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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.
As a software program manager working at Oxide, you will:
- 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
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
- Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
- Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
- Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
- Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
- Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
- Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
- Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
Remote first
Most of our team are based outside of the Bay Area. We do ask that your workday overlaps with Pacific Time for at least four hours.
Flexible working hours
Our families and lives outside of our jobs are very important to us; our schedules are flexible to reflect and support that.
Premium healthcare
We offer the best medical PPO, dental, and vision plans we can find and cover 100% of premiums for employees and dependents.
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Compensation
Everyone at Oxide makes $250,000 USD, regardless of location. (Some sales positions have a lower base salary and contain a commission component.)
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