Staff Technical Program Manager

Alteryx•Irvine, CA

About The Position

Alteryx is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager (P5) to lead its most strategic platform and trust transformation initiatives and drive business-critical metrics. The role oversees execution across multiple engineering organizations while influencing technical strategy, operating models, and organizational priorities that support the long-term evolution of the Alteryx platform. The Staff TPM partners with Engineering, Product, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, SRE, and executive leadership to align investment strategy, resolve cross-organizational dependencies, establish scalable delivery mechanisms, and improve engineering effectiveness. The position is suited to someone with deep technical expertise, strong program leadership, systems thinking, and the ability to influence executives while addressing ambiguous, enterprise-scale challenges.

Requirements

Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale technical programs across multiple engineering organizations.
Ability to influence architecture, organizational priorities, and executive decision-making without direct authority.
Deep understanding of cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, infrastructure, security, identity, observability, and modern software architecture.
Experience managing multi-year technology transformation initiatives involving complex organizational dependencies.
Exceptional executive communication skills, including experience presenting to VP and C-level audiences.
Strong business acumen and ability to connect technical investments to measurable customer and business outcomes.
Expertise establishing program governance, delivery metrics, portfolio reporting, and organizational operating mechanisms.
Experience leveraging AI to improve engineering planning, execution, communication, and operational efficiency.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading platform modernization or cloud transformation initiatives.
Experience building or scaling TPM organizations.
Experience developing engineering operating models.
Enterprise SaaS, AI platform, analytics platform, or cloud infrastructure experience.
Experience supporting mergers, platform integrations, or large-scale technical transformations.
PMP, SAFe, Scrum, AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications.

Responsibilities

Own the strategy and execution of high-priority platform and trust initiatives spanning multiple engineering organizations.
Influence technical direction by partnering with architecture and engineering leaders to align long-term platform investments with business strategy.
Drive portfolio-level planning, sequencing, and prioritization across concurrent programs, balancing engineering capacity, customer commitments, and strategic objectives.
Establish operating mechanisms that improve organizational planning, dependency management, decision-making, and execution predictability.
Lead executive governance forums, quarterly planning, investment reviews, and cross-functional decision-making.
Anticipate organizational risks and proactively drive mitigation strategies.
Improve engineering effectiveness through scalable program management practices, metrics, automation, AI-assisted workflows, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Coach and mentor Senior TPMs and establish technical program management standards and best practices.