Staff Technical Program Manager

Job Description

We are looking for Staff Technical Program Managers to help us run Wolt engineering at scale while maintaining our commitment to security, privacy, and compliance. The TPM role is an integral one at Wolt, you’ll be a part of a forward-thinking team, dedicated to excellence. If you're looking for a place where your experience in technical program management and expertise in getting things done will drive meaningful change, this is the one.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will be facilitating business, product and engineering groups. Your goals are driving technical programs that span across the organization, define and track key performance metrics, and align priorities.

The scope can be broad, and the responsibilities run deep. The role requires wide technical understanding, world-class program management skills, a strong will to win hearts and minds, top-notch orchestration, and the cultural approach and attitude to make it all happen.

The Technical Program Manager is data driven, passionate about the craft of software engineering, a jack/jill of all trades and a master of some. They advocate for complex technical programs across the organization, ensuring alignment and influencing without authority. They define, groom, facilitate, and ultimately own the technical programs they are running.

This role can be based either in our Berlin, Helsinki or Stockholm tech hubs with flexible office/ work from home opportunities.

The main responsibilities include:

Owning cross-organizational technical programs with the focus on compliance

• Running technical initiatives across teams, groups and business units, ensuring alignment with compliance requirements and business objectives.
• Building alignment with team roadmaps and defining priorities to ensure adherence to industry standards, regulations and internal policies.
• Managing stakeholders from engineering to product to legal and operations to drive compliance initiatives
• Acting as a catalyst, significantly increasing the efficiency of product and engineering teams working together
  
  

Helping to run engineering at scale

• Working with internal audit, legal teams, senior engineers, and engineering and product leaders to define key technical initiatives
• Identifying key metrics and making sure they are relevant and followed
• Building business-driven cases for technical programs to advocate and prioritize them across the organization
  
  

Making the complex simple

• Deciding and acting through ambiguity while clarifying it for everyone in the organization
• Codifying key processes, architectures, and choices
• Constantly improving how we run technical programs
• Supporting teams in building the right things in the right ways
  
  

Our humble expectations

We expect solid prior experience in a similar role in an agile environment alongside technical expertise. World-class project management and interpersonal skills are a must.

Next Steps

The position will be filled as soon as we find the right person, so make sure to apply as soon as you realize you really, really want to join us!

The compensation will be a negotiable combination of monthly pay and DoorDash RSUs. The latter makes it exceptionally easy to be excited about our company growing and doing well, as you’ll own a piece of the pie.

About Wolt

Wolt is a Helsinki-based technology company that provides an online platform for consumers, merchants and couriers. It connects people looking to order food and other goods with people interested in selling and delivering them. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local logistics to retail software and financial solutions – as well as operating its own grocery stores under the Wolt Market brand. Wolt’s products include Wolt+ (subscription service for customers), Wolt for Work (meal benefits and office deliveries for companies), Wolt Drive (fast last-mile deliveries for merchants) and Wolt Self-Delivery (service for merchant partners with their own delivery staff). Wolt’s mission is to make cities better by empowering and growing local communities. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 29 countries today, 25 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.

Working in Product Development at Wolt

At Wolt, we’re about getting things done. You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people.

The behind the scenes of Wolt is run by an awesome bunch of over 700+ planners, builders, designers and data crunchers. We call ourselves Product+, as we’re the very core of Wolt’s products, tools and platforms. To build our products, we work in over 60 cross-functional, independent and autonomous teams. Teams are made up of a mix of talented individuals: engineers, designers, data scientists, analysts, and product leads. Each team takes ownership for solving customer problems in the best possible way.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We want to have all sorts of people in our team – people like you and me, and people different from you and me. To be able to work with diverse teammates – when it comes to gender, age, ethnicity, life background, sexual orientation, political views, religion, or any other personal trait – we consciously aim to offer equal opportunity for everyone to work with us. This is because we believe diverse teams make the most thought-through decisions and build things in the most inclusive way.

Join us today to build Wolt together.