Technical Program Manager

About Us:
Trusted and loved by 25 million educators, students, and families worldwide, Seesaw is the only elementary learning experience platform, offering a suite of award-winning tools, resources, and curriculum for teachers to deliver joyful, inclusive instruction.  Through interactive lessons, digital portfolios, and two-way communication features, Seesaw keeps everyone in the learning loop by providing continuous visibility into the student's learning experience to support and celebrate their learning.

Our Mission:
Seesaw’s mission is to provide every elementary student with joyful and connected learning experiences that lay the foundation for success in life.

Your Team:
This Technical Program Manager will work across our Growth and Scale Organization, an org of 3 engineering teams focused on enabling the long-term growth and operational efficiency of Seesaw’s platform. The org plays a critical role in building and maintaining the systems that power our core infrastructure, business tooling, and global scalability. Whether it’s managing data integrity across systems, integrating product and business workflows, or enabling new revenue models, the Growth and Scale team ensures Seesaw is set up to support millions of users around the world in a reliable, secure, and performant way.

Your Role:
As a Technical Program Manager at Seesaw, you will lead cross-functional, technically complex initiatives that are foundational to our growth. You’ll drive large-scale programs that intersect product, infrastructure, and business systems — such as enabling differentiated user experiences, implementing role-based access control, supporting payment gateways, and helping to build out a scalable subscription model. You’ll serve as the connective tissue between engineering, product, operations, and go-to-market teams, ensuring seamless execution and alignment across stakeholders. This is a highly impactful role for someone who thrives on navigating technical complexity, solving ambiguous problems, and enabling teams to do their best work.

Your Responsibilities:

• Project Leadership: Define, plan, and execute large-scale, cross-organization programs related to product infrastructure, customer experience, and business systems. Drive key initiatives, helping to break down projects into component parts, identifying & tracking dependencies and opportunities for optimization.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary point of contact for internal stakeholders, including product engineering teams,marketing, sales, customer success and executives. Ensure effective communication and collaboration between diverse teams, keeping everyone informed and aligned with project goals.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with technical and non-technical teams to bridge the gap between organizational, operational, and technical aspects of projects. Facilitate coordination and understanding among different teams to achieve seamless project execution.
• Timeline Management: Develop and manage project schedules, ensuring timely delivery of key milestones and overall project success. Proactively identify and address potential roadblocks or delays to keep projects on track.
• Technical Understanding: Bring or develop a strong understanding of the systems you’re working with (e.g., subscriptions, role-based access, payment systems). Translate technical concepts into clear communications for a wide range of audiences.
• Internal Communications: Serve as the central point of communication for all project-related matters (goals, status, risk, and impact to teams and stakeholders), providing updates, addressing questions, and fostering transparency across the organization. Conduct status meetings and presentations to keep stakeholders informed and engaged.
• Problem Solving: Identify challenges and work collaboratively with teams to develop effective solutions. Proactively anticipate potential issues and implement mitigation strategies to minimize project risks.

Your Requirements:

• 5+ years of proven experience as a Technical Program Manager or in a similar role, managing complex, cross-functional projects in a SaaS or product-led organization
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
• Strong organizational and leadership skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to influence without authority
• Familiarity with infrastructure, data systems, and cloud platforms
• Experience working with systems that power subscriptions, payments, or user access management is a plus
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment
  
  Note: While a background in engineering or computer science is not mandatory, a strong technical acumen and the ability to comprehend technical intricacies are essential.

Compensation & Benefits:
Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry. Salary is just one part of our total compensation package that includes equity, perks & benefits, and development opportunities at Seesaw. Individual pay decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity relative to other Seesawers. It is our expectation that the majority of candidates who are offered roles at Seesaw will land well within our salary ranges based on these factors.

The hiring salary range for this position is: $130,000 - $160,000 + RSUs.

This is an exempt position.

Benefits include: Medical/Dental + Orthodontics/Vision Coverage, 401k Match, Flexible Paid Time Off, Mindfulness First Fridays, Monthly Technology Stipend, Home Office Setup Stipend, Professional Development Stipend, Paid Parental Leave, Charitable Donation Matching, Volunteer Days.

Seesaw cares about building a diverse and inclusive team to better advocate for the needs of our incredibly diverse K-12 users.

We prioritize work-life balance and actually walk the walk — we care a lot about our work, but care more about our employee's well-being. We encourage everyone to work at a sustainable pace and have a flexible vacation policy that people actually use.

Seesaw provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity/gender expression/transgender, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information/characteristics, marital status/registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, or military or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Seesaw complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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