Senior Program Manager, Fastly
$129.5-172.6k
Edge cloud platform
Job no longer available
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$129.5-172.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years proven experience in Program Management
- 5+ years of product development, GTM, or software engineering program experience and various methodologies including Agile practices
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and facilitation skills
- Experience working with distributed teams and remote working environments
- Demonstrated ability to lead team initiatives by influence
- Process and detail oriented, yet comfortable with ambiguity
- Effective analytical skills with a drive toward providing measurable data
- Strong sense of ownership with a willingness to go above and beyond to chase down loose ends that lead to successful delivery
- Focus on results and outcome, not just process
- Strong action bias, preference for execution and incremental improvements
- Comfortable with change, multi-tasking and managing priorities with outstanding organizational skills
- Self-motivated and proactive to maintain momentum and progress, and an ability to operate autonomously
- Collaborator who can execute whilst building positive relationships, proven capability in reducing organizational impedance, and possesses the appropriate levels of urgency
- Ability to integrate experiences and training to learn new technological paradigms
What the job involves
- Fastly is looking for a passionate Senior Program Manager to drive execution of critical product development and engineering efforts across our business
- This role will partner with leadership in Program Management, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, Sales, and others to develop plans and drive successful business outcomes
- The ideal candidate excels at understanding both the business objectives and technical execution of improving Fastly’s platform and delivering products that delight customers
- The role will be responsible for helping teams create plans, coordinate workstreams, deliver results, and keep management informed
- You’ll drive multiple programs simultaneously, build transparency within the organization, enable informed prioritization decisions using data, and identify potential issues
- You’ll be a leader at Fastly
- You will engage teams to enable our products, platform, and tools to be more powerful and more useful to our customers
- You’ll be essential to our success, relied upon by a wide array of individuals and teams
- The projects and programs you lead will give you a clear line of sight to the benefit delivered to Fastly’s customers, and our bottom line
- This is a role which has an impact on a large number of human lives
- We provide a supportive environment with friendly teams, where you can learn and develop
- We check our egos at the door
- You’ll make sure our customers benefit from services built to the highest standards in the industry
- We are a global, distributed team with the dedication and tools in place to make it work
- This position reports into our Director of Program Management
- Manage a portfolio of Product and Engineering-led programs through a full program lifecycle of definition through launch
- Work closely with cross-functional resources as primary point of contact representing the Product and Engineering teams
- Participate in regular planning, help teams remove blockers, handle dependencies, and drive resolution to prioritization decisions
- Work with teams during quarterly planning to ensure that mechanisms are built to accurately track and status deliverables during execution periods
- Ensure timely updates on OKRs and KPIs from teams including product adoption, delivery quality, and platform health
- Instill discipline and consistency within the Product and Engineering teams in terms of operational methodologies and documentation working with Director & Senior Director level resources
- Coordinate across teams often using varied project management techniques
- Lead special efforts as needed and support improvement of team processes
Application process
- Anticipated Posting Close Date: 8/5/25
- Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants
Our take
Internet users around the world have come to expect personalized, real-time digital experiences, but delivering these quickly and securely, while maintaining quality, can be a difficult task for businesses.
Fastly enables the companies to deliver fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Its edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer to end-users — improving the user experience, putting the power back in developers’ hands, and enabling clients to focus on growing their businesses.
The company has helped several high-profile businesses, including Reddit, Pinterest, Stripe, Epic Games, and more. Its offering is well-regarded in the space, demonstrated by it being named a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Global CDN, as well as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023 report.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2019
$40m
SERIES F
Jul 2018
$40m
SERIES F
Total funding: $259m
Company benefits
- Competitive PTO Policies
- Remote or Hybrid Work
- Generous time off for parental leave
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Mental health resources
- 401(k)/retirement plans
- Employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP)
- Reimbursements for learning and development programs
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Artur Bergman
(Chief Architect and Executive Chairperson)Served as the company's CEO until changing roles in 2020. Previously served as CTO at Wikia, and was a Board Member at OpenID Foundation
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