Technical Program Manager

Paxos is on a mission to enable the movement of any asset, any time, in a trustworthy way. Today's financial infrastructure is archaic, expensive, inefficient and risky - supporting a system that leaves out more people than it lets in. So we're rebuilding it.

As a regulated blockchain infrastructure company, we use technology to tokenize, custody, trade, and settle assets for enterprise clients like PayPal, Novi, Bank of America, and Interactive Brokers. Paxos is a top-funded blockchain company, with more than $500 million in total funding from leading investors like OakHC/FT, Founders Fund, PayPal Ventures, and Declaration Partners. Together, we empower today's financial leaders to build a more open, trusted economy.

Our Engineering team is looking for a Technical Program Manager to join our growing team. You will be driving strategy and execution in the team collaborating with other teams and stakeholders. We are looking for an experienced TPM who can strategize, plan and execute in a complex, fast paced hyper growth startup, with multi-areas development efforts at an enterprise standards and scale. We have multiple openings across the platform; working with our core services team, data, tools, IT & governance as well as security. In each of these roles, you will work closely with the EMs and the team to come up with a roadmap, features, priorities the work and partner with other cross functional teams and coordinate execution.

As a Technical Program Manager, you'll get to:

• Articulate the technology, requirements, goals and milestones of your team.
• Perform risk management and change management on projects.
• Work with the team to develop end-to-end project plans, influence teams to deliver against them, and keep the org and leadership informed on progress.
• Drive internal process improvements across multiple teams and functions.
• Work with teams to set milestones, communicate project statuses, and identify/address potential setbacks.
• Effectively coordinating and communicating with relevant Infrastructure counterparts, product teams, privacy, legal, and policy cross-functional teams
• Work with engineering to ensure what we build has the right balance of cost vs. benefit, and focuses on addressing the highest priority needs
• Provide day-to-day coordination and quality assurance for projects and tasks.
• Drive internal process improvements across multiple teams and functions, and measure impact by defining meaningful metrics to meet engineering and company OKRs.
• Understand the release management system and assist with releases.
• Manage ongoing learnings and maintenance procedures.
• Provide hands on program management with deep understanding of the need to deliver production systems full speed and at scale.

Your experience should include:

• 8+ years of experience in technical program management.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.

You might also have:

• Communication and interpersonal experience, including relationship building and collaboration within a cross-functional team.
• Knowledge of software development processes and best practices.
• Experience applying fundamental security and privacy concepts to large scale systems.
• Experience developing software roadmaps for complex platforms with internal customers and stakeholders.
• Experience managing vendors and negotiating agreements.
• Communication and interpersonal experience, including relationship building and collaboration within a cross-functional team.
• Ability or experience to work at scale, and with 24x7 production engineering teams.

What you'll love about Paxos:

Paxos has consistently been named as a "Best Place to Work" by BuiltIn and was recently listed on the 2021 Forbes Fintech 50. All of our employees have significant ownership and impact on our business, as well as benefits like company equity, health insurance, family leave, a quarterly stipend for development, a stipend for home office setup and unlimited PTO. From team product demos and virtual lounge and learns to care packages and an active Slack #shoutouts channel, there are countless opportunities to connect and make your mark. Help us continue to build a new, open financial system from one of our three offices or right from your home!

Learn more:

• USDP Stablecoin Chosen for Facebook's Pilot of Novi Digital Wallet
• Forbes Names Paxos to 2021 Fintech 50
• Paxos Supports Interactive Brokers' Journey into Crypto Markets
• CB Insights Names Paxos to 2021 Fintech 250 for Crypto Category
• Paxos Supports Flourish Crypto
• Paxos National Trust Receives OCC Conditional Approval for De Novo Charter
• Paxos Raises $300M in Series D Funding at 2.4B Valuation
• Paxos & PayPal Bring Crypto to Millions of Users

Our Paxos team is made up of passionate people from all over the world with different perspectives and experiences. If this opportunity excites you, but your experience doesn't perfectly match the description…apply! Unique voices help us build a more transparent and open economy.

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