Senior Technical Program Manager

Description : About Ethos :

Ethos was built to make it faster and easier to get life insurance for the next million families.

Our approach blends industry expertise, technology, and the human touch to find you the right policy to protect your loved ones.

We leverage deep technology and data science to streamline the life insurance process, making it more accessible and convenient.

Using predictive analytics, we are able to transform a traditionally multi-week process into a modern digital experience for our users that can take just minutes! Weve issued billions in coverage each month and eliminated the traditional barriers, ushering the industry into the modern age.

Our full-stack technology platform is the backbone of family financial health.

We make getting life insurance easier, faster and better for everyone.

Our investors include General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Google Ventures, SoftBank, and the investment vehicles of Jay-Z, Kevin Durant, Robert Downey Jr and others.

This year, we were named on CB Insights' Global Insurtech 50 list and BuiltIn's Top 100 Midsize Companies in San Francisco.

We are scaling quickly and looking for passionate people to protect the next million families!.

About The Role :

At Ethos our Technical Program Managers operate within the Engineering organization and have technical knowledge that enables them to influence and drive cross-team projects and roadmaps.

The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator, comfortable in a flat, fast-moving organization, and eager to collaborate to solve difficult challenges and display high agility to allow you to pivot as you lead the company's most pressing initiatives.

In order to thrive in the role we are looking for an individual who is highly organized, and able to thrive and produce in high-pressure, time-sensitive scenarios.

Duties And Responsibilities :

• Develop and manage end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery.
• Partner closely with engineering and product leads to evolve Ethos' product strategy and development.
• Provide hands-on program management during analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation phases.
• Drive internal process improvements across teams and functions, to ensure high performance bars are met across the board.
• Provide day-to-day coordination for projects and tasks.
• Perform the duties of a Scrum Master using agile methodologies and scrum practices.
• Assist teams with having a detailed understanding of agile and scrum framework.
• Participate and facilitate roadmapping, sprint planning sessions, retrospectives, demos, and scrum of scrums.
• Help teams understand and balance dependencies between performance, efficiency, and product functionality.
• Map dependencies and relationships between projects and teams, coordinating efforts across organizations and verticals.
• Communicate status and big picture to the stakeholders and leadership.
• Work independently with minimal supervision.

Qualifications And Skills :

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