Technical Programme Manager - Planning

As a Technical Program Manager at Cornerstone OnDemand, you will play a crucial role in driving the planning, execution, and delivery of complex, cross-functional technical programs. Your strong technical foundation combined with exceptional program management skills will be key to orchestrating multiple workstreams and stakeholders toward shared outcomes. Role Overview: You will own end-to-end program management for large-scale, cross-functional technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams, products, and business units. This will involve building and maintaining detailed program plans, roadmaps, and schedules with clear dependencies, critical paths, and risk mitigation strategies. Tracking and reporting program health, progress, risks, and blockers to senior leadership and stakeholders through dashboards and executive summaries will also be part of your responsibilities. Key Responsibilities: - Manage program-level trade-offs across scope, timeline, quality, and resources with recommendations grounded in data and technical context. - Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to ensure release readiness, deployment coordination, and operational handoffs for program deliverables. - Define and drive Agile-at-scale practices across engineering teams to improve delivery predictability and velocity. Qualifications Required: - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - 3+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering project management, or a related role within software product organizations. - 2+ years of hands-on software engineering or technical lead experience. - Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, system architecture, distributed systems, and cloud platforms. - Familiarity with microservices architecture, API design, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices. - Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and scaling frameworks. - Proficiency with program management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Smartsheet, or MS Project. As a Technical Program Manager at Cornerstone OnDemand, you will play a crucial role in driving the planning, execution, and delivery of complex, cross-functional technical programs. Your strong technical foundation combined with exceptional program management skills will be key to orchestrating multiple workstreams and stakeholders toward shared outcomes. Role Overview: You will own end-to-end program management for large-scale, cross-functional technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams, products, and business units. This will involve building and maintaining detailed program plans, roadmaps, and schedules with clear dependencies, critical paths, and risk mitigation strategies. Tracking and reporting program health, progress, risks, and blockers to senior leadership and stakeholders through dashboards and executive summaries will also be part of your responsibilities. Key Responsibilities: - Manage program-level trade-offs across scope, timeline, quality, and resources with recommendations grounded in data and technical context. - Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to ensure release readiness, deployment coordination, and operational handoffs for program deliverables. - Define and drive Agile-at-scale practices across engineering teams to improve delivery predictability and velocity. Qualifications Required: - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - 3+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering project management, or a related role within software product organizations. - 2+ years of hands-on software engineering or technical lead experience. - Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, system architecture, distributed systems, and cloud platforms. - Familiarity with microservices architecture, API design, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices. - Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and scaling frameworks. - Proficiency with program management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Smartsheet, or MS Project.