Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. As a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, you will lead complex technical initiatives, drive enterprise-wide alignment, and influence organizational direction while ensuring high-quality program delivery.
Responsibilities
- Define and own program strategy for the most complex, cross-pillar technical initiatives at Fanatics, with direct accountability to VP and C-suite leadership
- Anticipate organizational and technical risks at a systems level; develop mitigation strategies before they impact delivery or business outcomes
- Translate enterprise roadmaps and business strategy into scalable, actionable program frameworks and operating models
- Drive prioritization and investment tradeoffs across multiple Engineering pillars in partnership with senior leadership
- Serve as the senior TPM voice in executive forums, steering committees, and cross-functional planning sessions
- Build deep partnerships with VPs, SVPs, and C-suite stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Marketing Technology, and Customer Support
- Drive alignment across competing priorities and organizations; navigate ambiguity and organizational complexity with confidence and clarity
- Influence without authority at all levels
- Lead delivery of the most critical and complex programs across FBG's FCore domain, ensuring high-quality outcomes at pace
- Establish and own program health frameworks, including OKRs, KPIs, risk registers, and delivery scorecards
- Proactively identify systemic bottlenecks and implement structural solutions — not just tactical fixes
- Architect and implement scalable, repeatable program management frameworks
- The ability to define standards for SDLC governance, delivery rigor, ATS workflows, and reporting accuracy at an enterprise level
- Drive continuous improvement of how FBG plans, builds, and ships — improving speed, quality, and engineering experience simultaneously
- Maintain deep fluency in distributed systems, microservice architectures, and platform engineering — applying this knowledge to program strategy and risk identification
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices; translate insights into organizational recommendations
- Partner with Engineering leadership to evaluate build vs. buy decisions and shape technical direction at a program level
Skills
- 8+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager, with demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide, multi-pillar programs
- 10+ years of direct experience working with Software Engineering teams at scale
- Proven track record of executive-level stakeholder management (VP, SVP, C-suite), including leading steering committees and executive readouts
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable program frameworks adopted across large engineering organizations
- Strong data fluency — ability to build executive-ready narratives from complex program data, model risk, and drive decisions through insight
- Deep expertise across multiple SDLC methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and ability to prescribe the right model for a given context
- Experience managing programs across large, matrixed tech organizations with multiple P&L verticals and shared services (e.g., platform/infrastructure dependencies)
- High ownership mindset with exceptional executive presence, communication, and influence skills
- Demonstrated experience mentoring and elevating TPM peers and junior practitioners
- Comfort in using AI Tools to drive better efficiency and more effective outcomes (Claude, ChatGPT)
- Experience in regulated industries (iGaming, fintech, or similar) with an understanding of compliance-driven program constraints
- Deep experience with microservice-based architectures and distributed systems at scale
- Experience operating in a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment across multiple teams
- Comfort operating as an organizational thought leader — shaping how TPM as a discipline functions across a company
- Experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments with rapidly shifting priorities and organizational structures
Benefits
- Ranges will change based on country and state of residence, which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics Betting and Gaming.
- The range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual offer is confirmed.
- In addition to the base and bonus, full-time employment, and more.
- For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
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