Senior Technical Program Manager, Platform

About the Role

Do you thrive at leading cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment? Have you mastered and been continuously improving leading Agile development teams to achieve the best business outcomes? Are you a go-getter who gets things done and delivers value to our customers? If so, Chime San Francisco has an opportunity for you!

We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to work with our Platform team. You will be working with engineering leaders, product management teams, and cross-functional teams to plan and deliver our ambitious roadmaps.

For Colorado based roles: In accordance with applicable law, this role has an annual starting salary of $153,000 plus bonus, a competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual pay may be higher depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.In this role, you can expect to

• Use your solid execution skills with a strategic approach to lead cross-functional teams through program and roadmap planning, execution, and release.
• Anticipate and handle risks and issues, both at the technical and business level, within your programs and across the portfolio.
• Understand and handle dependencies, and ensure transparency of priorities across programs and teams.
• Balance priorities across long-term mission and short-term execution.
• Create and enforce cross-functional alignment and accountability across all business and technical groups and levels.
• Lead and encourage your team. Remove impediments and build a culture for teams to deliver at their best.
• Collaborate with colleagues to improve our processes and help us work better and more thoughtful as we scale.
• Create clarity for teams in situations of ambiguity.

To thrive in this role, you have

• 7+ years of professional experience with 5+ years of hands-on experience in a Senior Technical Program Manager role leading complex software development programs with multiple scrum teams.
• Proficiency with Agile software development, and familiarity with traditional / Waterfall project management methods. Understand the awesomeness and downfalls of Agile, Waterfall, and other philosophies/methodologies - and know what to apply for each situation.
• Superior organizational skills, integrity and great follow-through on tasks with high autonomy of delivery.
• Stellar communication skills, with an ability to cater communication to varied audiences, including executives.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills in driving alignment and visibility, always keeping teams mission-oriented.
• Expertise in portfolio management, roadmap planning, trade-off and alignment for multiple teams.

A little about us

We created Chime because we believe everyone deserves financial peace of mind. By eliminating unnecessary fees and helping people grow their savings automatically, we’ve empowered millions of Americans to take control of their finances.

Chime is the largest and fastest-growing U.S. player in the challenger-banking space. Through our banking partners, we offer access to bank accounts with fee-free overdraft, provide members the chance to receive early access to their paychecks, help them improve their credit, and more!

We’ve built one of the most experienced leadership teams in Fintech and were recently valued at over $25.5B. We’ve raised over $1.7B in funding from leading investors including Sequoia Capital Global Equities, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Dragoneer, DST, Coatue, Iconiq, Menlo Ventures and others.

What we offer

• 💰 Competitive salary based on experience
• ✨ 401k match plus the usual medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
• 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide Take Care of Yourself Days
• 🖥 Virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers- think cooking classes, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights, etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!
• 💚 A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help create a completely new kind of banking service

We know that great work comes from great, and inclusive teams. At Chime, we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.

We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. To learn more about how Chime collects and uses your personal information during the application process, please see the Chime Applicant Privacy Notice.

Chime requires employees to be fully vaccinated (and boosted if eligible) against COVID-19 in order to work in one of its offices, join Company-sponsored activities, or travel for business purposes. This job may require periodic office attendance and/or business travel and therefore candidates will need to be eligible for these activities by their start date.

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