Technical Program Manager

Affirma is a full-service technology consultancy. We provide a breadth and depth of expertise while maintaining the personal touch of a boutique firm. Our teams specialize in helping organizations of all sizes solve their most challenging business pain points by creating custom in-house solutions. We offer services ranging from business intelligence, web design and creative consulting, infrastructure, and so much more. At Affirma we are extremely passionate and dedicated to our customer satisfaction. Our teams focus on ensuring we are delivering dependable and reliable solutions with every project we work on.

This is an opportunity with one of our clients!

Our team is expanding and we're looking for experienced TPM to help manage test, characterization, metrology, and data infrastructure for our AR products. As a test TPM, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing test solutions for multiple AR lines of products. This TPM will scope, plan, and deliver test hardware builds and test program releases contributing to the AR products and services. They will work with engineers and product managers, strategically managing projects from development to post launch/in-market. We are looking for TPMs with a proven track record of developing and shipping high quality products and experiences. This role will have the opportunity to work closely with world-class development teams and leaders across the organization to deliver trustworthy experiences into AR products at Meta.

Responsibilities

• Define release strategy and build and execute release road maps for the programs you own.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute hardware builds and test program releases for our products. Develop release plans, schedules, processes, procedures, and documentation in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Dive deep into technical systems to triage risks and issues found, take necessary actions to mitigate them and stay connected to the details to help make the right release tradeoffs.
• Create, maintain, and communicate program release progress and updates to all stakeholders
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across XFN teams (quality assurance, product management, and other stakeholders) with varied priorities.
• Demonstrate a strong bias for action to handle multiple build priorities simultaneously
• Responsible for overall coordination quality and be your programs' primary point of contact for tests.
• Drive technical excellence within the team, coordinating and contributing to engineering deliverables including architectural diagrams, specifications, launch criteria, and test plans.
• Continuously improve the release management process and tools to increase efficiency and quality.
• Responsible for delivering results by working in an ambiguous environment
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices related to release management.

Minimum qualifications

• Prior experience with Meta can be considered to supplement an applicant's prior years of experience or types of prior experience to meet the minimum qualifications of the position.
• 2+ years experience as a technical program manager .
• 3+ years of test engineering, systems engineering, or software engineering experience.
• S. in Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in leading complex execution across multiple teams in different time zones, anticipating roadblocks and creating a path forward.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with experience working effectively with cross-functional teams. Experience with release management tools and systems.
• Project management skills with demonstrated experience managing cross-functional programs in a matrix organization covering a range of areas.
• Experience working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership.
• Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience implementing and managing software release management process for 0 to 1 consumer device products.
• Experience in working with DevOps and Agile methodologies
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CD/CI) pipelines.
• Good understanding of application infrastructure, system architecture, and operating system.
• Experience and / or knowledge of Automated Test Equipment (ATE)

Affirma is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not make employment decisions or otherwise discriminates based on race, creed, color, national origin, sex, military status, sexual orientation, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by law.