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Staff Technical Program Manager

Guild is hiring a Staff Technical Program Manager, a senior individual-contributor role focused on driving execution across Product and Engineering led programs and initiatives - owning complex, cross-functional work from planning through delivery. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role: you'll operate across teams and functions, cut through ambiguity, and ensure the most critical initiatives land on time and with quality.

Responsibilities

- Assess the current state of Product across business objectives, stakeholder needs, and delivery inhibitors, and translate findings into a long-term, multi-team execution roadmap in close partnership with Product and Engineering.
- Translate product strategy into concrete execution plans by working closely with engineering leaders to clarify dependencies, sequencing, and technical trade-offs.
- Own execution of the articulated roadmap by aligning teams, proactively managing dependencies, and ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery.
- Own launch and release readiness across all stakeholders, ensuring teams are informed, equipped, and ready before anything ships.
- Operate with full ownership across products and programs. Proactively identify risks, blockers, decision gaps, and opportunities, resolving them directly or ensuring clear ownership and accountability.
- Establish and evolve the operating cadences for Product and Engineering, including how teams plan, review, and align, with a bias toward reducing coordination overhead and protecting time for high-value work.
- Establish best practices, and scale program leadership capabilities across the Guild P&E organization.
- Champion AI adoption by identifying opportunities to embed AI into the Product Development Lifecycle and modeling effective, responsible use of AI tools.

What We’re Looking For

Cross-System Reasoning

Demonstrated systems thinking: ability to reason about how changes ripple across teams and systems, and to think in sequences (e.g., dependency readiness, integration timing, and rollout order), not just individual projects
Able to identify what needs to be measured and why, ensuring product data is trusted and actionable, and using data to surface risks and drive decisions
Knows when to go deep and when to go broad, able to dive into technical details when a program is at risk, and zoom out to cross-team sequencing when alignment is the bottleneck

Ownership mindset and trust-building

Proven track record of owning outcomes, not tasks.
Proactively steps into ambiguity and execution gaps rather than routing around them.
Builds credibility with Product and Engineering partners by understanding the “why,” anticipating issues, and acting as a true execution partner

Communication and Collaboration

Communicates with precision across audiences — translates technical complexity for executives without losing credibility with engineers and architects
Drives alignment in ambiguous, multi-stakeholder environments by creating clarity around decisions, owners, and sequencing
Establishes feedback loop infrastructure that ensures customer, partner, and operational insights are systematically captured and inform product and roadmap decisions
Establishes communication norms and shared artifacts that scale across teams and reduce coordination overhead

Qualifications

8+ years of experience on software teams as a Technical Program Manager, Program Manager, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, or similar role
Experience driving and delivering complex Product and Engineering programs from inception to delivery
Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams and functions, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership
Communication experience at executive level and experience influencing senior leadership and technical management teams
Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners
Experience working with product teams to build and deliver end-to-end customer focused products with an understanding of the underlying platforms and technologies

We are committed to equal pay for equal work and believe in compensation transparency. All salary ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region. This role offers a competitive total compensation package, including a base salary of $180,000 - $215,000 and stock options. Compensation offered will be based on a combination of factors such as experience, competencies, and internal equity.

Updated Posting Date: June 3, 2026

*This role will stay open for a minimum of 3 days.

Guild partners with the country’s most innovative employers, including Chipotle, Target, Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton, Spectrum, PepsiCo, Tyson, and more, to build the talent needed for today and a resilient workforce for tomorrow. Guild helps employers identify, develop, and mobilize internal talent, enabling workers to gain skills for in-demand roles and companies to stay agile.

By connecting employees to real-world learning, coaching, and career support, and providing companies with actionable talent insights, Guild transforms all talent into high-impact contributors and positions companies for long-term, sustainable growth. For more information, visit https://www.guild.com.

Guild is a female-founded, certified B Corp. The company has been recognized by Fortune’s Change the World list (2021, 2025), the Forbes Cloud 100 (2020–2025), Great Place to Work (2022–2025), CNBC’s Disruptor 50 (2021–2024), TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies (2022), Inc.’s Best-Led Companies (2021), Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas (2020), and B Lab’s Best for the World (2019), among many others.

Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:

Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
Access to a 401k to help save for the future
Vacation policy to rest and recharge
8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 2-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth

Our home and headquarters in Denver, but some of our roles allow for remote work, allowing us to reach the best talent across the US. Please refer to the job location referenced below the job posting title to determine location. Roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift.

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Staff Technical Program Manager

About the role

Cross-System Reasoning

Ownership mindset and trust-building

Qualifications

PRIVACY NOTICE

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