Founding Technical Program Manager

Job description

About the Role We’re hiring the first Technical Program Manager to join a newly formed Technical Program Management function, reporting to the Head of TPM. This is a founding role, you’ll help design and build how strategic, cross-functional work gets delivered across a global organization. TPMs at Supabase own the connective tissue between teams and between functions, managing the dependencies of our largest programs, and author and maintain/improve the standard of using Linear. This role is a strong fit for someone who has a genuine curiosity about ambiguous, complex problems, is self-directed and has conviction in their craft. What You'll Be Responsible for Partner with Engineering, Product, Design (EPD) and other stakeholder to structure and drive complex, cross-team initiatives; clarifying scope and value, securing commitment across a distributed organization, setting timelines, and leading activities from design through launch. Design systems by building the tracking, reporting, and escalation mechanisms that surface risk and progress. Build process to ensure launch readiness is predictable, consistent and coordinated across all cross-functional participants. Ask the questions that clarify priority and scope, giving async teams the context to keep building and unblocking. Build trusted relationships with stakeholders and maintain transparency into program goals, commitments, risk and delivery quality, primarily through clear written communication. Identify bottlenecks before they become blockers, develop options to resolve them, and clearly communicate the trade-offs that each option carries. Map dependencies and relationships across projects and teams, coordinating delivery across groups that don’t share reporting lines. Keep Engineering, Product, and Design accountable for their own delivery outcomes while you track, surface risk, and unblock. Develop technical and domain fluency to be an active and credible member of the delivery team and triad. You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have 7+ years of experience in technical program management for software, SaaS or systems development environments A track record of leading large-scale, cross-team software delivery programs to successful completion. Comfort operating in a fully remote, async-first environment The ability to communicate clearly and quickly build credibility with both technical and non-technic…