Senior Staff Technical Program Manager

GEICO
Palo Alto, CA, United States
3 months ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Compensation
$120,000.0 - $260,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Cyber Security Information Systems Information Engineering Power BI Tableau (Software) Information Technology

Job description

In this role, you’ll get to act as a trusted advisor to executive and senior leaders, helping translate strategy and technical concepts into clear business outcomes and confident decisions. You’ll get to lead cross functional planning, intake, prioritization, and sequencing, making sure teams stay aligned, and dependencies are thoughtfully managed. You’ll help guide the foundation strategy and roadmap, balancing investment, scalability, cost efficiency, and long-term business value. You’ll get to define and evolve platform KPIs and success metrics, like adoption, resiliency, developer experience, time-to-market, and operational health. You’ll then bring those metrics to life through monitoring and reporting frameworks that show real impact. You’ll drive execution of complex, multiteam enterprise platform programs, managing risks, milestones, and change across engineering, product, and operations. Along the way, you’ll help ensure scalability and repeatability through strong documentation and operational practices.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Tooling?, * Enterprise platform experience: 10+ years in program/portfolio management working across large scale enterprise platforms in data engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and developer engineering and/or financial tech.

  • Change agent mindset: Passion for improving how teams build, operate, and scale technology, with a focus on driving meaningful organizational transformation.

  • Technical depth with business focus: Able to engage deeply with engineering leaders while staying grounded in business outcomes and value.

  • Data driven storytelling: Experienced in building and presenting dashboards, roadmaps, and impact stories using tools like PowerBI, Tableau, or internal visualization platforms.

  • Proven delivery impact: A strong track record of driving complex, high-impact initiatives, navigating ambiguity, managing risk and dependencies, and influencing measurable outcomes across technology, business, and product.

  • Thrives in ambiguity: Comfortable operating in highly ambiguous, rapidly changing environments, with intention and focus in bringing clarity, structure, and momentum as priorities and conditions evolve.

  • Empathetic guide and collaborator: Known for building trust, supporting inclusion, and creating environments where all teammates feel supported and able to do their best work.

  • Exceptional communicator: Articulates complex technical topics to nontechnical and executive audiences through clear narratives and storytelling.

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field required.

Benefits & conditions

$120,000.00 - $260,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.

Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.

Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.

Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

About the company

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive on relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.

Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported, and proud to work here. That’s why we offer the GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, and Great Careers.

The Team

We are seeking a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager to join the Strategy, Analytics, and Operations team that supports GEICO’s foundational platforms. In this role, you will manage, orchestrate, and drive execution of the foundational platform roadmap. Ensuring work stays aligned with business goals, architectural standards, risk and compliance requirements, emerging technology adoption, and long-term scalability.

You’ll support the coordinated delivery of foundational capabilities that power how GEICO builds, secures, operates, and scales technology, including PaaS platforms, infrastructure services, cybersecurity platforms, enterprise IT, data platforms, SRE capabilities, developer experience tooling, and workforce productivity solutions. Working across engineering teams and leaders, you’ll manage dependencies, sequencing, and delivery across domains, enabling teams across the enterprise to deliver faster, operate reliably, and innovate with confidence.

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