Sr. Technical Program Manager

About this role

Company Description VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Job Description Summary/Objective

Full Swing is hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to own delivery for our highest-complexity, highest-risk programs, often spanning multiple pods or tribes at once. This is an execution and accountability role, not a status-reporting role. You are the person leadership calls when scope is still ambiguous, timelines are contested, and the cost of getting the forecast wrong is real. You bring the plan, not just the process. Beyond running your own programs, you raise the bar for how program management is done across the PMO Center of Excellence: sharper forecasting, tighter dependency management, and more direct accountability. You partner at the Director and VP level on sequencing trade-offs across tribes, and you're a working escalation point when other programs hit trouble. You are measured on whether the programs you own, and the practice you help shape, deliver on the dates that were committed to.

Primary Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential

functions.

● End-to-end delivery for the organization's most complex and highest-risk programs, frequently spanning multiple pods or tribes simultaneously.

● Master timelines built on real engineering capacity and historical throughput across teams, used to make and defend commitments at the leadership level.

● Cross-tribe dependency mapping and resolution. You surface the dependency that will break the date, across team boundaries, and drive it closed before it does.

● Release forecasts leadership builds business commitments on. If a date moves, you're the first to know, the first to say so, and you bring the recovery plan and the trade-offs with you.

● Risk registers for the programs you own, driven to closure, and a working escalation point on other programs' risk when asked in.

● Program reviews and syncs built around decisions and unblocking, not readouts. If a meeting produces only a status

update, it shouldn't be on the calendar.

● Direct, executive-level accountability conversations with engineering, QA, product, and design leads when

commitments slip.

● Sequencing and trade-off recommendations at the Director/VP level when schedule, quality, and scope compete across multiple tribes.

● The forecasting standards, dependency-mapping practices, and program review model used across the PMO Center of Excellence, and mentorship of other TPMs against that bar.

● Post-release retrospectives at the program and practice level, feeding real changes back into estimation and how future programs are planned and staffed.

Qualifications Required Education, Experience & Skills

● 10+ years as a Technical Program Manager (or equivalent technical project/program management role) inside a software engineering organization, including experience owning the most complex or highest-visibility programs in

that org.

● A track record of driving multiple concurrent, cross-team and cross-organization technical programs to on-time delivery in a fast-paced environment, with evidence you can point to specific dates you owned and hit under real

ambiguity or pressure.

● Strong technical fluency: you can read a system architecture diagram, follow and challenge an engineering trade-off discussion, and ask the question that surfaces the actual risk, without needing an engineer to translate for you.

● Demonstrated experience building, defending, and improving data-driven forecasting models based on team

throughput and historical velocity, including for programs spanning multiple teams with competing priorities.

● Advanced fluency in Jira and Confluence: cross-project dependency mapping, release/sprint planning, and building reporting and forecasting tools other TPMs can use, not just your own dashboard.

● Experience operating in agile and/or hybrid delivery models as actually run inside engineering teams, including experience adapting or improving those models, not just following them.

● A demonstrated bias toward resolving problems directly with the people who own them rather than escalating or documenting first, and experience coaching other TPMs toward that same bias.

● Excellent written and verbal communication, calibrated for direct, executive-level candor with Directors and VPs rather than diplomatic hedging.

● Experience influencing and informing roadmap sequencing or trade-off decisions at the Director/VP level.

● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience.

Preferred Education, Experience & Skills

● Experience as a Senior TPM or Program Management lead in a games, simulation, consumer hardware, or interactive entertainment company.

● Experience running or overseeing programs that span multiple concurrent product lines or business units.

● Experience partnering directly with QA leadership on release readiness and go/no-go gating criteria for high-stakes releases.

● Experience building or formalizing a program management practice (standards, tooling, forecasting models) from an earlier, less mature state.

● PMP, SAFe, or equivalent certification is a plus, but real delivery track record at scale matters more than credentials.

Additional Information As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to . VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc. VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.

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