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

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

👥 HR Tech

💰 Private equity on 2013-03

SaaS • Media • HR Tech

Cast & Crew is a provider of cloud-based software and services that support the full production lifecycle for the entertainment industry. The company offers production accounting and AP software (PSL+), digital onboarding and timekeeping tools (Start+, Hours+), collaboration and content tools (Studio+), reporting/data integrations, and a full-service payroll and financial services suite including residuals, workers' compensation, tax-incentive guidance, and related production HR resources. Cast & Crew serves film, television, streaming and live entertainment productions, delivering B2B SaaS products plus specialized payroll and workforce support for production employers and crews.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical implementation of complex strategic initiatives spanning product, engineering, and data teams • Establish and maintain scope, schedule, and budget baselines • Maintain a single source of truth for program status • Build integrated program plans and dependency maps across engineering, product, QA, data, and operations • Run program-management cadences including RAID logs, steering committees, change control, and milestone gates • Track budget burn and forecast variance • Own status reports, steering committee updates, and stakeholder working sessions • Provide clear, actionable updates to the CTO and executive stakeholders • Connect teams and facilitate decisions • Identify risks and blockers proactively and drive resolution or mitigation plans • Escalate blockers appropriately • Manage cross-team engineering, infrastructure, vendor, and third-party dependencies • Track program spend and resource allocation with engineering leadership and finance • Oversee third-party or vendor workstreams where applicable • Ensure business stakeholders understand changes, timing, and operational impact • Run formal change management for scope, timeline, and sequencing changes • Report directly to the CTO • 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 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 • Comfort operating 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 • Ability to work in California-Remote

🏖️ Benefits

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