Senior Technical Program Manager

Boeing•Seattle, WA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Boeing's Global Talent, Development and Employee Experience organization has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join the Employee Listening, Organizational Research, and Talent Assessment Team in Seattle, WA. The person in this role will lead operational execution, program governance, and delivery infrastructure for a portfolio of survey research, executive assessment, and pre-hire assessment programs. This role is essential to ensuring our employee listening, organizational research, and talent assessment programs are delivered with operational rigor, scalable processes, and strong cross-functional alignment, enabling high-quality insights and timely business decisions. The Senior TPM partners closely with survey research and talent assessment scientists in a co-leadership model. Scientists own the scientific workstreams, including research design, methodology, psychometrics, analysis, interpretation, and related follow-through actions. The Senior TPM owns the program and project management workstreams, including planning, coordination, scheduling, governance, risk management, stakeholder communication, and execution control across both portfolio-level and workstream-level deliverables. The ideal candidate is a highly organized, hands-on leader who brings structure to complexity, manages multiple interdependent workstreams, drives accountability, and ensures delivery with rigor, transparency, and timeliness. The right person will also excel at driving cross-functional alignment, shaping operating mechanisms, influencing without authority, and making sound tradeoff recommendations in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Requirements

Master’s Degree in a relevant field (e.g., MBA, Project/Operations Management)
10+ years of relevant work experience such as technical program, project management or business operations
Experience with working on multiple projects/programs of various size and complexity
Experience managing or leading the planning and execution of integrated project plans (risks, issues, and stakeholder communications)
Experience working with scientific and technical teams
Experience leading cross-functional teams and working with senior leadership
Experience working independently in a fast paced environment with strict deadlines

Nice To Haves

Project management certifications such as PMP, CAPM, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP, or Scrum Master credentials
Experience in survey research, employee listening, executive or leadership assessment, or pre-hire/selection assessments
Experience leading multiple concurrent workstreams with competing priorities and dependencies
Experience coordinating global deployments, including localization and accessibility
Experience with psychometrics and validation practices
Experience with data platforms, analytics workflows, and reporting systems
Experience supporting enterprise-scale programs
Experience with process improvement, operating model design, and change management
Experience creating durable documentation, playbooks, and team knowledge systems
Experience adapting project management frameworks to applied research programs

Responsibilities

Owns end-to-end operational execution across programs and individual workstreams, from intake and prioritization through planning, launch readiness, delivery, and post-launch optimization.
Helps operationalize the research portfolio strategy, priorities, and success metrics, translating objectives into a prioritized roadmap with clear milestones and dependencies.
Leads individual workstreams as a project manager and execution owner, building project plans, tracking milestones, managing cadence, surfacing blockers, and driving decisions to keep work moving.
Proactively identifies risks, reconciles tradeoffs across scope, timeline, cost, and stakeholder value, and ensures delivery remains on track.
Maintains core program operations infrastructure, including status reporting, risk and issue logs, dependency tracking, decision logs, and change control.
Schedules and facilitates recurring team meetings, planning sessions, and stakeholder syncs to ensure consistent communication, alignment, and accountability across the team and broader cross-functional partners.
Leads the creation and upkeep of team strategy and operations documentation, including playbooks, process guides, and planning artifacts, ensuring they remain accurate, actionable, and accessible.
Helps design and continuously improve delivery excellence frameworks, workflows, and templates that support both scientific and operational delivery.
Builds visibility into program health, aligns stakeholders across teams, and ensures outputs are usable, accessible, and on time.
Defines and applies consistent readiness and acceptance criteria for key milestones, and when delivery is at risk, drives mitigation and recovery plans.
Partners with vendors, technical teams, Product, UX, analytics, and assessment scientists to coordinate data, platform, and workflow dependencies.
Supports quarterly planning, portfolio prioritization, and continuous improvement efforts that strengthen delivery quality and execution rigor, including retrospectives and root-cause analysis.
Helps balance near-term delivery needs with technical debt and longer-term platform and process investments.
Leads development of the program architecture and top level plans for a program.
Develops program organizational, work structures, top level program and execution plans.
Identifies key program level horizontal and vertical integration interfaces between major activities, teams, suppliers, partners and customers.
Facilitates the resolution of program issues.
Supports the program manager in leading program execution by coordinating program metrics.
Integrates the implementation of the Program Management Best Practices.
Implements customer and program communication and contact plans.