marketplaces, airlines, and QSRs. Join us to shape the future of payments! Visit to learn more about us! Role Overview Technical Program Manager to lead and scale our payments product initiatives. This role will act as t…
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Program Manager jobs in San Francisco, CA
Program managers oversee groups of related projects that serve a shared goal. They align teams, budgets, and schedules across workstreams and report progress and risk to leadership.
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Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. We lead complex technical programs that help Plaid scale its engineering platform. We partner... ...You'll partner with engineering leaders to align stakeholders, manage dependencie…
native workflows, enriched customer intelligence, and increasingly interconnected systems. We are looking for a Technical Systems Program Manager to help drive the strategy, alignment, prioritization, and execution of th…
POSITION Senior Technical Program Manager: Marketing Programs LOCATION San Francisco, CA- Hybrid Tues-Thur, Remote Mon/Fri REQUIRED SKILLS 7+ years of program or project management experience managing complex, cross-func…
$163.64k - $336.9k
You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.As a Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager for Search Signals at Pinterest, you will lead company-level programs that are…
hardware designs into safe, high-quality products that can be manufactured reliably at scale. As the Senior/Staff Technical Program Manager for Manufacturing Strategy & Operations, you will serve as a strategic partner t…
$140k - $200k
Be dependable - Take ownership and deliver with high agency. Position Overview We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to build and lead the systems that ensure our robots are trained on the most accurate,…
$130k - $150k
electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the... ..., please visit Role Description As a Technical Program Manager (TPM) for the…
$87k - $120k
scalable, secure, and compliant environment, anchored on three programs: Oncall Modernization, Cloud Infrastructure Modernization, and... ...This role owns the program layer so our ICs and Engineering Managers can refocu…
We design and create datasets from scratch, recruit and manage the domain experts who evaluate model output, and run everything... ...delivery excellence Required Qualifications ~8+ years in program/ technical program ma…
$140k - $190k
develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. We are looking for a Hardware Technical Program Manager to join us and advance the development of all our product lines (Industrial, Ov…
Job Description Job Description About the Job You will be aligned with our long-standing client in the Technical Program Manager (TPM) . The candidate should be aware of the latest trends in this industry as are applicab…
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What program managers earn in San Francisco
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $47–$64 | $98k–$133k |
| Mid level | $64–$91 | $133k–$189k |
| Senior | $88–$121 | $182k–$252k |
Adjusted for the San Francisco market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
Cross-team coordinationProgram governanceRoadmap planningRisk and dependency managementExecutive communicationBudget oversightChange managementMetrics and OKR tracking
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
How is program management different from project management?
Frame programs as ongoing and outcome-oriented across multiple projects, while projects have fixed scope and end dates. Use an example from your own work.
Describe a program you ran across multiple teams.
Explain the shared goal, how many workstreams you coordinated, and the mechanisms you used to keep them aligned, such as shared milestones and a single status view.
How do you handle a dependency between two teams that is blocking progress?
Show you make dependencies visible early, negotiate sequencing directly with both leads, and escalate with options rather than complaints.
How do you report program status to executives?
Describe a concise format: goal, health, top risks, decisions needed. Emphasize surfacing what leadership must act on, not everything you know.
Tell me about a time you had to kill or pause a workstream.
Show that you used data to make the case, handled the affected team with respect, and redirected capacity toward the program goal.
How do you keep a long-running program from drifting away from its original goal?
Mention regular checkpoints against the business case, a change-control habit for scope, and re-validating assumptions as conditions shift.
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Resume tips that move the needle
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Describe programs by their business outcome and total scope, such as budget and number of workstreams, not by ceremony lists.
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Show altitude: pair one executive-level result with one example of unblocking teams in the details.
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Quantify coordination scale, for example the number of teams, vendors, or regions you aligned.
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Include a governance artifact you built, like a risk framework or reporting cadence, that outlived the program.
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If your programs were technical, name the domains so recruiters can match you to platform, infra, or launch roles.
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