# Technical Program Manager

**Company**: Forward Networks
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $190,000 - $220,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Forward Networks is transforming how the world's most complex networks are managed and secured.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will drive execution across engineering programs, including releases, cross-functional initiatives, and the communications and coordination infrastructure that keeps a scaling org aligned.

Key responsibilities:

- Manage releases end-to-end, including SDLC coordination, dependency mapping, and risk identification

- Drive cross-functional programs that span engineering, product, and the technical field

- Develop internal engineering communications, including status reporting and executive updates

- Design lightweight processes that get teams aligned without adding bureaucracy

- Identify opportunities for automation and AI leverage

Requirements:

- Track record of running multi-team SaaS releases and broader engineering programs with complex dependencies

- Technical depth to distinguish realistic from fantasy, with a networking or infrastructure background a plus

- Ability to translate fluently between technical teams and business stakeholders

- Experience building lightweight processes that get followed

- Comfortable challenging unrealistic commitments and unclear program goals

The base pay range for this role is between $190,000 and $220,000.

## Skills

### Required
- release management
- cross-functional programs
- internal engineering communications
- process design
- automation
- AI

### Nice to have
- networking
- infrastructure

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