Senior Technical Program Manager, Cross-Functional Programs

At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.

Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we’re a values driven, fast-growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet. We’re investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community.

We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. At Rover we’re committed to creating an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming community, which starts with our employees.

Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us.

Who We're Looking For
Some programs at Rover don't belong to any one team. They pull in product, engineering, data, operations, and the business all at once, and they're the ones that matter most: the platform bet that changes how three orgs build, the flagship feature that can't ship until four teams build against the same plan, the problem everyone agrees is important and nobody can quite scope.

Those programs need someone who owns them outright. You'll join Rover's Technical Program Management team, a small and growing function that sits at the center of how engineering delivers complex, cross-functional work. TPMs here own how programs get executed, drive alignment across organizational boundaries, and bring structured thinking to the hardest problems on the roadmap, all in service of better experiences for the pet parents and sitters who depend on our platform every day.

Your scope is defined by difficulty rather than by domain. Programs land with you because of their complexity, ambiguity, and visibility, not because of which part of the product they touch. You'll go deep enough in each domain to be genuinely useful, then do it again somewhere else.

Problems arrive without shape, and your first job is to give them one: a problem statement the room can commit to, a scope with an explicit boundary, named owners and decision rights, and a definition of success set before the build starts. Your second is the technical judgment to be a true peer to engineering: reading a dependency chain, evaluating trade-offs without needing full translation, knowing when to slow down and build the durable thing versus speed up and take on debt deliberately, and spotting where we're walking through a one-way door. You won't just run a playbook. You'll help write it, turning each program into repeatable patterns that make the next one sharper.

Most of it comes down to judgment. The role is a steady run of calls with no obviously right answer: when to force a decision and when to let a team keep exploring, when to escalate and when escalating costs more than the delay it saves, when good enough now beats correct later. What matters isn't whether you follow a process, it's whether those instincts are calibrated and you can explain them afterward.

That extends to how you use AI. We're looking for someone who's gone past automating the obvious, like status reports and risk tracking, and is thinking about where these tools change the work more fundamentally: untangling dependencies across a messy program, catching risk earlier in the signal, opening up new ways for distributed teams to collaborate. What matters isn't how many tools you've tried. It's your point of view on where they create real leverage.

This is a role for someone who moves easily across teams and domains, and brings order to complexity without adding bureaucracy.

This is a hybrid position that has the minimum expectation to work out of our Downtown Seattle Office two days per week on Mondays and Thursdays. For this reason, candidates must be based in the Greater Seattle Area or willing to relocate.