Staff Technical Program Manager

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

About The Position

Realtor.com® is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager to partner with Product, Engineering, and senior leadership on complex, high-impact initiatives across their marketplace organization. This role supports products and systems that power lead generation, partner experiences, and revenue operations. The role may focus on Lead Services (consumer marketplace and lead products) or Enterprise Systems (billing, sales tooling, and commercial systems). This is a high-trust, high-ambiguity individual contributor role focused on creating structure, improving team execution, and enabling informed decision-making across multiple programs and workstreams.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering program management, delivery leadership, or a related field; 10+ years is preferred.
Demonstrated Staff-level impact across multiple teams, programs, or organizations.
Experience creating operating mechanisms, driving portfolio-level visibility, and influencing director- and vice president-level stakeholders.
Strong technical fluency across software development lifecycles, systems, services, APIs, data flows, integrations, dependencies, and technical tradeoffs.
Experience improving execution discipline across teams through better governance, intake, prioritization, planning, risk management, or release practices.
Experience working in product-focused software environments, customer-facing platforms, SaaS, consumer technology, marketplaces, or complex software organizations.
Strong executive communication and the ability to tailor messages for engineering, product, business, and leadership audiences.
Comfort operating with significant autonomy in ambiguous environments and bringing order to complex, shifting priorities.
A track record of influencing outcomes without direct authority.
Genuine interest in an individual contributor Staff TPM role. This is not a people-management position.

Nice To Haves

Marketplace, ecommerce, consumer technology, or customer-platform experience.
Programs involving high-volume matching or routing, lead delivery, transaction or billing systems, partner integrations, or real-time data pipelines.
Experience with AI-enabled products, automation, machine learning workflows, or responsible AI adoption.
Experience establishing Definition of Ready/Done practices, release governance, operational readiness, or cross-team delivery standards.
Experience supporting cloud-native products and modern software engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

Drive portfolio health and predictable delivery across complex, cross-functional programs.
Create clear visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, tradeoffs, and required actions.
Establish operating rhythms, dashboards, review cadences, and other mechanisms that improve execution across teams.
Strengthen SDLC discipline, including intake, prioritization, sequencing, planning, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, release readiness, and operational handoffs.
Coordinate work across Engineering, Product, Design, Data, Operations, and business stakeholders.
Translate technical complexity into clear business context for directors, senior directors, executives, and cross-functional partners.
Engage engineering teams credibly on systems, architecture, integrations, dependencies, technical tradeoffs, and delivery risk.
Surface issues early, drive resolution, and create clear escalation paths when decisions or resources are needed.
Partner with product and engineering leaders to connect execution plans to customer, marketplace, and business outcomes.
Help teams improve planning, communication, accountability, and delivery predictability without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
Contribute to AI-forward ways of working, including AI-enabled workflows, automation, and decision support where they create meaningful value.