Director of Technical Program Management (Remote) at Chipper Cash

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.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Director of Technical Program Management

Location: Nigeria (Remote)

Job Description

• 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.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.