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Staff Technical Program Manager (Remote)

The Athletic

Staff Technical Program Manager (Remote)

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Hiring Remotely in United States

Remote

Digital Media • Sports

The Role

About Us

Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.

About The Role

This role will play a pivotal function within the technology organization at The Athletic, orchestrating critical, highly complex initiatives and aligning teams of engineers, data scientists, and cross-functional partners to execute seamlessly. As a Staff Technical Program Manager, you will apply deep technical fluency and program leadership to orchestrate complex, cross-platform initiatives shaped by architectural strategy. You will drive execution alignment for initiatives shaped by strategic, architectural, and operational alignment. This is an advanced individual contributor role, and you will be critical to the success and scalability of our technology stack.

Responsibilities

Look 12–36 months ahead; Be able to plan complex migrations, infrastructure overhauls, and multi-year technical initiatives.
Be accountable for the above, while keeping in mind scalability and maintainability.
Enable engineering to ship with quality, security, and speed.
Proactively identify bottlenecks and mitigate technical risks.
Operate with minimal oversight and transparent communication.
Align engineering teams around shared technical goals and release schedules.
Foster a highly collaborative environment within the Technology Organization.

Requirements

8+ years of relevant experience in Technical Program Management, Engineering Management, or as a Software/Systems Engineer leading cross-functional projects.
Technical domain expertise — you are expected to hit the ground running, actively read technical design documents, and create immediate impact.
Exceptional systems-level thinking with the ability to partner effectively with Architecture and Engineering leadership to translate strategic direction into executable roadmaps.
A bias to action, rallying disparate technical teams to deliver results on time.
Excellence with data - analyzing data, deriving insights, and making data-driven decisions.
Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to influence technical architects and drive alignment with non-technical stakeholders.

The annual base salary range for this role is $165,000.00 - $180,000.00 USD. The total compensation offered for this position may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, and location.

For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.

For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.

We are excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process. If you are a candidate for a technical role, we will let you know what specific tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.

The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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New York, NY

603 Employees

Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Here for every sports story that matters. -- The Athletic (http://theathletic.com) is a subscription-based media publisher of smarter sports coverage for die-hard fans. Founded in 2016, The Athletic’s all-star team of writers have produced thousands of quality stories for subscribers free of ads, pop-ups and auto-play videos. The Athletic now offers in-depth local coverage in 47 North American pro sports markets along with premium national coverage across MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA & more. Readers can count on original, authentic storytelling written by talented local and national sports journalists like Ken Rosenthal, Pierre LeBrun, Seth Davis, Stewart Mandel, Shams Charania and many more. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.