Staff Technical Program Manager

About Wolt

At Wolt we create technology that brings joy simplicity and earnings to the neighborhoods of the 2014 we started with delivery of restaurant food. Now were building the delivery of (almost) everything and youll find us in over 500 cities in 30 countries around the 2022 we joined forces with DoorDash and together we keep on dreaming big and expanding across the globe.

Working at Wolt isnt always easy but its definitely exciting. Here youll learn more build more and ship more than in most other companies. Youll be challenged a lot but also have a lot of fun on the way. So if youre a self-starter with drive and entrepreneurial spirit this could be the ride of your life.

We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to help scale Wolt engineering enhance process efficiency and uphold our commitment to operational excellence. This role is pivotal placing you at the core of a forward-thinking team dedicated to delivering outstanding results. If youre looking for an opportunity where your technical program management expertise and ability to drive impact truly matter this is it.

As a Technical Program Manager you will facilitate collaboration between business product and engineering teams. Your primary goals include driving technical programs that span multiple teams defining and tracking key performance metrics proactively communicating status and risks and ensuring alignment on priorities.

The scope is broad and the responsibilities run deep. The role requires wide technical understanding world-class program management skills a strong will to win hearts and minds top-notch orchestration and the cultural approach and attitude to make it all happen.

The Technical Program Manager is data driven passionate about the craft of software engineering a jack/jill of all trades and a master of some. They advocate for complex technical programs across the organization ensuring alignment and influencing without authority. They define groom facilitate and ultimately own the technical programs they are running.

This role will be based in Berlin (preferably) Helsinki or Stockholm with flexible office or home-based work opportunities.

The main responsibilities include:

• Owning cross-organizational technical programs

- Running technical initiatives across teams groups and business units ensuring alignment with requirements and business objectives.

- Deep dive into unclear areas identify the underlying problems and guides teams in developing scalable solutions

- Managing stakeholders in engineering product legal sales operations and account management teams

- Acting as a catalyst significantly increasing the efficiency of product engineering and business teams working together

• Helping to run engineering at scale

- Working with various internal teams engineering product and business leaders to define key technical initiatives

- Building alignment with team and organizational roadmaps to include key initiatives define priorities and ensure adherence to industry standards regulations and internal policies.

- Identifying key metrics and making sure they are up-to-date and have escalation or remediation plans in place if they exceed guardrails

- Building business-driven cases for technical programs to advocate and prioritize them across the organization

• Making the complex simple
  
  

- Deciding and navigating through ambiguity while providing clarity for everyone in the organization

- Codifying key processes architectures and choices

- Constantly improving how we run technical programs

- Supporting teams in building the right things in the right ways

Our humble expectations

We seek candidates with strong prior experience in a similar role within an agile environment combined with technical expertise. Exceptional project management and interpersonal skills are essential.

Next steps

The position will be filled as soon as we find the right person.

The compensation will be a combination of monthly pay and DoorDash RSUs. The latter makes it exceptionally easy to be excited about our company growing and doing well as youll own a piece of the pie.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Were committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company industry and cities. Thats why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds experiences and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools resources and opportunity to excel.