Director, Tpm

Apollo.io Apollo.io · Enterprise · United States · Engineering

This role is for a Director, Technical Program Management at Apollo.io, an AI-powered go-to-market platform. The TPM will drive complex, high-impact cross-functional programs, define planning and execution mechanisms, and ensure predictable delivery. The role emphasizes using AI tools to enhance program management and build AI-driven workflows. While the company is AI-native and the role involves using AI tools, the core craft is program management, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive the largest and most complex cross-functional programs end-to-end, from framing the problem through to landing the outcome.
  2. Set the standard for how complex programs are run, and raise the bar for program execution across engineering.
  3. Own the delivery mechanics of the organization: planning, dependency and risk management, and the operating cadence that keeps programs on track.
  4. Make delivery predictable and visible, with clear owners, timelines, and status that leadership can trust.
  5. Drive cross-team coordination, unblock dependencies, and surface and manage risk early.

Skills

Required

  • Deep experience as a technical program manager driving large, complex, cross-functional engineering programs to delivery in a fast-moving software company.
  • Strong technical grounding, credibility with senior engineers, and the ability to go deep on tradeoffs.
  • Excellent written communication and stakeholder management across engineering, product, and the executive level.
  • Strong judgment on delivery mechanics: planning, dependencies, risk, and operating cadence.
  • Genuine fluency with AI tools and a habit of using them to raise leverage.

Nice to have

  • AI tools to run large programs single-handedly, from planning and tracking to status and reporting
  • build AI-driven workflows that raise your leverage and make the whole organization faster

What the JD emphasized

  • drive technical program management for Engineering’s most complex, high-impact cross-functional programs
  • build the operating mechanisms that make execution predictable
  • Drive the largest and most complex cross-functional programs end-to-end
  • Set the standard for how complex programs are run
  • Own the delivery mechanics of the organization
  • Make delivery predictable and visible
  • Drive cross-team coordination, unblock dependencies, and surface and manage risk early
  • Partner with engineering and product leadership to turn strategy into sequenced, resourced plans
  • use AI tools to run large programs single-handedly
  • build AI-driven workflows that raise your leverage
  • Deep experience as a technical program manager driving large, complex, cross-functional engineering programs to delivery
  • Genuine fluency with AI tools and a habit of using them to raise leverage