Senior Technical Program Manager

United States

About the role

Partner across engineering, product, infrastructure, Azure, operations, finance, and business teams to define, scope, and deliver complex technical programs. Contribute to technical design and architecture discussions, ensuring program decisions support long-term scalability, security, reliability, and operational readiness. Establish clear program charters, goals, success criteria, and priorities for strategic platform initiatives, including AAD Graph Migration and Kubernetes migration. Translate organizational objectives, customer

requirements, and technical constraints into structured, executable program plans. Drive proactive, data-informed risk and dependency management. Identify technical and organizational risks early, clarify cross-team ownership, develop mitigation and contingency plans, and escalate decisions when necessary to maintain momentum and predictable delivery. Define and track measurable outcomes through OKRs, KPIs, migration metrics, and operational health indicators. Use data to evaluate progress, identify gaps, guide prioritization, and provide leadership with a clear view of program health and business impact. Lead end-to-end execution across complex, multi-team programs. Manage integrated schedules, critical paths, dependencies, milestones, and readiness criteria while holding stakeholders accountable for commitments. Drive course correction when needed and ensure changes are communicated consistently. Ensure comprehensive launch and operational readiness. Coordinate engineering validation, security and compliance

requirements, infrastructure readiness, deployment planning, service operations, customer-impact assessment, and post-launch measurement. Create scalable program structures and operating mechanisms that improve execution across the Directory and Compute platforms. Establish effective governance, decision-making forums, escalation paths, and reporting mechanisms without introducing unnecessary process. Communicate clearly across all levels of the organization. Develop concise, executive-ready updates that communicate outcomes, progress, risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and decisions required. Present program strategy and status confidently to large cross-functional and leadership audiences. Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience. 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos). 2+ years of experience with software development lifecycles from conception to delivery 2+ years of experience with data analysis, data presentation using Power BI or similar.

About Swiftkey

SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people. It upgrades smartphone keyboards to make typing faster, by utilizing artificial intelligence to learn from each user in order to autocorrect and predict their next word. The SwiftKey Keyboard for Android supports more than 80 languages. SwiftKey was founded by Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Job details

Location

United States

Company

NameSwiftkey
IndustryAndroid
Team Size2

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