Attentive® is the AI-powered mobile marketing platform transforming the way brands personalize consumer engagement. Attentive enables marketers to craft tailored journeys for every subscriber, driving higher recurring revenue and maximizing campaign performance. Activating real-time data from multiple channels and advanced AI, the platform personalizes content, tone, and timing to deliver 1:1 messages that truly resonate.
With a top-rated customer success team recognized on G2, Attentive partners with marketers to provide strategic guidance and optimize SMS and email campaigns. Trusted by leading global brands like Neiman Marcus, Samsung, Wayfair, and Dyson, Attentive ensures enterprise-grade compliance and deliverability, supporting trillions of interactions across more than 70 industries. To learn more or request a demo, visit www.attentive.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), or Instagram.
About the Attentive Team
Have you ever received a text message from your favorite brand with an incredible offer? Did you know that text message marketing delivers the highest ROI of any marketing channel? And that more customers than ever prefer to connect with brands via text? That is what we do at Attentive. We empower the world’s leading brands to engage with their customers at the right moment, with the right message. Our platform powers more than 400 million messages every day, approaching 100 billion annually.
About the Role
The PMO at Attentive is responsible for managing the delivery of top company initiatives and helping guide them from planning all the way through execution and ultimately tracking the results / KPIs and reporting them. We drive delivery excellence across the enterprise to ensure business outcomes are achieved.
About the Program You Will Own
In this role the Program manager will manage a portfolio of projects and drive delivery excellence across two of Attentive’s key company initiatives:
Platform Reliability: Projects within this initiative focus on developing an efficient and dependable platform to support product growth and reduce revenue costs. The primary business goal is to ensure a successful Black Friday and Cyber Monday for customers. This involves setting clear reliability expectations, equipping teams with necessary tools, and holding them accountable for meeting reliability targets.
Developer Experience: Projects within this initiative focus on streamlining the development process so that engineers and teams can deliver code 25% more quickly. This involves improving deployment frequency, boosting confidence in releases, and cutting down cycle times, while maintaining a focus on efficient and high-quality development practices.
What You’ll AccomplishAs a Technical Program Manager, you will:
Drive Delivery of Complex Programs: Ensure successful planning, execution, and delivery of programs that require alignment across Engineering, Product, Design (EPD), and Go-To-Market (GTM) teams. Develop and publish release plans based on product requirements, technical challenges, operational needs, and GTM constraintsEnsure Accountability Across Teams: Ensure all parties are aware of the work for which they are responsible, and partner with leads to map dependencies and sequence work effectivelyIdentify & Mitigate Risks: Work with your EPD & GTM initiative leads to proactively surface and resolve risks and issues within teams before escalating to leadership when necessaryMaintain Stakeholder Visibility: Maintain full visibility with leadership and other critical stakeholders throughout the planning, execution, and launch of new products and features, including raising escalations when neededTrack Results & KPIs: Ensure results and KPIs are defined, tracked, and consistently reported to measure program successConduct Post-Mortems: Lead post-mortems to assess lessons learned and implement improvements for future initiatives
As a TPM embedded in 2-3 engineering teams, you will:
Support Team-Level Objectives: Collaborate closely with engineering managers and teams to ensure alignment with team goals, milestones, and deliverables. Partner with Product and Design to ensure requirements are clear, prioritized, and achievableEnable Technical Decision-Making: Partner with engineers to understand technical challenges, facilitate discussions, and help balance trade-offs between scope, quality, and speedCoordinate Cross-Team Dependencies: Act as a bridge between engineering teams and other stakeholders, ensuring dependencies are well-documented and timelines are metOptimize Agile Practices: Facilitate sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies, ensuring the teams operate effectively and efficiently to plan and executeDrive Process Improvements: Identify and address bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or gaps in engineering workflows. Implement solutions that enhance team productivityEnsure Delivery Transparency: Maintain clear documentation and reporting for team progress, risks, and decisions, ensuring alignment across all stakeholdersYour ExpertiseExperience: 8+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager, with a proven track record of delivering complex technical programs/products from inception to launchTechnical Expertise: Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and engineering processes, with the ability to engage deeply with engineering teams and other stakeholders on product development lifecycle best practicesGTM Alignment: Demonstrated ability to align technical program execution with Go-To-Market strategies, ensuring smooth collaboration and synchronization between Engineering, Product, Design, and GTM teams to meet business outcomesCross-Functional Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead across Engineering, Product, Design, and other teams to align on priorities and drive executionExceptional Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with experience tailoring messages for technical and non-technical audiences at all levelsProblem Solving & Execution: Analytical mindset with a focus on identifying solutions to challenges and delivering outcomes. Experience managing ambiguity and competing prioritiesAgile Practices: Hands-on experience with Agile frameworks and methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe, and a track record of improving team workflowsSelf-Starter: Thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where autonomy, ownership, and proactive decision-making are keyContinuous Improvement: Committed to driving process improvements and leveraging feedback to enhance future program deliveryYou'll get competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.
For US based applicants:
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 - $180,000 annually + equity + benefits
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location
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Attentive Company Values
Default to Action - Move swiftly and with purpose
Be One Unstoppable Team - Rally as each other’s champions
Champion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers' success
Act Like an Owner - Take responsibility for Attentive’s success
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If you do not meet all the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply! No job description is perfect, and we may also have another opportunity that closely matches your skills and experience.
At Attentive, we know that our Company's strength lies in the diversity of our employees. Attentive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities for all employees, applicants and covered individuals regardless of protected characteristics. We prioritize and maintain a fair, inclusive and equitable workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Attentive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need any assistance or reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.