Senior Technical Product & Program Manager, Platform Engineering

Betterment

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$125,000–$145,000 / yr
Posted
23 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $182k
This role $135k
$110k most similar roles pay here $248k

This role pays less than 94% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$213,375 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $135k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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About Betterment

Betterment is an automated investment service (robo-advisor) that uses technology to provide personalized investment management, retirement planning, and savings optimization at low cost for retail investors. Industry: Financial Technology & Wealth Management

Betterment currently has 9 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $155,000–$175,000 across 9 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Technical Product & Program Manager, Platform Engineering

Sr. Technical Product & Program Manager, Platform Engineering joins the Platform Engineering team to empower engineers to ship high-quality code sustainably and efficiently. This role involves partnering with leadership to define, prioritize, and manage roadmaps for platform capabilities including SRE infrastructure enablement, developer experience, security, and API and authentication platforms. You will lead complex, cross-team initiatives by framing problems, aligning stakeholders, and tracking progress against outcomes like reliability, security posture, and delivery efficiency. The role requires technical depth in backend architecture, infrastructure, and developer tooling to navigate trade-offs between immediate delivery and long-term platform health. You will translate ambiguous technical challenges into clear milestones while coordinating migrations, standards, and shared services. Success depends on your ability to communicate complex technical decisions to both engineers and executives while ensuring platform capabilities are well-documented and usable for product teams.

What you'll do

  • Partner with engineering leaders to define and prioritize platform roadmaps based on organizational needs.
  • Translate technical pain points into clear priorities, sequenced investments, and actionable project plans.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives involving SRE, security, developer experience, and API infrastructure.
  • Manage the end-to-end execution of complex programs by identifying risks and tracking progress against goals.
  • Facilitate trade-off discussions to manage capacity and prioritize high-impact platform capabilities.
  • Ensure platform tools are well-documented, usable, and adopted effectively by product engineering teams.
  • Define and track success metrics for reliability, security, developer experience, and operational efficiency.
  • Create concise decision documents and status updates for leadership to drive informed organizational choices.

What we're looking for

  • Experience shaping and executing roadmaps for backend platforms, infrastructure, developer tooling, SRE, security, APIs, or authentication.
  • Experience leading complex, cross-team programs requiring influence and partnership rather than direct authority.
  • Technical depth to collaborate with senior engineers on backend architecture, operational tradeoffs, reliability, and security.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous technical problems into clear decisions, priorities, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
  • Experience balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health, including standards, migrations, and operational readiness.
  • Strong judgment for prioritizing shared platform investments among competing team needs.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills to explain technical tradeoffs to both engineers and executives.
  • Ability to make data-informed decisions using metrics related to reliability, security, adoption, and developer experience.

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