Director, Technical Program Management

Sirius XM • Washington, DC

4d

About The Position

As Director, Technical Program Management, you will define how complex, cross-system work gets done across Consumer Product (e.g., streaming and connected devices) and Automotive platforms, translating a strategic vision for Listener Experience into executable, measurable outcomes at scale. You will own the translation layer between product ambition and engineering reality, shaping roadmaps that are not just planned, but delivered. By leading and developing a team of Technical Program Managers, you will scale execution discipline across a portfolio of interdependent programs, ensuring the right work is sequenced, dependencies are actively managed, and delivery remains predictable. You will also help evolve how work gets done by leveraging AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve organizational effectiveness. As a technically credible leader, you will identify opportunities to reduce friction, accelerate delivery, improve insight, and increase team leverage through AI-assisted workflows, internal tooling, automation, and data-driven operating mechanisms. You will drive integration and interoperability across a rapidly expanding ecosystem of external partners including automakers, device manufacturers, and internal platform teams, ensuring that the Listener Experience product strategy is consistently realized across fragmented and evolving platforms. Your work will directly influence the scalability, reliability, and extensibility of the core SiriusXM listening platforms. You will establish and enforce program management standards that enable clear decision-making, transparent tradeoffs, and operational visibility across initiatives. Operating at the intersection of product, engineering, and external stakeholders, you will ensure that defined priorities are executed effectively despite technical complexity, organizational boundaries, and competing demands. Success in this role requires both deep technical credibility and strong business judgment—knowing when to invest in new capabilities, automation, and tooling, and when to simplify, standardize, or avoid unnecessary complexity. The net effect: consistent realization of strategic priorities, faster execution of high-impact initiatives, and a more scalable, resilient cross-platform Listener Experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Management or similar field, or equivalent experience, in lieu of a degree.
• 10+ years managing technical project management teams in a software development organization.
• 5+ years of people leadership, with a track record of building, coaching, and scaling high-performing teams.
• Experience in building distributed systems & highly available services using cloud computing services / architecture preferably using AWS.
• Experience working with advertising related technologies strongly preferred.
• Ability to simplify the technically complex and drive well-educated decisions across product, engineering, design, and data science representatives.
• Ability to communicate complexity simply and authoritatively at the executive level.
• Strong technical background with demonstrable ability to apply systems thinking across software architecture, platform ecosystems, data workflows, and organizational operating models.
• Strong technical background with demonstrable ability to apply systems thinking.
• Ability to proactively identify and mitigate technical risks throughout the delivery life-cycle.
• Exceptional cross-team collaboration; able to work across different functions, organizations, and reporting boundaries to get the job done.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools, large language models (LLMs), automation platforms, or AI-assisted development practices to improve productivity, accelerate delivery, automate workflows, or enhance decision-making.
• Experience building, implementing, or partnering on internal tools, automation solutions, APIs, dashboards, workflow orchestration platforms, or scalable operational capabilities.
• Ability to balance technical innovation with business priorities, exercising sound judgment regarding when to build, automate, buy, or simplify solutions.
• Technical experience in the following areas: Agile/Scrum methodologies, AI-assisted development and productivity tools, Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI platforms (e.g., OpenAI, Claude, Codex), Prompt engineering, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP), and LLM APIs, APIs, workflow automation, dashboards, data workflows, internal tools, and prototyping solutions, Jira, Wiki, GitHub, AWS
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the cross-org intake process focused on business value and standardization.
• Work with your product partners to facilitate roadmap planning and execution standards across the Consumer Product and Automotive organizations.
• Lead and grow a technical program management organization focused on end-to-end program deliverables across the organization.
• Define, implement and establish program management tools, techniques, and best practices that are uniquely aligned to project execution of cross-platform audio experience and product development initiatives.
• Identify and implement opportunities to leverage AI, automation, workflow orchestration, and data-driven insights to improve execution efficiency, operational visibility, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Work closely with your partners in Product, Engineering and Go-to-Market to ensure roadmaps are constantly maintained and well communicated.
• Partner as a technical liaison between stakeholders and engineering teams.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to evaluate and implement scalable technical solutions, including internal tools, APIs, dashboards, data workflows, and AI-assisted capabilities that improve organizational effectiveness.
• Communicate schedules, dependencies, issues, and risks across teams and to stakeholders.
• Lead program scoping with architecture, product. engineering, and senior leaders.
• Establish portfolio governance, operating mechanisms, executive reporting frameworks, and decision systems that improve transparency, prioritization, and execution across a complex portfolio of initiatives.
• Drive a culture of innovation and be an agent of change.
• Cultivate a culture that rewards aggressive pursuit of innovative solutions to problems.
• Be responsive to the business in proposing and developing new products and services.
• Identify opportunities to create new products and services that meet current and prospective market opportunities.
• Foster a builder culture by encouraging experimentation, rapid prototyping, AI-assisted development, and pragmatic adoption of emerging technologies where they create measurable business value.
• Attract and retain the high-caliber TPM talent needed to deliver against SiriusXM’s Product Roadmap through high-performance, on-time and on-budget development programs.
• This role will manage a geographically dispersed team.
• Lead, coach, and develop high-performing teams to foster career growth and professional development.
• Provide constructive feedback, conduct performance reviews, and guide team members in setting and achieving goals.
• Build and maintain an inclusive, collaborative team culture that encourages innovation and accountability.

Benefits

• The base salary for this position to be in the range of $190,100 to $220,000
• this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: Associate degree