Director, Technical Program Management

BitGo•Palo Alto, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

BitGo is seeking a Director, Technical Program Management to build and lead the Technical Program Management (TPM) function within the R&D organization. This role is crucial for ensuring timely and predictable delivery of product, managing cross-team dependencies, and building trust between product teams and regulatory, compliance, legal, finance, and audit partners. The successful candidate will be responsible for the execution integrity across the product portfolio, managing complex programs such as acquisition integrations and legal-entity restructurings, and ensuring early escalation of any delivery risks. This is an execution-risk role at a public company where missed delivery on regulated commitments has significant consequences. The role involves establishing the product operating rhythm, including initiative status, launch readiness, and a blocker-escalation path with SLAs. The Director will also be responsible for building out the TPM team within the first year, starting by hands-on management of high-exposure programs and then hiring 1-2 additional TPMs.

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.
Experience running programs with examiner deadlines, audit findings, SOX-adjacent controls, or material-weakness remediation.
Understanding of how public-company audit exposure impacts program management.
Technically credible with platform engineering; ability 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.
Proficiency in writing-first operations; 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 entire portfolio.
Own delivery integrity, ensuring dates are met and programs are executed end-to-end.
Manage cross-team and cross-entity programs, including acquisition integrations, legal-entity restructurings, and partner/vendor migrations.
Escalate risks and deviations from plans and commitments early.
Build trust between product teams and regulatory, compliance, legal, finance, and audit partners.
Manage programs where product delivery intersects with control exposure, 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 items.
Identify and surface contradictions in goals, staffing, and dependencies before they impact quarter-end delivery.
Build a credible picture of 'keep-the-lights-on' load to accurately assess real capacity.
Run the execution-review cadence for the product organization, ensuring current and honest initiative status and launch readiness.
Establish and manage a working blocker-escalation path with SLAs.
Build the TPM function from scratch, starting as the first program manager and hiring 1-2 TPMs within the first year.
Set the standard for program management at BitGo, emphasizing outcome accountability, technical fluency, and a light-touch approach.