Senior Technical Program Manager, Tecovas
$120-130k
+ Corporate Bonus Program
Online cowboy boots retailer
Open for applications
Online cowboy boots retailer
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$120-130k
+ Corporate Bonus Program
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the most beloved heritage western brand in the world by creating unparalleled products, experiences, and joy for everyone who crosses our path.
Role
Who you are
- You thrive working across diverse technical domains and bring a collaborative, solutions-oriented, positive mindset to everything you do
- 7+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering program management, or related roles, working closely with software engineering teams
- Proven success leading large-scale, complex technical programs involving multiple engineering teams, systems, business stakeholder groups and dependencies
- Strong experience partnering with engineering leaders on technical planning, delivery forecasting, and capacity management
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively within Agile / Scrum environments, including sprint planning, backlog management, and release coordination
- Excellent customer intuition; demonstrated success in identifying, prioritizing and delivering product capabilities to delight customers
- Experience translating business and product goals into clear technical requirements, milestones, and delivery plans
- Track record of driving alignment across engineering, product, data, and business stakeholders in fast-paced environments
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data to assess delivery health, identify risks, and inform decisions
- Experience managing external vendors or development partners as part of an integrated delivery model
- Bonus points for prior experience in direct-to-consumer, retail, or eCommerce environments
- You have the capacity to handle multiple tasks, set priorities, schedule and meet deadlines
- You have excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with an ability to influence at executive level
- You have a proven track record of earning trust with stakeholders who may possess disparate working styles
- You take pride in the quality and durability of your work
What the job involves
- Tecovas is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead the delivery of complex, cross-functional technical initiatives across the organization
- Reporting to the Director of Program Management, you will own program execution end-to-end—driving prioritization, timelines, and alignment while partnering closely with engineering and technology leaders
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-quarter technical programs spanning engineering, data, product, and business teams
- Drive program strategy, roadmap alignment, and execution, ensuring initiatives are tightly aligned to business objectives and customer outcomes
- Establish and continuously improve program management frameworks, operating rhythms, and best practices across the Technology organization
- Serve as the primary point of accountability for delivery commitments, proactively identifying risks, dependencies, and trade-offs
- Partner closely with senior engineering and product leaders to define scope, and resourcing, including roadmap and capacity planning
- Translate high-level business goals into clear, actionable technical requirements, user stories, milestones, and success metrics
- Provide executive-level communication and reporting, delivering concise, data-driven updates on status, risks, and outcomes
- Influence decision-making through deep understanding of technical architecture, delivery constraints, and customer impact
- Drive feature prioritization and dependency management in partnership with engineering and product, including level-of-effort estimation
- Anticipate and resolve delivery challenges, escalating with clear options and recommendations when leadership decisions are required
- Mentor and coach other program managers, helping raise the bar on program execution, communication, and stakeholder trust
- Develop and maintain portfolio-level dashboards that provide visibility into delivery health, capacity, and backlog across initiatives
Our take
Cowboy boots are timeless - an icon of American fashion that has endured through the ages. But Tecovas aims to bring them into the 21st Century with an online retail model that doesn’t skimp on quality.
Its boots are traditionally made at a veteran boot factory in Léon, Mexico, with over 200 steps in the process, but Tecovas’ straight-to-consumer model allows the company to bypass middle-party retailers and knock nearly $100 off the average price points of their boots.
It’s the first company to offer this sort of model for this product, and has upended a billion-dollar industry in doing so. Its initial success has helped it to open 13 physical stores in Texas, the state with the biggest market for cowboy boots. But over 70% of Tecovas’s sales come from other states, allowing the company to essentially create new markets where other brands that only operated in brick-and-mortar stores are unable to compete.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2022
$56m
SERIES C
Feb 2020
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $105.4m
Company benefits
- We offer insurance plans that pay 99% of your health premium coverage and 100% of your dental & vision insurance coverage for your family/dependents
- Paid Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO policy
- Corporate wellness program
- Generous employee discounts!
Company HQ
Bouldin Creek, Austin, TX
Leadership
Paul Hedrick
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Former Trader Assistant at Belvedere and Business Analyst at McKinsey.
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