Senior Program Manager
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$ 129470 - 172632
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Job Description
Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastlys edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly securely and reliably by processing serving and securing our customers applications as close to their end-users as possible at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet to be programmable and to support agile software development. Fastlys customers include many of the worlds most prominent companies including Vimeo Pinterest The New York Times and GitHub.
Were building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.
Posting Open Date: 6/5/25
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 8/5/25
*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Senior Program Manager - Product & Engineering
Fastly is looking for a passionate Senior Program Manager to drive execution of critical product development and engineering efforts across our business. This role will partner with leadership in Program Management Product Engineering Marketing Customer Success Sales and others to develop plans and drive successful business outcomes.
The ideal candidate excels at understanding both the business objectives and technical execution of improving Fastlys platform and delivering products that delight customers. The role will be responsible for helping teams create plans coordinate workstreams deliver results and keep management informed. Youll drive multiple programs simultaneously build transparency within the organization enable informed prioritization decisions using data and identify potential issues.
Youll be a leader at Fastly. You will engage teams to enable our products platform and tools to be more powerful and more useful to our customers. Youll be essential to our success relied upon by a wide array of individuals and teams. The projects and programs you lead will give you a clear line of sight to the benefit delivered to Fastlys customers and our bottom line.
This is a role which has an impact on a large number of human lives. We provide a supportive environment with friendly teams where you can learn and develop. We check our egos at the door. Youll make sure our customers benefit from services built to the highest standards in the industry. We are a global distributed team with the dedication and tools in place to make it work.
This position reports into our Director of Program Management.
What Youll Do:
- Manage a portfolio of Product and Engineering-led programs through a full program lifecycle of definition through launch
- Work closely with cross-functional resources as primary point of contact representing the Product and Engineering teams
- Participate in regular planning help teams remove blockers handle dependencies and drive resolution to prioritization decisions
- Work with teams during quarterly planning to ensure that mechanisms are built to accurately track and status deliverables during execution periods.
- Ensure timely updates on OKRs and KPIs from teams including product adoption delivery quality and platform health
- Instill discipline and consistency within the Product and Engineering teams in terms of operational methodologies and documentation working with Director & Senior Director level resources
- Coordinate across teams often using varied project management techniques
- Lead special efforts as needed and support improvement of team processes
What Were Looking For:
- 6 years proven experience in Program Management
- 5 years of product development GTM or software engineering program experience and various methodologies including Agile practices
- Strong communication problem-solving and facilitation skills
- Experience working with distributed teams and remote working environments
- Demonstrated ability to lead team initiatives by influence
- Process and detail oriented yet comfortable with ambiguity
- Effective analytical skills with a drive toward providing measurable data
- Strong sense of ownership with a willingness to go above and beyond to chase down loose ends that lead to successful delivery
- Focus on results and outcome not just process
- Strong action bias preference for execution and incremental improvements
- Comfortable with change multi-tasking and managing priorities with outstanding organizational skills
- Self-motivated and proactive to maintain momentum and progress and an ability to operate autonomously
- Collaborator who can execute whilst building positive relationships proven capability in reducing organizational impedance and possesses the appropriate levels of urgency
- Ability to integrate experiences and training to learn new technological paradigms.
Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours.
Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:
This position is open to the following preferred office locations:
- New York NY
- Denver CO
Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary:
The estimated salary range for this position is $129470 to $172632.
Starting salary may vary based on permissible non-discriminatory factors such as experience skills qualifications and location.
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastlys equity and discretionary bonus programs.
Benefits:
We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical dental and vision insurance. Family planning mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program Insurance (Life Disability and Accident) a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2025 we offer 11 paid local holidays 11 paid company wellness days.
Why Fastly
We have a huge impact.Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only doour customershave a tremendous user base but we also support a growing number ofopen source projects and of code employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
We love distributed teams. Fastlys home-base is in San Francisco but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly participate in hands-on learning opportunities and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand.
We value diversity.Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
We are passionate.Fastly is chock full of passionate people and were not one size fits all. Fastly employs authors pilots skiers parents (of humans and animals) makeup geeks coffee connoisseurs and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.
Were always looking for humble sharp and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.
Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin family or parental status physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
