Do you like to bring order to chaos while working with a team of talented, uplifting people? We are seeking a software technical program manager to help us prioritize, organize, and track our product software efforts. This is an intensely collaborative position, and while it’s very remote-friendly, candidates must be able to work a US Pacific timezone schedule.

• Work with internal stakeholders on product software development priorities, schedule, and tradeoffs – clarify product software goals more than manage activity towards unclear goals

• Collaborate with peers and other functions across hardware and software engineering to understand the dependencies between work streams and implement best practices around program management

• Support teams in identifying and mitigating blockers and risks to delivering high quality software features to customers while continuously improving release processes and tools

• Model transparency in communication, ensuring all teams have the context they need to make good product decisions. Align cross-functional teams around the scope and urgency of requests and changes by avoiding siloed messaging.

• Manage programs with a light touch - helping teams stay focused on delivering the product vision through high level planning and facilitation

• Contribute to process documentation and help maintain the accuracy of data in our program management tools. Make recommendations to improve our ways of working

• Contribute to other areas of the product that interest you–beyond your day-to-day program management duties

• Have previously worked with complex cross-functional software deliverables involving multiple teams and evolving priorities

• Would call communication your superpower and can converse clearly and succinctly with both engineering teams and the rest of the company

• Demonstrate good judgement and often consider the impact of communications and actions on others. Validate assumptions, especially your own

• Feel a sense of responsibility for the success of the engineering teams and the product, and measure that success in their terms

• Are thorough and organized without losing big picture focus

• Build trust by following through with integrity and leading by example. Motivate and empower teams with humility and respect

• Aren’t intimidated by ambiguity but rather find creative ways to navigate through it

• Can work hours that correspond to working hours in the US Pacific timezone

• Are energized by the thought of operating between traditional roles and silos

• Value the written word, can concisely communicate in written form

• Get excited about a wide range of technical topics and dig really deeply into them

• Learn enough about our product to understand what we’re building

• Listen to "Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz" to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.

• Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends to get a sense for how we operate. A few recommendations:

  • RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide on how we got to our writing-intensive culture

  • Cultural Idiosyncrasies on the (many?) unusual aspects of Oxide’s culture

  • RTO or GTFO on why Oxide is a remote-first company

  • Systems Software in the Large on a multi-year effort to develop full-system update

  • Building a Quorum of Trust in the Oxide Rack on a big (and important) software feature we recently added to the Oxide rack

Working at Oxide