Senior Technical Program Manager

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🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔧 Technical Program Manager

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Pencil

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📣 Marketing

🤝 B2B

💰 $2.8M Seed Round - Pencil on 2020-04

Artificial Intelligence • Marketing • B2B

Pencil is an AI-driven creative platform for marketers and brands. It uses generative artificial intelligence to produce ad creative (images and video) and concept variations designed for performance marketing and e-commerce advertisers, helping teams scale creative production and test many ad variants quickly. Pencil is positioned as a B2B tool for marketing teams and agencies.

📋 Description

• Establish the operating cadence for the product and engineering area. • Apply minimum viable structure to keep teams aligned and ensure decisions are documented. • Support recurring sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and demos. • Own workback plans and dependency maps for releases, integrations, and cross-team engineering work. • Maintain project trackers and visibility surfaces, including trustworthy Linear views. • Own standing views for production bugs, in-flight work, and blocked items. • Surface technical and timeline risks, challenge optimistic plans, and enforce readiness gates. • Run end-to-end cross-team programs including feature launches, integrations, and technical migrations. • Scope, sequence, schedule, and communicate programs to stakeholders. • Manage handoffs and seams between product, engineering, and other workstreams. • Resolve cross-team blockers directly and clear dependencies. • Apply escalation frameworks and support leadership decision-making. • Own the first-responder rota for incidents and client interrupts. • Translate engineering realities for non-technical stakeholders. • Maintain portfolio views and produce weekly written status updates. • Support OKR reporting and tracking, surfacing progress and drift. • Report to the Principal Technical Program Manager and partner with engineering leads and product managers.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager, ideally in AI/ML, platform infrastructure, or developer tooling. • Track record running complex programs with multi-team dependencies and hard external deadlines. • Genuine technical fluency: comfortable reading a system architecture and understanding the implications; comfortable in conversations about APIs, integration design, and platform trade-offs without being the engineer in the room. • Engineering background a strong plus. • Structured thinker who writes clean documents and can produce clear framing with a recommended path from ambiguity, incomplete specs, and competing stakeholder views. • Communication at every altitude: leadership updates, detailed dependency maps for technical leads, and sound judgement about the appropriate level of detail. • Comfortable contributing to a young TPM discipline by helping shape templates, cadences, and norms. • Bonus: experience in a high-growth scale-up and/or a company building infrastructure while using it on real customer workloads. • Must have legal right to work and remain in the country in which you intend to work from. • Required to submit a resume and answer application questions about program delivery, architecture risk, and building TPM processes.

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days PTO plus public holidays, although we operate a Flexible Time Off scheme. • Health insurance / private medical cover. • Monthly stipend towards wellness, fitness, and learning and development. • Remote — work from anywhere in your home country within EMEA. • Enhanced parental leave policies, whether you become a parent through birth, adoption or surrogacy. • Access to our Pencil office in The Shard, London. • Flexible working hours.