and a culture focused on making a significant impact through technology.

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