Technical Program Manager, Engineering

Who we are:

Hi, we’re SambaSafety and we offer the industry’s most comprehensive driver monitoring software. Our mission is promoting safer communities by reducing risk through data insights. Companies trust SambaSafety to keep their employees safe on the roads, price and reduce risk, help protect their brand, their bottom line, and our global community. 

We’ve built an inclusive, supportive, and exceptional culture where every employee is empowered in their role. Don’t take our word for it; we’ve been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Denver Post, Albuquerque Journal, Sacramento Bee, and Built In Colorado. And our employees rate SambaSafety as top-notch, with a rock solid Top Rating on Glassdoor.

What You’ll Do:

Job Summary:

The Technical Program Manager, Engineering owns how work moves through the SambaSafety engineering organization, from a commitment or an idea to something running in production. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, this role runs the cross-team programs that no single engineering pod owns: platform and data initiatives, infrastructure migrations, reliability and security remediation, and the engineering side of the company’s largest product commitments. The role keeps Jira honest, dependencies visible, risks surfaced early, and stakeholders informed, so engineering leaders decide on facts rather than status meetings.

This is a new role and the first of its kind in Engineering. It is the engineering counterpart to two neighboring functions: Product Management, which owns what gets built and why, and Global Information Systems, which delivers back-office business applications. This role owns how and when engineering work gets delivered. Where Product has a Product Manager on the work, including the data platform and entity resolution capabilities, the Technical Program Manager pairs with them: the Product Manager owns the customer and go-to-market side, and this role owns the cross-team and technical dependencies that those programs generate. Where no Product Manager is assigned, such as infrastructure migrations, security remediation, reliability, and AI tooling rollouts, the role leads the program outright, including stakeholder interviews, scoping, and story creation.

SambaSafety is adopting AI-assisted software delivery through its Concept-to-Cash framework and agentic engineering harness. The Technical Program Manager is a primary operator of that process, making sure stage gates are respected, verification is real, and tooling removes toil rather than adding process.

Role Scope:

• Track: Individual contributor on the Engineering career path, with room to grow in scope as the program management function matures.
• Reports to: Chief Technology Officer. No direct reports; success is measured by programs delivered and by the practices other teams adopt.
• Working partners: Engineering Managers and Directors, Staff Engineers, Product Management, the Senior Project Manager in Global Information Systems, and external engineering partners.
• Scope of programs: Multi-quarter initiatives touching two or more engineering teams, spanning platform and data work, engineering-only programs, and the engineering side of customer-facing product commitments.

Responsibilities:

• Program ownership: Run several concurrent cross-pod programs end to end: charter, plan, dependencies, risks, status, and delivery.
• Engineering-only programs: Lead outright the work no Product Manager is assigned to, such as cloud and infrastructure migrations, AI harness and tooling rollouts, security remediation, and reliability improvements.
• Pairing with Product: Partner with the assigned Product Manager on customer-facing big rocks and on platform capabilities such as the data platform and entity resolution. Product owns scope, priority, and the customer and go-to-market side; this role owns cross-team technical dependencies, sequencing, and the delivery plan, which is where these programs most often stall today.
• Discovery and scoping: Conduct stakeholder interviews, define scope and success measures, and record decisions so the reasoning outlives the meeting.
• Jira and Confluence: Own the epic and story structure for programs, cross-project linking, and the Concept ID conventions that tie Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket together. Write stories engineers can start without a second conversation, and keep program documentation in a form others can pick up and edit.
• Planning cadence: Run the engineering side of quarterly and annual planning, track big rocks against capacity and commitments, and produce status executives can read in two minutes.
• Risk and escalation: Surface risks early with options attached, and escalate to the right leader with a recommendation.
• Delivery measurement: Maintain the metrics that show whether delivery is getting more predictable, including cycle time, commitment accuracy, and adoption of AI-assisted delivery practices.
• Partner coordination: Coordinate across external engineering partners where programs depend on them, so handoffs are managed rather than discovered.
• Process improvement: Improve how engineering plans and delivers with the lightest process that works, always explaining the why, and retire process that no longer earns its keep.

What You’ll Need:

• 5+ years in program, project, or product management within SaaS software organizations, including 2+ years running cross-team technical programs.
• A clear track record of getting things shipped: able to point to programs delivered on commitment and the obstacles worked through to get there.
• Expert in Jira and Confluence, including building epic and story structures, boards, filters, and dashboards from scratch. Familiarity with Bitbucket and CI/CD pipeline concepts.
• Technical fluency: able to read an architecture diagram, understand an API contract or a data pipeline, and ask the right questions of engineers without needing to build it. AWS familiarity is a plus.
• Strong stakeholder interviewing and requirements-shaping skills, with the judgment to know when a request is a real need and when it is a symptom.
• Plain-spoken written and verbal communication that works for engineers and executives alike.
• Comfortable using AI-assisted tools as part of daily work, and curious about how they change program management itself.
• Experience with regulated data (FCRA, DPPA, or similar), data-heavy platforms, or a private-equity-backed environment is helpful but not required.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits and Perks:

• Flexible and generous Paid Time Off and Paid Volunteer Days
• 401k Employer Match 
• Generous Healthcare Benefits 
• Up to 12 weeks paid time off for maternity leave based on tenure
• Wellness &Tuition Reimbursement
• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Lots of SambaSafety swag & SambaSafety Events 

Our team of talented and committed safety professionals is exceptional. At SambaSafety we strive to foster an inclusive culture that supports, encourages and celebrates a wide array of diversity. We are committed to create a space where all employees can show up as their authentic selves every day, and we work to advance employee equality, diversity and inclusion.

SambaSafety provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, and expression or genetics.

Come join us to find out for yourself what all the excitement is about!