Experience: 3.00 + years
Salary: Confidential (based on experience)
Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)
Opportunity Type: Office ()
Placement Type: Full time Permanent Position
(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers client - Portkey)
What do you need for this opportunity
Must have skills required:
Program Management, Stakeholder Management
Portkey is Looking for:
Job Description:
Technical Program Manager (Founders Office)
About Portkey
Portkey is building the control plane for production AI - the infrastructure layer that enterprises rely on to route, observe, and scale AI traffic in real-world systems. We move fast, work closely with customers, and operate in high-ownership mode. This role sits at the center of that motion.
Why This Role Exists
- As Portkey scales:
- Engineering teams run in parallel across platform, product, and customer-driven initiatives
- Founders and senior engineers make high-impact commitments internally and externally
- Execution complexity increases faster than headcount
The Technical Program Manager (TPM) partners directly with founders to ensure engineering commitments turn into reliable delivery. This person creates clarity, drives follow-through, manages dependencies, and removes execution friction without becoming a bottleneck. This is a high-trust, high-expectation role with direct visibility into company priorities.
What Youll Do
- Founder & Leadership Partnership
- Work closely with founders on execution planning and priority setting
- Translate high-level goals and customer commitments into concrete, trackable programs
- Provide clear, concise execution updates to leadership highlighting risks, tradeoffs, and decisions needed
- Engineering Program Ownership
- Own delivery of cross-team engineering initiatives end-to-end
- Track milestones, timelines, and outcomes across multiple workstreams
- Proactively manage dependencies between teams, systems, and people
- Surface risks early and drive resolution to keep programs on track
- Commitment & Delivery Management
- Act as the single source of truth for engineering commitments
- Ensure commitments made to customers, product, or internal teams are clearly scoped and tracked
- Hold teams accountable to timelines while maintaining trust and momentum
- Stakeholder Management
- Partner effectively with engineering, product, customer success, sales, and leadership
- Align stakeholders with different incentives and timelines
- Drive decisions through structured discussions and crisp communication
- Execution Metrics & Rigor
- Maintain dependency maps, delivery dashboards, and execution metrics
- Continuously improve how Portkey plans, commits, and ships
- Balance speed with reliability - optimizing for outcomes, not process
What This Role Is Not
- Not a meeting scheduler
- Not a Jira admin
- Not a process enforcer
- Not a shield that hides problems
Instead, you:
- Make problems visible early
- Push for decisions when tradeoffs are needed
- Hold a high bar for clarity and follow-through
What Were Looking For
- Experience
- 3 5 years of experience as a Technical Program Manager, Engineering Program Manager, or similar role
- Proven experience working closely with software engineering teams
- Experience owning delivery of complex, cross-functional technical programs
- Skills & Traits
- Exceptional written and verbal communication clear, structured, and persuasive
- Strong stakeholder management skills; able to influence without authority
- Highly execution-oriented: you care deeply about things getting done
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast-changing environments
- Strong technical intuition (you dont need to code, but you understand systems and tradeoffs)
- Strong Fit If You:
- Thrive in early-stage or high-growth environments
- Enjoy working directly with founders and senior leaders
- Are calm under pressure and methodical in chaos
- Take ownership beyond your formal scope
What Success Looks Like
- Engineering commitments are consistently delivered on time or risks are flagged early
- Leadership has real-time clarity into execution health and dependencies
- Teams spend less time coordinating and more time building
- Stakeholders trust Portkeys timelines and follow-through
Why Join Portkey
- Early member with direct exposure to founders
- High-impact role shaping how engineering execution scales
- Significant ownership, autonomy, and trust
- Opportunity to grow into a senior roles as the company scales
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- Step 2: Complete the Screening Form & Upload updated Resume
- Step 3: Increase your chances to get shortlisted & meet the client for the Interview!
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