Senior Staff Technical Program Manager

GEICO•Bethesda, MD

2d•Remote

About The Position

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. The Team We are seeking a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager to join the Strategy, Analytics, and Operations team that supports GEICO’s foundational platforms. In this role, you will manage, orchestrate, and drive execution of the foundational platform roadmap. Ensuring work stays aligned with business goals, architectural standards, risk and compliance requirements, emerging technology adoption, and long-term scalability. You’ll support the coordinated delivery of foundational capabilities that power how GEICO builds, secures, operates, and scales technology, including PaaS platforms, infrastructure services, cybersecurity platforms, enterprise IT, data platforms, SRE capabilities, developer experience tooling, and workforce productivity solutions. Working across engineering teams and leaders, you’ll manage dependencies, sequencing, and delivery across domains, enabling teams across the enterprise to deliver faster, operate reliably, and innovate with confidence. The Role In this role, you’ll get to act as a trusted advisor to executive and senior leaders, helping translate strategy and technical concepts into clear business outcomes and confident decisions. You’ll get to lead cross functional planning, intake, prioritization, and sequencing, making sure teams stay aligned, and dependencies are thoughtfully managed. You’ll help guide the foundation strategy and roadmap, balancing investment, scalability, cost efficiency, and long-term business value. You’ll get to define and evolve platform KPIs and success metrics, like adoption, resiliency, developer experience, time-to-market, and operational health. You’ll then bring those metrics to life through monitoring and reporting frameworks that show real impact. You’ll drive execution of complex, multiteam enterprise platform programs, managing risks, milestones, and change across engineering, product, and operations. Along the way, you’ll help ensure scalability and repeatability through strong documentation and operational practices.

Requirements

10+ years in program/portfolio management working across large scale enterprise platforms in data engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and developer engineering and/or financial tech.
Passion for improving how teams build, operate, and scale technology, with a focus on driving meaningful organizational transformation.
Able to engage deeply with engineering leaders while staying grounded in business outcomes and value.
Experienced in building and presenting dashboards, roadmaps, and impact stories using tools like PowerBI, Tableau, or internal visualization platforms.
A strong track record of driving complex, high-impact initiatives, navigating ambiguity, managing risk and dependencies, and influencing measurable outcomes across technology, business, and product.
Comfortable operating in highly ambiguous, rapidly changing environments, with intention and focus in bringing clarity, structure, and momentum as priorities and conditions evolve.
Known for building trust, supporting inclusion, and creating environments where all teammates feel supported and able to do their best work.
Articulates complex technical topics to nontechnical and executive audiences through clear narratives and storytelling.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field required.

Responsibilities

Manage, orchestrate, and drive execution of the foundational platform roadmap.
Ensure work stays aligned with business goals, architectural standards, risk and compliance requirements, emerging technology adoption, and long-term scalability.
Support the coordinated delivery of foundational capabilities that power how GEICO builds, secures, operates, and scales technology.
Manage dependencies, sequencing, and delivery across domains.
Act as a trusted advisor to executive and senior leaders, helping translate strategy and technical concepts into clear business outcomes and confident decisions.
Lead cross functional planning, intake, prioritization, and sequencing.
Guide the foundation strategy and roadmap, balancing investment, scalability, cost efficiency, and long-term business value.
Define and evolve platform KPIs and success metrics, like adoption, resiliency, developer experience, time-to-market, and operational health.
Bring metrics to life through monitoring and reporting frameworks that show real impact.
Drive execution of complex, multiteam enterprise platform programs, managing risks, milestones, and change across engineering, product, and operations.
Ensure scalability and repeatability through strong documentation and operational practices.

Benefits

Personalized development programs
Industry leading training
Certification assistance
Career mentorship and coaching
Inclusive culture of shared success
Culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging
Employee engagement and recognition programs
Compensation and benefits built to enhance physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future
Comprehensive Total Rewards program
Market-competitive compensation
401K savings plan vested from day one with a 6% match
Performance and recognition-based incentives
Tuition assistance
Mental healthcare
Fertility assistance
Adoption assistance
Workplace flexibility
GEICO Flex program (ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year)