Staff Technical Program Manager

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Austin, TX, USA
Hybrid
Senior level
Big Data • Real Estate • Software
Realtor.com® is an open real estate marketplace built for everyone.
The Role
Partner with product, engineering, and leadership to drive portfolio health and predictable delivery across complex, cross-functional programs. Create visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, and decisions; establish operating rhythms, dashboards, and SDLC discipline; coordinate cross-functional work; translate technical complexity for executives; surface and resolve risks; and contribute to AI-enabled workflows and automation to improve execution without excess bureaucracy.
Summary Generated by Built In

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.

Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.

We are looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to partner with Product, Engineering, and senior leadership on complex, high-impact initiatives across our marketplace organization.

This role supports products and systems that power lead generation, partner experiences, and revenue operations. Depending on business need, the role may support one of two adjacent areas:

  • Lead Services: consumer marketplace and lead products that connect people searching for a home with real estate professionals.

  • Enterprise Systems: billing, sales tooling, and commercial systems that support our business and revenue operations.

This is a high-trust, high-ambiguity individual contributor role. You will create structure where it does not exist, improve how teams execute, and help leaders make informed decisions across multiple programs and workstreams.

What you’ll do
  • Drive portfolio health and predictable delivery across complex, cross-functional programs.

  • Create clear visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, tradeoffs, and required actions.

  • Establish operating rhythms, dashboards, review cadences, and other mechanisms that improve execution across teams.

  • Strengthen SDLC discipline, including intake, prioritization, sequencing, planning, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, release readiness, and operational handoffs.

  • Coordinate work across Engineering, Product, Design, Data, Operations, and business stakeholders.

  • Translate technical complexity into clear business context for directors, senior directors, executives, and cross-functional partners.

  • Engage engineering teams credibly on systems, architecture, integrations, dependencies, technical tradeoffs, and delivery risk.

  • Surface issues early, drive resolution, and create clear escalation paths when decisions or resources are needed.

  • Partner with product and engineering leaders to connect execution plans to customer, marketplace, and business outcomes.

  • Help teams improve planning, communication, accountability, and delivery predictability without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.

  • Contribute to AI-forward ways of working, including AI-enabled workflows, automation, and decision support where they create meaningful value.

What you’ll bring
  • 8+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering program management, delivery leadership, or a related field; 10+ years is preferred.

  • Demonstrated Staff-level impact across multiple teams, programs, or organizations.

  • Experience creating operating mechanisms, driving portfolio-level visibility, and influencing director- and vice president-level stakeholders.

  • Strong technical fluency across software development lifecycles, systems, services, APIs, data flows, integrations, dependencies, and technical tradeoffs.

  • Experience improving execution discipline across teams through better governance, intake, prioritization, planning, risk management, or release practices.

  • Experience working in product-focused software environments, customer-facing platforms, SaaS, consumer technology, marketplaces, or complex software organizations.

  • Strong executive communication and the ability to tailor messages for engineering, product, business, and leadership audiences.

  • Comfort operating with significant autonomy in ambiguous environments and bringing order to complex, shifting priorities.

  • A track record of influencing outcomes without direct authority.

  • Genuine interest in an individual contributor Staff TPM role. This is not a people-management position.

Preferred experience
  • Marketplace, ecommerce, consumer technology, or customer-platform experience.

  • Programs involving high-volume matching or routing, lead delivery, transaction or billing systems, partner integrations, or real-time data pipelines.

  • Experience with AI-enabled products, automation, machine learning workflows, or responsible AI adoption.

  • Experience establishing Definition of Ready/Done practices, release governance, operational readiness, or cross-team delivery standards.

  • Experience supporting cloud-native products and modern software engineering organizations.

What success looks like

In this role, you will help leadership understand what is on track, what is slipping, where risk is accumulating, and what decisions are needed. You will make complex programs easier to execute by creating shared context, clear ownership, strong operating rhythms, and reliable follow-through.

The strongest Staff TPMs in this role are technical enough to engage engineering deeply, business-aware enough to frame tradeoffs clearly, and influential enough to improve how multiple teams work together.

How We Reward You:

Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

  • Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
  • Family forming benefits
  • 13 Paid Holidays
  • Flexible Time Off
  • 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
  • Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
  • Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
  • 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
  • Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
  • Free snacks and refreshments in each office location

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®

Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.

Skills Required

  • 8+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering program management, delivery leadership, or related field
  • Demonstrated Staff-level impact across multiple teams, programs, or organizations
  • Experience creating operating mechanisms, driving portfolio-level visibility, and influencing director- and vice president-level stakeholders
  • Strong technical fluency across SDLC, systems, services, APIs, data flows, integrations, and technical tradeoffs
  • Experience improving execution discipline through governance, intake, prioritization, planning, risk management, or release practices
  • Experience working in product-focused software environments, customer-facing platforms, SaaS, consumer technology, marketplaces, or complex software organizations
  • Strong executive communication and ability to tailor messages for engineering, product, business, and leadership audiences
  • Comfort operating with significant autonomy in ambiguous environments and bringing order to complex, shifting priorities
  • Track record of influencing outcomes without direct authority
  • Genuine interest in an individual contributor Staff TPM role (not a people-management position)
  • Preferred: Marketplace, ecommerce, consumer technology, or customer-platform experience
  • Preferred: Programs involving high-volume matching/routing, lead delivery, billing systems, partner integrations, or real-time data pipelines
  • Preferred: Experience with AI-enabled products, automation, machine learning workflows, or responsible AI adoption
  • Preferred: Experience establishing Definition of Ready/Done practices, release governance, operational readiness, or cross-team delivery standards
  • Preferred: Experience supporting cloud-native products and modern software engineering organizations

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Realtor.com Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave up to 20 weeks for primary caregivers, plus adoption assistance, backup child/adult care, and lactation support, are prominently offered. Feedback suggests these resources feel comprehensive and family‑friendly.
  • Healthcare Strength Medical, dental, and vision plans include fertility and family‑building, reproductive care, gender‑affirming coverage, autism programs, telemedicine, and mental‑health resources. Feedback suggests the breadth and inclusivity of coverage stand out.
  • Retirement Support A 401(k) with an employer match (commonly detailed as up to 3.5% via the News Corp plan) and Traditional/Roth options is clearly outlined. Feedback suggests the match adds meaningful value to total rewards.

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The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
1,400 Employees
Year Founded: 1995

What We Do

For years, millions of home shoppers have turned to realtor.com® to find their dream home. Operated by Move, Inc., realtor.com® offers a comprehensive list of for-sale properties, as well as the information and tools to make informed real estate decisions. Today, more than ever, realtor.com® is The Home of Home Search℠. Realtor.com® also offers homeowners a bevy of useful tools and resources through the My Home℠ dashboard. My Home℠ dashboard allows property owners to manage their home like the important investment it is by tracking their home’s value over time, researching and managing home improvements, and scouting other similar properties in the neighborhood.

Why Work With Us

The way home begins with you. With a diverse team of experts alongside you, you’ll help us reach new heights at the forefront of the digital real estate space. Bring your extensive knowledge and deep expertise and collaborate with other passionate visionaries to lead our industry and revolutionize the way people find home, in every form.

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Realtor.com Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Enjoy the flexibility of our hybrid policy—simply choose whichever three days a week work best for you to come into any of our offices.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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