Senior Technical Program Manager
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AI Summary
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.
Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.
Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
The role, in a nutshell:
Chainguard's Developer Platform team keeps Platform, Platform Developers, and Integrations moving — three teams with big roadmaps and, right now, no product manager on the ground translating strategy into logistics. That gap is where this role lives. You'll partner with engineering managers and product to help shape and validate what each team is building, then own the harder problem: turning that plan into something that actually ships, with clear sequencing, visible risk, and fast adjustments when reality doesn't match the plan. This is an individual contributor role with real scope — you're not managing people, but you're the reason three teams stay coordinated instead of colliding.
What you'll do:
- Partner with EMs and product across Platform, Platform Developers, and Integrations to help shape and validate roadmaps
- Translate roadmap decisions into concrete delivery plans — sequencing, dependencies, ownership
- Own execution day-to-day: track progress, surface risk early, and drive plan adjustments as priorities shift
- Run weekly metric reporting and support quarterly planning in Linear
- Communicate progress and changes clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional partners
- Help onboard new teammates into existing processes and systems of work
- Use AI tools to move faster in your own workflow — this is expected of everyone on the team, TPMs included
What we're looking for:
- 5+ years of experience as a technical program manager or program/project manager in a software development environment — security experience is not required
- A track record of building and executing delivery plans across multiple engineering teams, adjusting as priorities change
- Strong stakeholder management across EMs, product managers, and engineers — no translation layer needed
- Technical fluency: you understand how software gets built, even if you're not writing code day-to-day
- Strong written communication skills to a variety of audiences.
- Comfort using AI tools (e.g., Claude) to get more done in your own role
Additionally, we'd love it if you have:
- Familiarity with container or software supply chain security concepts
- Experience building lightweight automations or tools (AI-assisted or otherwise) to cut toil from your own TPM workflow
About Us
We live and breathe our company values:
- We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
- We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
- We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
- We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
A few of the benefits we offer:
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with Chainguard's Global Candidate Privacy Notice.
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