Rover.com · 1 hour ago
Director, Technical Program Manager
Seattle
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$188K/yr - $250K/yr
15+ years expRover.com is a company dedicated to connecting pet parents with trusted pet sitters and dog walkers. They are seeking a Director of Technical Program Management to lead and develop the TPM function, ensuring complex technical initiatives are effectively planned and executed across the organization.
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Responsibilities
Provide program leadership and execution guidance for high-impact, cross-functional initiatives, stepping in directly when appropriate while ensuring work is effectively driven by the right roles
Evolve how Rover plans, sequences, and delivers complex, cross-functional technical initiatives
Support alignment across teams by anticipating and addressing dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, and sequencing challenges in ambiguous environments
Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Design, and Data leaders to clarify ownership, scope, milestones, success metrics, and tradeoffs for major initiatives
Serve as a trusted partner to senior leaders, helping teams navigate ambiguity and make informed execution decisions across organizational boundaries
Build, manage, and mentor a small team of Technical Program Managers, coaching them on execution rigor, judgment, and cross-functional influence
Lead and develop the TPM function, establishing shared expectations, patterns, and practices that strengthen execution consistency and effectiveness over time
Provide data-driven visibility into execution health to enable faster decision-making, surface tradeoffs, and proactively address risks with senior leaders and executives
Define and use execution and program-level metrics to preserve strong outcomes while increasing consistency and leverage across initiatives
Serve as a trusted technical thought partner, bringing deep understanding of Rover’s systems, platforms, and architecture to planning and execution discussions
Ensure initiatives appropriately account for system design, reliability, security, scalability, and long-term maintainability
Drive a culture of accountability, ownership, and cross-functional trust that supports effective execution and strong collaboration across teams
Qualification
Required
15+ years of experience leading large-scale technical programs in complex engineering environments
Experience defining, shaping, and scaling a Technical Program Management function, including organizational structure, role definitions, engagement models with cross-functional partners, and the evolution of TPM practices over time
Proven success leading highly complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple teams and domains, often over multiple quarters, where execution decisions had clear customer or business impact
Strong technical foundation with the ability to understand and reason about complex, interconnected systems and architectures, including large, customer-facing platforms with reliability, scalability, and performance considerations
Excellent communication and influence skills across technical and non-technical audiences
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in highly ambiguous environments
Preferred
Background working with platform, infrastructure, or data teams
Experience in marketplace, consumer, or global products
Benefits
Competitive compensation
401k match
Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout
Flexible PTO
Competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
Commuter benefits
Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)
Pet benefits, including $1000 toward adopting your first dog or cat
Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs) and free catered lunches monthly
Regular team activities performed in-person and virtually
Company
Rover.com
At Rover, everyone has ownership of their work and the opportunity to make a true impact.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$360.9MKey Investors
T. Rowe PriceSilicon Valley BankSpark Capital
2023-11-29Acquired
2021-08-02Post Ipo Equity· $50M
2021-08-02IPO
Leadership Team
Brent Turner
Chief Executive Officer
Philip Kimmey
Co-Founder and Director of Software Development
Recent News
2025-10-28
San Diego Union-Tribune
2025-10-27
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