Director Technical Program Manager

GEICO GEICO · Insurance · Bethesda, MD +1

Director Technical Program Manager to act as a strategic partner and force multiplier for the organization’s leadership, managing priorities, overseeing internal processes, and driving special horizontal initiatives. This role involves strategic planning, ensuring organizational operational efficiency, facilitating communication, and making data-driven decision support.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with engineering and cross-functional teams to define program requirements, set priorities, and establish scope, including defining the roadmap and long-term strategy.
  2. Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and changes effectively by optimizing scope, schedule, and resources accordingly.
  3. Communicate to stakeholders effectively and proactively.
  4. Partner with cross-functional teams to drive technical analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-implementation phases.
  5. Define and track key metrics and quality and performance indicators, driving cross-functional execution of program deliverables.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
  • 10+ years of experience managing highly technical engineering programs or products at scale, from inception to implementation
  • 8+ years of engineering or technical product / program management experience
  • utilize project management methodologies, tools (ADO), and best practices
  • gather user needs, requirements, and defining large scale program scope accordingly
  • operate autonomously across multiple teams & global regions, demonstrating critical thinking and thought leadership
  • work with technical leadership to develop systems, solutions, and products
  • concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly
  • communicate in a clear, concise, professional oral or written manner
  • follow complex instructions, resolve conflicts or facilitate conflict resolution, and have strong organization/priority setting skills
  • multi-task
  • learn and apply large amounts of technical and procedural information and follow processes that have been published

Nice to have

  • AI/ML experience

What the JD emphasized

  • managing highly technical engineering programs or products at scale, from inception to implementation
  • engineering or technical product / program management experience