Program Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree with experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other related discipline.
• 8+ years recent experience as a Technical Program Manager or similar role at a technology company.
• Experience working with platform engineers and large-scale distributed systems.
• You can speak to system architecture, scalability and reliability decisions, and design trade offs.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with confidence, clarity, and focus.
• Able to convey concepts and considerations to non-experts and experts alike.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to collaborate and build relationships across organizations, bridge gaps between teams, and successfully influence without authority.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• A willingness to roll up your sleeves and dive into the details to understand and drive your programs.
• Direct engagement with Engineering teams on product development with a thorough understanding of software development processes.
• Project planning and execution skills that include reviewing technical design documents, estimating, and scheduling.
• Excellent attention to detail and understanding of impact when changes occur to scope or timeline.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in a startup environment desired.
• Experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other related disciplines desired.

Responsibilities

• Owning Marketplace Programs - You will partner closely with Consumer Platform, Marketplace, Merchant, and New Verticals organizations, as well as key engineering and product leaders to establish the vision, strategy, technical direction and success metrics for our platform teams. Focus areas for your programs will include data quality, operational excellence, product launches and platform enhancements.
• Planning & Execution Optimization - You will drive optimization related to planning Engineering objectives and key results, develop frameworks for team execution/tracking, and provide visibility to resource allocation and prioritizations.
• Domain Technical Depth - You will develop a full understanding of our technical stack and interdependencies, allowing you to contribute to designs and ensure they are scalable, reliable, and efficient.
• Stakeholder Management - Manage expectations for all stakeholders from leadership to individual teams, possess strong problem solving and negotiation skills, and earn trust of partners and teams.
• Navigating the Organization - Understand engineers and enjoy working with them, building trust by developing strong technical domain knowledge that adds value beyond project management.
• Communications - Manage timely and succinct communications to leadership and across teams to ensure accountability and timeline management.
• Process - Develop processes to ensure teamwork is streamlined to manage complexity and optimized velocity. You are thoughtful about how and when to implement processes with a light touch and clear understanding of success within DoorDash’s culture.
• Time Management - Balance urgency and priority while moving the needle on multiple initiatives.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• wellness benefits
• commuter benefits match
• paid time off
• paid sick leave
• medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• disability and basic life insurance
• family-forming assistance
• mental health program