The Core Platforms team is a diverse group of individuals across Europe and India, responsible for building MongoDB’s Enterprise Advanced product, helping our customers to run MongoDB on any type of infrastructure at global scale. Our software and services allow users to deploy fault-tolerant, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in minutes. The main focus of this department is to adapt our software to manage MongoDB clusters which are deployed in data centres or private and hybrid cloud platforms.

As a Staff Technical Program Manager, you will own the successful delivery of complex, cross-functional efforts. You will partner closely with stakeholders across the organization from Engineering, Product, Product Design, and Field-facing teams to develop and execute against our overall product vision and business objectives, uncover solutions to technical challenges, and provide data-driven insights that power strategic decision-making.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.

Position Expectations

Leverage technical acumen and analytical skills to drive engineering programs forward and maximize business value delivery
Recognise patterns in a sea of information and take action accordingly
Develop a strategic approach to program management that balances agility and process. This involves discerning when to provide direct guidance and when to empower teams by establishing clear frameworks and guidelines for ongoing initiatives
Build strategic partnerships with Product, Design, and Engineering stakeholders
Expand knowledge into new domains as called upon
Act as a mentor to junior TPMs and lead by example
Embody MongoDB's core values and leadership principles

The right candidate for this role will be

Experienced with 10+ years of working in an engineering organization leading complex cross-functional technical programs
Experienced with 5+ years of Software development background
Able to partner with technical stakeholders in methodically breaking down engineering challenges to deliver against abstract goals
Able to participate in technical design discussions and summarize trade-offs, outcomes, and next steps
Skilled at communicating across a diverse set of engineers and stakeholders
Capable of deep user empathy and adept at balancing product goals and engineering constraints to deliver impactful experiences
Hyper-organized and capable of coordinating across multiple independent work streams and organizations
A role model for effective execution practices, driven by an attuned sense of priority and urgency
Able to leverage their experience in program delivery to influence improvements to our tools, operations, architecture
Trained in working with project tracking software (e.g. Jira, Rally, MS Project)
Familiar with MongoDB or a comparable technology

Nice to have

Exposed to generative AI and Machine Learning
Interested in business automation work such as scripting in Python, Google Apps Script and Slack
Familiar with tools and methodologies for code analysis, refactoring, and automated testing

Success Measures

Delivery against program goals
Improvements and automations in team operations, including leveraging best practices from the TPM community
Drive department-wide change and continuous improvement

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

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MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID: 1273394181

Staff Technical Program Manager

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