Technical Program Manager
Austin, TX - USA
Job Summary
About SurePoint
SurePoint Technologies delivers award-winning software that helps mid-sized law firms boost efficiency and maximize financial performance. Our cloud-based solutions connect client management practice management and financial systems to improve efficiency and collaboration.
With over 40 years in legal tech and a team of CPAs former lawyers and top engineers we understand what law firms need to thrive. Were passionate about building tools that reduce administrative work so our customers can focus on what matters most: serving their clients.
Job Overview:
SurePoint Technologies is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to drive the successful completion of complex cross-team initiatives through agile program leadership transparent reporting risk and dependency management and hands-on coaching to improve how teams plan collaborate and deliver. This role blends technical fluency business acumen stakeholder leadership and pragmatic agile project management to accelerate value creation product/service quality and business growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Program & Delivery Leadership: Own program-level planning and coordinate cross-team execution without undermining team autonomy. Remove impediments and address organizational dysfunctions that hinder delivery.
- Stakeholder & Communication Management: Serve as primary point of contact for assigned efforts. Provide clear consistent status reporting lead stakeholder conversations on tradeoffs and ensure decisions are recorded and communicated.
- Risk & Dependency Management: Proactively manage/mitigate/eliminate risks and cross-team dependencies. Support compliance and governance needs by advising teams and enabling lightweight effective practices.
- Agile Coaching & Capability Building: Coach Product Owners Engineering Managers/Leaders and teams on effective agile planning refinement collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Process Optimization & Enablement: Define implement and fine-tune processes runbooks and templates to enable self-service capabilities and drive repeatable efficient execution.
- Portfolio Flow & Capacity: Assist leaders in managing the inflow of work. Improve flow metrics and predictability across the program.
Qualifications:
- 5 years of program/project management experience in software/technology environments including cross-team delivery
- Strong understanding of software delivery fundamentals (SDLC CI/CD concepts environments release coordination incident/risk basics)
- Proven ability to produce executive-ready status reporting convey business context and facilitate decision making across stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience applying agile project management practices in real-world situations
- Experience coaching or mentoring teams to improve planning execution and continuous improvement
- Excellent facilitation skills for workshops and working sessions
- Strong written communication and documentation habits
Additional Qualifications that are nice to have:
- Ability to work on-site 2-3 days out of the week
- Experience with Atlassian (Jira Confluence) administration
- Experience building training programs onboarding materials or internal coaching communities
- Experience with multi-team scaling patterns
- One or more relevant certifications from Project Management Institute (e.g. PMP PMI-ACP) Scrum Alliance (e.g. A-CSM CSPO CSP-SM) or similar
Success Metrics (For Internal Purpose):
- Delivery outcomes: Program goals met with clear definition of done and measurable value delivered within expected constraints.
- Predictability & transparency: Stakeholders consistently understand status risks and likely outcomes; fewer surprises.
- Risk management effectiveness: Risks identified early tracked visibly and mitigated before becoming incidents.
- Flow & focus: Reduced work-in-progress and better alignment to capacity; fewer stalled initiatives due to unmanaged dependencies.
- Team enablement: Teams report fewer impediments clearer decision pathways and improved ability to self-organize.
- Continuous improvement: Observable improvement in collaboration refinement readiness quality practices and team ownership behaviors over time.
- Stakeholder satisfaction: Strong partnership ratings from Product Engineering Security/Compliance and leadership.
At SurePoint we know our people are our greatest strength. Thats why we offer a comprehensive total rewards package and were always evolving our benefits to support employee needs at every stage of life and career.
Benefits Include
- Health Insurance (medical dental vision)
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Life Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurance (employer paid)
- Health Savings Accounts
- Wellbeing Benefits
- 401K (immediately vested employer match)
- Paid Time Off (Flexible PTO holidays)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Summer Flex Fridays
To learn more about SurePoint and our products visit our corporate web site at and follow us on LinkedIn Facebook and Twitter.
SurePoint is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered without regard to race color sex sexual orientation gender identity religion national origin ancestry age physical or mental disability veteran status medical condition or any other classification protected by law.
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About Company
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