Senior Technical Program Manager, Gaming

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Technical Program Manager to help us create the next generation of gamified fitness experiences.

We recently launched our first gaming-inspired cycling experience, Peloton Lanebreak, to the delight of our members and critics alike. With the experience and insights we’ve gained, we’re looking to level-up our team as we continuously improve Lanebreak and develop innovative new ways to help members achieve their fitness goals.

As the Senior Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for program delivery and team health for our Gaming teams. You will support our cross-functional teams by defining program plans, high-level goals and roadmaps, monitoring and communicating progress.

You will also act as the team’s guardian to continue creating a culture of reflection and improvement. This is at the heart of your agile program management style and understand its importance in building an effective, close knit and purposeful team culture.

YOUR DAILY IMPACT AT PELOTON

• Be the glue that helps the team get things done including applying agile best practices, develop and manage end-to-end program plans, provide day-to-day coordination, and stakeholder management
• Interface with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, and work with development teams to define, evaluate, and prioritize program scope and implementation plans
• Facilitate activities across day to day activities for the team - this includes activities like stand-ups, backlog refinement, sizing and retrospectives
• Facilitate definition of product roadmaps with the teams that you are working with
• Regular reporting on program status, identifying dependencies and developing risk mitigation strategies
• Drive internal improvements and define delivery metrics to track team health
• Manage vendor augmentation contractors that support our team’s goals

YOU BRING TO PELOTON

• 5+ years technical program management in the product space (bonus if in gaming)
• Experience in Agile frameworks, including managing execution, backlogs, facilitating meaningful retros 
• Ability to build out and manage end to end project plans including release planning across stakeholders
• Appreciation for building a warm and supportive team culture - understanding the emotional and business dynamics that impact the team health and how to handle them
• Understand how to best leverage tools that promote collaboration as part of software delivery including JIRA, Asana and whiteboard tools like Miro/Mural
• Knowing how to tailor your written and verbal communication based on audience 
• An experimental attitude - knowing how and when to encourage team to to take risks in how they work together to improve
• Ability to mediate between competing product and technical priorities; align priorities and goals through collaboration with Technical Leads and Product Managers.
• This job is based in our New York City office, our working style is a hybrid one with a mix of 2 days remote work and 3 days in office.
• Bonus: You are certified in agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, SaFE) but understand how to tailor approaches based on team maturity
• Bonus: You have experience in Gaming and understand nuances in ways of working for these teams

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