Technical Program Manager
Marqeta is a card-issuing and payment-processing technology company. Its platform helps fintechs, financial institutions, and technology companies build and manage debit, credit, prepaid, and virtual card programs.
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About Marqeta, Inc.
Marqeta provides a modern, API-driven card issuing platform for embedded payment and financial-service experiences. It offers card issuing and processing, virtual cards, Just-in-Time funding, dynamic spend controls, PCI-compliant widgets, fraud and risk tools, tokenization, data insights, and program management. Its customers use the platform for consumer and commercial payments, digital banking, credit, supplier payments, expense management, and commercial banking solutions.
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About the Role
You will lead technical workstreams and initiatives from concept to completion, coordinating engineering, product, design, and business teams. You will manage scope, schedules, resources, risks, dependencies, and technical tradeoffs while facilitating planning, documenting decisions, updating leadership, and removing obstacles for engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 3+ years of technical program or project management experience
- Understanding of relevant technologies, software development methodologies, and S-SDLC processes
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies and development practices
- Ability to understand complex technical systems and explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- PMP, Scrum Master, or other relevant certification
- Experience with project management tools such as Jira or Asana
- Data analysis and visualization skills
- Experience in electronic payments and accounting systems
Responsibilities
- Drive technical projects from concept to completion
- Manage project scope, schedules, and resources
- Identify dependencies, risks, and issues
- Develop mitigation strategies
- Facilitate communication between engineering, product, design, and business teams
- Lead technical planning, estimation, and prioritization sessions
- Document technical decisions
- Provide regular status updates to leadership
- Remove obstacles for engineering teams
- Balance technical tradeoffs with business requirements and timelines
Benefits
- Premium private medical and dental coverage
- Generous time off program
- Floating holiday days
- Retirement savings program with company contribution
- Equity in a publicly-traded company
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Monthly remote work stipend
- Annual development stipend
- Family-forming benefits
- Up to 20 weeks of parental leave
- Wellbeing programs