Director, Technical Program Management

BitGo•New York, NY

7h•$200,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

BitGo is seeking a Director, Technical Program Management to build and lead the Technical Program Management function from scratch within the R&D organization. This role is critical for ensuring timely and predictable delivery of product, managing cross-team and cross-entity programs, and building trust between product teams and regulatory, compliance, legal, finance, and audit partners. The position requires a strong focus on execution risk in a regulated financial environment, with a writing-first approach and the ability to operate through influence. The successful candidate will be responsible for portfolio dependency and capacity integrity, establishing the product operating rhythm, and building out the TPM team within the first year.

Requirements

8+ years in technical program management.
3+ years leading TPM teams or functions, ideally including founding one.
Delivery leadership experience in a regulated financial environment (e.g., examiner deadlines, audit findings, SOX-adjacent controls, material-weakness remediation).
Technically credible with platform engineering; able to read architecture discussions, pressure-test estimates, and engage in sequencing conversations with senior engineers.
Demonstrated experience with at least one of: M&A integration, legal-entity restructuring, or large multi-party partner migrations.
Ability to operate through influence in organizations where authority is split across reporting lines.
Writing-first operator; default artifacts are documents and dependency maps, not status meetings.

Nice To Haves

Crypto/digital-asset domain experience.
Regulated-fintech delivery scar tissue.

Responsibilities

Ensure timely and predictable delivery of product across the product portfolio.
Manage end-to-end execution of cross-team and cross-entity programs, including acquisition integrations, legal-entity restructurings, and partner/vendor migrations.
Escalate delivery risks and plan divergences early.
Build trust between product teams and regulatory, compliance, legal, finance, and audit partners.
Manage programs where product delivery and control exposure intersect, such as new-product regulatory review pipelines and remediation of audit findings.
Maintain a single source of truth for resource allocation, program timelines, and at-risk initiatives.
Surface contradictions and risks in program dependencies and capacity before they impact delivery.
Establish and run the execution-review cadence for the product organization, including initiative status, launch readiness, and a blocker-escalation path with SLAs.
Build out the Technical Program Management function, hiring 1-2 TPMs within the first year.
Set the standard for program management at BitGo, focusing on outcome accountability, technical fluency, and a light-touch approach.