[Remote] Staff Technical Program Manager, Queryable Encryption

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MongoDB is an innovative company redefining the data platform for the AI era. The Staff Technical Program Manager for Queryable Encryption will lead complex cross-functional efforts, ensuring successful delivery while collaborating with diverse teams to enhance product vision and security initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own the successful delivery of complex, cross-functional efforts for Queryable Encryption
• Partner closely with stakeholders across the organization from Engineering, Product, Cryptography, Analytics, and Field-facing teams to develop and execute against our overall product vision and business objectives
• Uncover solutions to technical challenges and provide data-driven insights that power strategic decision-making
• Leverage technical acumen and analytical skills to drive engineering programs forward and maximize business value delivery
• Recognize patterns in a sea of information and take action accordingly
• Develop a strategic approach to program management that balances hands-on oversight with process-driven operationalization
• Build strategic partnerships with Product, Crypto, Engineering, Analytics, and Marketing stakeholders
• Drive alignment across security, server, drivers, developer experience, and supporting teams, identifying dependencies early and resolving friction before it slows delivery
• Help teams navigate technical and organizational trade-offs across security, usability, compatibility, performance, and operability
• Contribute to the TPM organization by mentoring peers and helping raise the quality bar for program leadership and written artifacts

Skills

• Experienced with 10+ years of working in an engineering organization leading complex cross-functional technical programs
• Technically fluent, with the ability to partner credibly with engineers and leaders on architecture, APIs, systems behavior, delivery risk, and implementation trade-offs
• Experienced in one or more relevant domains such as security, privacy, distributed systems, databases, infrastructure, or other technically demanding product areas
• Able to partner with technical stakeholders in methodically breaking down engineering challenges to deliver against abstract goals
• Able to participate in technical design discussions and summarize trade-offs, outcomes, and next steps
• Skilled at communicating across a diverse set of engineers and stakeholders
• Capable of deep user empathy and adept at balancing product goals, customer needs, and engineering constraints to deliver impactful experiences
• Hyper-organized and capable of coordinating across multiple independent work streams and organizations
• A role model for effective execution practices, driven by an attuned sense of priority and urgency
• Able to leverage their experience in program delivery to influence improvements to our tools, operations, and architecture
• Trained in working with project tracking software (e.g. Jira, Rally, MS Project)
• Familiar with MongoDB or a comparable technology
• Experienced in security-sensitive domains or products where privacy, compliance, trust, or resilience meaningfully shape product and engineering decisions
• Hands-on software development experience can help in this role, but we care most about demonstrated technical depth, program leadership, and the ability to operate effectively in a highly technical environment

Benefits

• Equity
• Participation in the employee stock purchase program
• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• 401(k) plan
• Mental health counseling
• Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
• Health benefits offerings

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