Senior Technical Program Manager

Description

OpenSearch is growing fast, and we need a Technical Program Manager who can keep pace. In this role, you will drive feature releases, coordinate security and compliance campaigns, and remove cross-team blockers so engineers can focus on building great products.

You will own program strategy end-to-end — planning roadmaps, aligning engineering and business stakeholders, and making informed trade-offs that keep delivery on track. Your ability to bring structure to ambiguity and connect the work of multiple teams will directly accelerate what OpenSearch delivers to its customers.

Key job responsibilities
- Plan, execute, and deliver complex cross-functional feature releases for OpenSearch, setting clear objectives and measurable success criteria while coordinating teams inside and outside your organization.
- Drive security and compliance campaigns across the program, ensuring teams meet requirements on schedule and reducing risk exposure.
- Partner with engineering leads and product stakeholders to prioritize initiatives, align on requirements, and make smart trade-offs between time, effort, and feature scope — using your technical judgment to question proposals and test assumptions.
- Identify and resolve cross-team blockers and dependencies proactively, overseeing gaps between teams, processes, and system architectures to prevent common failure modes such as unclear requirements or insufficient testing.
- Track program health through data and metrics, communicate progress and outcomes to senior leadership, and continuously refine processes to improve delivery efficiency.

A day in the life
You might start your morning reviewing delivery metrics in Asana and flagging items that need attention. From there, you could facilitate a planning session with engineers on an upcoming feature release, then pivot to preparing a status update for senior leadership. In the afternoon, you may work through a cross-team dependency with partner teams or assess progress on an active security compliance campaign. You will also build hands-on experience with agentic AI tools, learning to interpret and validate the data and analysis they produce to sharpen your decision-making.

About the team
The OpenSearch team builds and maintains open-source search and analytics technology used by customers worldwide. We are in a period of rapid growth, expanding our feature set and customer base, and we need strong program management to help the team deliver at this pace. You will work alongside engineers, product managers, and senior leaders who are committed to building reliable, customer-focused products. The team is actively adopting agentic AI tools, so you will gain practical expertise in an area that is reshaping how programs are managed. If you want to join a team where your work directly enables engineers to create great products, this is the role for you.

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Preferred Qualifications

- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

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