Sr. Technical Product & Program Manager, Platform Engineering
Betterment · Betterment HQ - New York City
Posted 28 days ago · $125,000-$145,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 28 days Betterment's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 100% of Betterment's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Betterment
- high 21 stale, 0 reposted of 28 open
- Hiring momentum
- 44 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Betterment's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Betterment.
About this role
As a Senior Technical Product & Program Manager in the Platform Engineering organization, you will partner with various teams to align on priorities and manage roadmaps that support Betterment’s engineering capabilities. Your role involves defining initiatives for product innovation, standardization, efficiency, and risk minimization, while leading cross-team initiatives and ensuring clear communication of technical tradeoffs and outcomes.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Betterment as an employer.
What you need
- Strong experience shaping and executing roadmaps for backend platforms, infrastructure, developer tooling, SRE, security, APIs, authentication, or related technical domains
- Experience leading complex, cross-team programs where success depended on influence, adoption, and sustained partnership rather than direct authority
- Technical depth sufficient to work effectively with senior engineers on backend architecture, operational tradeoffs, reliability, security, developer workflows, or platform APIs
- A demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous technical problems into clear decisions, priorities, milestones, and measurable outcomes
- Experience balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health, including standards, migrations, deprecations, reliability improvements, and operational readiness
- Strong judgment about how to prioritize shared platform investments when different teams have legitimate but competing needs
What you get
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- Infertility support and WPATH-aligned transgender health benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Transit benefits and FSA and HSA options
Worth weighing
- No specific technologies or tools mentioned, which may affect clarity on the tech stack
- Salary range provided, but actual salaries may vary based on multiple factors
- Vague mention of 'variable compensation' without specifics on the incentive bonus structure.
Summarised from Betterment's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Betterment on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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