Staff Technical Program Manager

Cribl · Enterprise · CA · Engineering

This role is for a Staff Technical Program Manager at Cribl, a company focused on building telemetry infrastructure for the AI era. The TPM will lead complex product development programs, manage schedules, identify risks, and drive best practices in software development. The role requires experience delivering complex projects across different groups, strong communication and influencing skills, and a working knowledge of AI concepts like machine learning, model lifecycle, and data pipelines. The company is remote-first and operates in a fast-growing market.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide leadership for development initiatives and lead the end to end delivery of the most complex initiatives across multiple teams, ensuring successful outcomes.
  2. Be a change advocate responsible for initiating and leading multiple organizations through pivots needed to address shifts in business trends and priorities.
  3. Drive Technical Program Management best practices and develop best of class software development processes.
  4. Use deep technical skills and domain knowledge to influence the strategic direction of teams and the department.
  5. Define and track improvement to metrics for quality and performance across complex projects involving many teams.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of leadership experience on software teams as a Technical Program Manager or Development Manager
  • Experience delivering complex projects or solutions that span different groups within an organization
  • Excellent verbal and written skills coupled with an ability to present to all levels in an organization, whether explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives or discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers
  • Skilled at influencing stakeholders and leadership to develop systems, solutions, and products
  • Adaptability and willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks
  • Experience with common software development tools (e.g. GitHub, bitbucket, Jenkins) and public cloud technology (e.g. AWS, Azure etc)
  • Working knowledge of AI (e.g., machine learning, model lifecycle, data pipelines)

Nice to have

  • customer focus
  • ability to get stuff done
  • occasional duties outside standard working hours

What the JD emphasized

  • deliver our most challenging product development programs
  • managing program schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to program stakeholders
  • lead the end to end delivery of the most complex initiatives across multiple teams, ensuring successful outcomes
  • Define and track improvement to metrics for quality and performance across complex projects involving many teams
  • Working knowledge of AI (e.g., machine learning, model lifecycle, data pipelines)