Senior Technical Program Manager

Who We Are:

SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, SiriusXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connect) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners -- in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.

This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically-acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital role in bringing SiriusXM's vision to life everyday.

SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. SiriusXM's platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment and podcasts. Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. SiriusXM's subsidiaries Stitcher, Simplecast and AdsWizz make it a leader in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics and monetization. The Company's advertising sales organization, which operates as SXM Media, leverages its scale, cross-platform sales organization and ad tech capabilities to deliver results for audio creators and advertisers. SiriusXM, through Sirius XM Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, SiriusXM offers connected vehicle services to automakers.

How you'll make an impact:

The Senior Technical Program Manager will be responsible for the planning, delivery, and execution of large, complex initiatives spanning multiple domain areas including Marketing, Martech, Data, and Data Products & Services. You must have a proven track record of program management of enterprise-wide consumer-facing projects, including command of roadmap planning, discovery, product & business alignment, cross-functional interdependencies & implementation. This role will integrate program management best practices with your proven ability to impact decision making processes between product and engineering stakeholders, and ultimately drive the execution and delivery of revenue impacting/cost saving initiatives for our products that service our diverse marketing and personalization experiences for all SXM consumers. In addition, this represents an exciting opportunity to be a member of a large, experienced, high performing team of technically-focused, enterprise-level program managers, with a focus on enablement and execution. We drive, execute, and own those "big boulder" initiatives that are transforming and modernizing our platform, products, and business, and are thus met with much visibility across the organization.

What you'll do

• Manage the delivery of large, org-wide initiatives that involve significant technical implementations, span across multiple engineering and product domain areas, and provide commercial value that requires orchestration across several dependent components of our business, product, and technical platforms.

• Build program structures across specific domain areas by initializing and leading discussions with engineering and product to ensure the appropriate kickoff of business and technical directions, and clear ownership within our processes & ways of working.

• Build and influence collaborative partnerships with other technical program leads, product operations leads, engineering leads, and product and business owners.

• Build and manage comprehensive technical timelines & milestones that include deliverables across various engineering and business areas, and ultimately map into revenue impacting objects and workstreams. This includes the ability to drive discussions that confirm and refine these timelines as the road to delivery progresses.

• Focus on risk management by leading both tactical, cross-functional discussions that lead to mitigations, as well as up leveled leadership discussions to enable appropriate decision making in order to activate mitigation plans.

• Present program health to GVP+ levels, demonstrating ownership and accountability across various cross-org functions, including Product, Engineering, Marketing, Martech and Data teams.

• Lead large forums of cross-functional technical team leads to continuously provide clarity and communications of strategic, tactical, and process changes, and generally facilitate continuous alignment in a fast paced environment. Be a thought leader in how to execute with efficiency in a changing, innovative environment, participating in process improvement working groups and ultimately acting as an agent of change.

• Demonstrate strong architecture literacy and understanding of system dependencies across platforms while cultivating a culture that rewards the aggressive pursuit of innovative solutions to problems.

• Apply technical understanding to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, anticipate pitfalls, and identify when solutions may impact downstream systems.

What you'll need:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering is preferred, but equivalent work experience is accepted.

• Minimum 5 years of deep experience in leading large scale, engineering focused programs across multiple cross-functional teams, with complex interdependencies, providing product and business deliverables with high visibility and orchestration.

• Minimum 5 years of managing large scale programs across distributed systems involving broadcast and media teams, cloud and on-premise services, and/or consumer-facing apps.

• Minimum 5 years of senior program management experience, with experience in executive leadership alignment and communication. Comfortable presenting to GVP and above levels.

• Strong propensity towards relationship building, empathetic listening, and understanding the balance of teamwork and individual accountability.

• Desire to work with fast paced teams, managing competing priorities, and delivering through change and ambiguity.

• Experience working with multiple Agile methodologies.

• Architectural or systems design experience.

• Experience in Salesforce cloud environments a plus.

• Experience with automation and/or AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.

• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

At SiriusXM, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your background and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We expect the base salary for this position to be in the range of $137,800 to $170,000 and will depend on your skills, qualifications, and experience. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives. We encourage all interested candidates to apply.

Our goal at SiriusXM is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism and cooperation. SiriusXM is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the Company in its sole discretion without notice.

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