Director of Technical Program Management, Life360
$206.5-304k
+ Equity
Location sharing app for families
Open for applications
Location sharing app for families
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$206.5-304k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify safety, so families can live fully.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university or equivalent experience. Technical degree preferred
- 10+ years in technical program management or related roles
- 5+ years of experience managing a team or a department of technical program managers
- Experience delivering mobile applications and/or consumer hardware
- Superior communications skills: interpersonal, written, and presentation
- Superior organizational skills: note-taking, formal documentation, and task assignment
- Proven ability to understand and breakdown complex, multifaceted programs and projects into manageable pieces, organize cross-functionally and drive execution
- Comfortable with ambiguity and starting from "scratch"
- Experience with program management tools
- Experience working as part of a team, using analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and follow industry trends
- Ability to work effectively and collaboratively within a growing department and cross-functionally with members at all levels of the organization
What the job involves
- Life360 is looking for an experienced leader to head up our Technical Program Management team
- Reporting to the CTO, this role will be responsible for ensuring all of our major programs across the company meet their objectives while holding teams accountable for their delivery
- You and your team will be the primary drivers of defining and evolving our SDLC and internal processes to optimize how work gets done
- You will work with cross-functional partners across the organization and will be responsible for presenting updates to executive leadership
- You will manage our team of Technical Program Managers growing their careers and setting expectations for how they engage with teams across the business
- Strategic Thinking:
- Ability to translate organizational goals into actionable roadmaps
- Functional Management:
- Strong analytical skills to evaluate program success and adapt plans as needed
- Stakeholder Management:
- Experience working with product managers, engineers, designers, and leadership
- Skilled in aligning competing priorities and negotiating trade-offs while holding teams accountable
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Adept at working across engineering, product, marketing, and business functions
- Capable of building partnerships and fostering trust among teams
- Problem Solving:
- Proficiency in identifying bottlenecks, troubleshooting issues, and delivering resolutions
- Strong decision-making under uncertainty and pressure
- Customer Focus:
- Ability to keep user needs central to program decisions and outcomes
- Experience ensuring program delivery aligns with business and customer value
Our take
Life360 is a platform for families that aims to bring them closer together by helping them better sync, communicate, and stay safe.
The business is particularly focused on enabling family members and friends to share their locations with one another. In addition, Life360 offers group messaging services, and also makes it possible for users to call for roadside assistance. The platform is focused on ensuring that both family members and friends can enhance their safety and connections with one another.
Customer service advisors are available on a real-time basis, while the developers of the app have also enhanced its privacy and security features recently. After an IPO in 2019, the company has received numerous awards and is recognized as a pioneer in its field, even piloting a new driving safety feature.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
34% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (4.1)
Trustpilot (2.5)
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Life360 has a culture of generating hypothesises, running tests, analysing the results and iterating. This has given me so much opportunity to learn..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2018
$28m
SERIES D
Dec 2017
$18.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $117.3m
Company values
- Be a Good Person - We have a team of high integrity people you can trust that doesn’t tolerate jerks (even if they’re brilliant).
- Be Direct With Respect - We have a culture of radical candor that prevents company politics, passive aggressiveness, or being overly nice at the expense of performance and feedback.
- Members Over Metrics - We have a company that is known for an amazing customer experience and a culture of product excellence.
- High Intensity High Impact - We have a team of passionate, driven, ambitious people who work hard and are always challenging us to do better.
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Articles
Leadership
Chris Hulls
(CEO)Joined US Air Force aged 17. Attended UC Berkeley. Founded Life360 in 2008.
Alex Haro
(Board Member)Co-founded with Chris Hulls in 2008 - CTO until 2019. Founded mymoneykarma in January 2020.
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