Director, Technical Program Management

BitGo
Palo Alto, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 260,000 - 280,000 annuallyFunction: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Influence","Execution","Writing-first","Collaboration","Delivery leadership"]

Build and scale the Technical Program Management function for R&D as the first program manager. Own predictable delivery across the product portfolio, including regulated commitments, cross-team dependencies, and end-to-end integrations and restructuring programs. Establish the product operating rhythm with honest status, blocker escalation, and SLAs, while building trust across product, engineering, compliance, legal, finance, and audit. Hire and grow 1–2 TPMs within your first year.

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Director, Technical Program Management

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Job Summary

Build and scale the Technical Program Management function for R&D as the first program manager. Own predictable delivery across the product portfolio, including regulated commitments, cross-team dependencies, and end-to-end integrations and restructuring programs. Establish the product operating rhythm with honest status, blocker escalation, and SLAs, while building trust across product, engineering, compliance, legal, finance, and audit. Hire and grow 1–2 TPMs within your first year.
Location: Palo Alto, New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build the Technical Program Management function for R&D within the first year, hiring 1–2 TPMs as needed.
  • •Ensure timely and predictable delivery across product portfolio commitments, including early escalation when plans diverge.
  • •Run regulatory submission and review pipelines with fixed examiner deadlines and map remediation plans to the audit calendar.
  • •Maintain a single source of truth for portfolio dependency and capacity integrity, surfacing contradictions before quarter-end misses.
  • •Lead the product operating rhythm: honest initiative status, launch readiness for commercial, and a blocker-escalation path with SLAs.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 260,000 - 280,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kPaid ParentalPaid LeaveEquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years in technical program management, with 3+ leading TPM teams or functions, ideally including founding one.
  • •Delivery leadership in a regulated financial environment with examiner deadlines, audit findings, and SOX-adjacent remediation experience.
  • •Technically credible with platform engineering to sequence work, pressure-test estimates, and partner with senior engineers.
  • •Experience running at least one of: M&A integration, legal-entity restructuring, or large multi-party partner migrations.
  • •Operate through influence across split reporting lines with writing-first artifacts like documents and dependency maps.
Experience:8+ yearsRegulated financePublic companyCrypto/digital assetsSOX-adjacentM&ACompliance & audit
Skills:InfluenceExecutionWriting-firstCollaborationDelivery leadership
Languages:English

Company Brief

BitGo
Provides institutional-grade cryptocurrency custody, wallet, and security solutions including custody services, hot and cold wallet infrastructure, and compliance tools for exchanges, asset managers, and crypto-native businesses.
Industry: Blockchain & Web3
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Headquarters: Palo Alto, United States
Founded: 2013
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