Chipper is the largest mobile cross-border money transfer platform in Africa. We are a small passionate team, dedicated to expanding financial inclusion in some of the global regions most in need of accessible, interoperable, easy-to-use, and affordable financial services.
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As Director of Technical Program Management at Chipper, you will lead a team of TPMs who manage complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects.
The successful candidate will be someone who loves enabling teams to solve complex technical and business problems, is a leader and mentor to TPMs and other managers, has the attention to detail to deliver outstanding experiences for our customers, works collaboratively across a global organization, and thrives in a high-growth and fully distributed organization.
What You’ll Do
Lead and grow a distributed team of between 3 and 4 TPMs.
Develop your team through coaching, mentorship and performance management.
Drive and shape the direction of the TPM function at Chipper as we navigate and evolve through high-growth.
Maintain our core values and ensure that decisions and processes are aligned with our culture and core beliefs. This includes fostering a team culture that is both diverse and inclusive.
Develop strategies to support operational efficiency and ensure responsible prioritization and resource alignment that enables successful program delivery.
Contribute expertise to project and process development and best practices.
Maintain compliance with our security and regulatory policies.
Provide visibility to program status (issues, risks, metrics, etc.) on an ongoing basis.
We’d Like to Hear from You if You
Have significant experience (5+ years) leading high impact technical programs and have a demonstrated ability to see complex projects to successful completion.
Have experience managing and building a team of technical program managers, preferably for organizations with a distributed workforce.
Have significant experience with developing, presenting and implementing project roadmaps to executives and stakeholders.
Experience operating collaboratively with engineering and business leadership and are comfortable communicating technical concepts for both audiences.
Have proven success in leading projects in a growing organization where change is an expected part of our growth trajectory.
Outstanding relationship building skills conducive to driving consent when consensus is not possible.
Superior analytical skills, capable of making data driven decisions and recommendations.