Principal Technical Program Manager

ModernaTX • Seattle, WA

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

Moderna is seeking an experienced Principal Technical Program Manager to join its Digital Commercial Engineering team in Seattle, Washington. The role supports Moderna’s commercial work across multiple geographies, connecting business strategy with digital delivery and helping drive innovation and execution. The TPM partners with commercial stakeholders to understand digital and operational needs, translate requirements into technical roadmaps, and coordinate engineering, data, and product teams to deliver scalable, compliant digital solutions.

As a senior member of the organization, the TPM influences strategic prioritization, operational planning, and stakeholder engagement across geographies. The position leads complex programs from planning through delivery, promotes operational excellence and modern program management practices, and mentors TPMs and project managers. The working model is 70% in-office. The environment is smoke-free, alcohol-free, and drug-free. Employment is contingent on eligibility to access export-controlled information under U.S. law; only U.S. persons are eligible, and Moderna cannot sponsor non-U.S. persons for an export control license.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 10 years of overall professional experience, including at least 6 years in technical program management for complex, cross-functional software or digital initiatives.
• Experience managing large-scale technical programs involving multiple stakeholders across business and technology functions.
• Experience managing programs with multi-market scope.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to influence at multiple organizational levels.
• Demonstrated success partnering with business leaders to translate strategy into executable roadmaps.
• A degree in advanced technology, or at least 5 years of technical specialist, design, and architecture experience.
• Proven technical design and architecture skills.
• Experience with commercial digital systems, customer platforms, or enterprise-scale business systems supporting multiple geographies.
• Experience leading complex programs involving data platforms, data engineering, analytics, or data-intensive digital products, and partnering with Data and Engineering teams on architecture, dependencies, governance, and delivery.
• Familiarity with regulated industries such as biotech, pharma, or healthcare, including compliance, data privacy, and localization requirements.
• Ability to build, influence, and manage strong relationships with business and technical stakeholders across multi-geography teams.
• Mindset aligned with Moderna’s values: Bold, Relentless, Curious, and Collaborative.
• Evidence of Moderna mindsets: behaving like an owner and driving results beyond the job description; balancing strategy and execution; and prioritizing scalable, sustainable platform capabilities over point solutions.
• Must qualify as a U.S. person under U.S. export control laws to access export-controlled information; the company cannot sponsor non-U.S. persons for an export control license.

Nice To Haves

• Track record of balancing strategic priorities with hands-on execution and delivering measurable business outcomes through disciplined program leadership.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics as clear business insights.
• Experience partnering with distributed Data and Engineering organizations to deliver reusable platform capabilities for multiple products, markets, and business use cases.

Responsibilities

• Partner with commercial country teams to understand digital, customer, and business needs.
• Define and document business and technical requirements, translating them into deliverables that inform product and data direction, resourcing, and execution plans.
• Lead end-to-end program planning and execution, including integrated roadmaps, scope, schedules, dependencies, and budgets.
• Identify and mitigate program risks and challenges to support alignment, momentum, and on-time delivery.
• Facilitate collaboration among Product, Data, Engineering, and Business teams to reach consensus on technical and data solutions and deliver work on time and at high quality.
• Coordinate upstream and downstream data dependencies and partner with Engineering on enterprise data capabilities, quality, governance, and delivery across markets.
• Use data-informed prioritization and transparent reporting to communicate program progress, decisions, risks, and outcomes.
• Represent the Digital portfolio in leadership forums, communicate business impact, and influence strategic direction and alignment across commercial functions.
• Promote operational excellence, modern program management practices, process optimization, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor and coach TPMs and project managers and contribute to the maturity of the TPM discipline at Moderna Digital.

Benefits

• Competitive healthcare and voluntary benefit programs.
• Fitness, mindfulness, and mental health support.
• Family planning benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
• Paid time off, including vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown.
• Savings and investment programs.
• Location-specific perks and extras.
• Potential eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus, other incentive compensation, or equity award, subject to plan eligibility criteria and individual performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior