Technical Program Director

🕒 August 18

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $170k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📋 Program Manager

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Cast & Crew

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 Private equity on 2013-03

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Cast & Crew is a provider of cloud-based software and professional services that support the full lifecycle of film, television, streaming and live-event productions. They offer production accounting, payroll and HR, timekeeping, digital onboarding, content and asset collaboration, reporting/analytics, and industry-specific services such as tax incentives guidance, workers' compensation, residuals, and financing. Cast & Crew serves production companies and entertainment businesses with B2B SaaS solutions and managed services to streamline workflows and ensure compliance across global productions.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical implementation of complex strategic initiatives spanning product, engineering, and data teams • Establish and maintain scope, schedule, and budget baselines • Build integrated program plans and dependency maps across engineering, product, QA, data, and operations workstreams • Run program-management cadences including RAID logs, steering committees, change-control processes, and milestone gates • Track budget burn and forecast variance • Own status reports, steering committee updates, and working sessions for stakeholders and executives • Provide clear, actionable updates to the CTO and executive stakeholders • Connect teams and drive decisions across workstreams • Identify, escalate, and resolve risks, issues, blockers, and cross-team dependencies • Track program spend and resource allocation with engineering leadership and finance • Oversee third-party and vendor workstreams where applicable • Align business stakeholders on program changes and impacts • Run formal change management for scope, timeline, and sequencing changes • Potentially hire and lead a small team of Program or Project Managers as the portfolio grows

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of specific, relevant experience leading complex, technical, cross-functional programs • PMP certification (Project Management Professional), or equivalent demonstrated program management rigor • Track record managing programs with real budget, staffing, and executive accountability • Fluency with structured (waterfall/stage-gate) and Agile delivery models • Demonstrated proficiency using LLM tools, particularly Claude Cowork • Ability to set up and manage AI projects with scheduled, automated tasks • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Ability to operate in ambiguity across multiple concurrent, high-visibility initiatives • Experience standing up or maturing a PMO function or program-governance model inside an engineering organization • Hands-on proficiency with program/PPM tooling such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, or MS Project • Preferred: experience in payroll, HR technology, entertainment/media production finance, or another regulated, operationally complex domain • Preferred: experience managing vendor or systems-integrator relationships on technical delivery programs • Additional certifications such as PgMP, SAFe, or Lean Six Sigma are a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision • PTO • Health and wellness programs • Employee discounts