Technical Program Manager, Network

The role

The Technical Program Manager will own task tracking, timeline accountability, and communication across engineering, business development, and vendors. You will roadmap infrastructure work and pressure-test technical feasibility for delivery timelines.

What you will do

• Own Jira hygiene and task tracking for the network team
• Build a system for tracking work, exposing dependencies, and catching timeline slips
• Partner with the network team technical lead to roadmap infrastructure work
• Pressure-test proposed timelines and BD requests for technical feasibility
• Host vendor meetings and hold vendors accountable to delivery commitments
• Deconflict priorities and dependencies across the network team and adjacent teams
• Translate technical network work for non-technical stakeholders
• Translate business requests into realistic technical asks for engineering
• Help define the org model for program management and execution responsibilities

Required qualifications

• Technical program management experience in a fast-moving engineering environment
• Track record of bringing structure to ambiguous, cross-team work
• Comfort learning a new technical domain quickly to challenge engineering judgment
• Experience building systems for tracking work, surfacing dependencies, and holding owners accountable
• Strong communication skills to translate between technical teams and business/vendor stakeholders
• Comfort engaging directly with external vendors

Nice to have

• Experience with network or telco infrastructure: traffic routing, cloud connectivity, configuration, or subscriber provisioning
• Experience at a company building or operating physical/network infrastructure rather than pure software
• Prior experience supporting consumer products alongside more technical/infrastructure work

Benefits

• 401(k) match
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Family-forming stipends
• Gender-affirming care stipends
• Unlimited PTO

About the company

Cape is America’s privacy-first mobile carrier founded in 2022. They built their own secure network from the ground up to provide privacy to consumers, businesses, and government agencies.