--- title: 'Senior Technical Program Manager, Cross-Functional Programs at Rover.com' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-technical-program-manager-cross-functional-programs-rover-com-seattle-e633hwkkm1ek' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-22' --- # Senior Technical Program Manager, Cross-Functional Programs at Rover.com - **Company:** Rover.com - **Location:** Seattle, WA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-22 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/rover/1d42a62d-6bcc-4b3a-863b-eee2853065da ## Job description Who we are: At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we’re a values driven, fast-growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet. We’re investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. At Rover we’re committed to creating an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming community, which starts with our employees. Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us. ## Your Responsibilities - Take programs from shapeless to executable: converge stakeholders on what problem is actually being solved, set the scope and what's explicitly out of it, establish who owns which decisions, and define what success will be measured by. - Own the execution strategy from there: turning competing priorities into a coherent plan with owners and sequencing, and making the calls that determine how the work comes together across Rover. - Drive decisions rather than track them. Frame the trade-off, make a recommendation, get the right people in the room, and identify the decision maker when the path forward isn't obvious, then land the decision and hold it. - Be the point of alignment across organizational boundaries: keep priorities cohesive, surface where they conflict, and get teams to a shared path forward without waiting for an escalation to force it. - Be a true peer to engineering on the technical dimension of the program, covering architecture implications, dependency chains, data integrity, and rollout and cutover planning. Pressure-test timelines and sequencing before they slip. - Define and report the KPIs that tell teams whether a program is healthy, so risk surfaces early and progress is easy to communicate with confidence. - Be the source of truth for program health. Build and maintain the artifacts that keep a program legible — charters, plans, dependency maps, risk registers, decision logs — and communicate crisply in both registers: the detail engineering needs and the summary a leadership audience can act on. - Own launch and delivery readiness, making sure everyone from engineering leads to executive sponsors has what they need to move forward. Treat launch as a checkpoint rather than a finish line: the measurement that tells us whether the program delivered should outlast go-live. - Push AI tools further in how programs run: automating the reporting and tracking that doesn't need a human, and building the workflows and frameworks that help teams across the program move faster. - Ramp fast in unfamiliar domains: build the working relationships, learn enough of the system to ask the right questions, and earn credibility quickly when the teams are new to you. - Be the connective tissue across our Seattle and Barcelona teams, and contribute to Rover's TPM practice so each program runs better than the last. Your Qualifications: - 8+ years driving complex, cross-functional technical programs, ideally at a marketplace, consumer tech, or SaaS company. - A track record of owning high-complexity, ambiguous programs end to end across multiple domains and stakeholder groups, not a single specialty. You've taken programs from scoping and strategy through delivery and retrospective in domains you didn't start out knowing, including ones where your first deliverable was a scope that didn't exist before you got there. - A way of working through ambiguous situations rather than a tolerance for them: orienting quickly on incomplete or conflicting information, separating what's genuinely unknown from what simply hasn't been asked, and breaking a shapeless problem into parts people can start on before the full picture exists. - High agency in driving decisions rather than documenting them, and stellar stakeholder alignment across organizational lines, including with senior leadership. You can hold a room of partners with competing incentives, know when to make the recommendation yourself and when to find the person who owns the call, and leave with a shared plan. - Judgment under uncertainty, and the ability to explain it: when to force a decision and when to wait, when to escalate and when to absorb the risk yourself, when to hold the line on scope and when to let it move. You can point to calls you got right and calls you'd make differently now. - The technical acumen to be a true peer to engineering: reading a dependency chain, evaluating trade-offs without needing full translation, debating technical approaches, and finding where the real sequencing risk lives, where architectural patterns need to evolve, or where we're choosing one-way doors. - Strong core program management craft: standing up a plan and a status process, running a decision-making cadence, using metrics to surface risk early, show progress, and tell whether a program delivered after it shipped, and identifying what's missing in planning and execution before it costs the program. You're as comfortable speaking technically as non-technically, and can bridge between the two. - A habit of pushing AI tools further in your work: automating repetitive tasks like status reporting or risk tracking, building custom workflows, or creating frameworks that help teams move faster. - You won't check every box on this list, and that's okay. If most of it sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you. Nice to Have: - Depth in more than one technical domain, for example platform and infrastructure alongside consumer product, payments, or data. - Experience running programs across a globally distributed organization, where the teams you depend on sit in different time zones and decisions can't wait for everyone to be awake. ## Benefits of Working at Rover.com - Competitive compensation - 401k match - Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout - Flexible PTO - Competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance - Commuter benefits - Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time) - Pet benefits, including $1000 toward adopting your first dog or cat - Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs) and free catered lunches monthly - Regular team activities performed in-person and virtually Compensation: - In the greater Seattle area the first-year salary range is $153,430 - $181,715. Additionally, Rover offers benefits to full-time employees. - The cash compensation offered for this role will be dependent on the candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and abilities as demonstrated in the interview and hiring process. At Rover, we’re driven by seeing our people succeed and grow, while doing our jobs better than ever before. We believe the best business outcomes come from a diverse set of perspectives and we’re committed to promoting an inclusive, inventive, and fun environment with amazing employees. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. Rover is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, military or veteran status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, genetic predisposition, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We are committed to work with you to look for reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. ## About Rover.com ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Rover.com operates a global marketplace connecting pet parents with trusted pet sitters, dog walkers, groomers, and trainers. - **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Blackstone Inc. in 2024; previously public under ticker ROVR) - **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States (with offices in Barcelona, London, and remote hubs) - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Greg Gottesman, Aaron Easterly, Philip Kimmey ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Pet care services marketplace - **Target customers**: B2C – pet parents (owners of dogs and cats) seeking boarding, walking, daycare, sitting, training, and grooming - **Mission**: To make it easier for people to experience the unconditional love of a pet by providing trusted, high-quality pet care ## Products & Services - **Rover Marketplace (Platform)**: Online and mobile marketplace for booking pet sitters, dog walkers, pet boarding, doggy daycare, drop-in visits, house sitting, dog training, and grooming. Features include in-app messaging, photo sharing, reviews, background checks, and the Rover Guarantee/accident cover. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by Blackstone in 2024; prior public market cap varied) - **Key Metric**: $174 million annual revenue (latest available); total funding of $2.9 billion across 13 rounds prior to acquisition - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Blackstone Inc. (owner), Greylock, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, T. Rowe Price - **Growth Signals**: Expanded to 18 countries across North America and Western Europe; over 12 million pets cared for; 41 million services booked (cumulative); 4.9/5 average sitter rating; workforce of 7,301 employees across 29 countries ## Competitive Advantages - **First-to-market pet care marketplace** – first major platform of its kind, with strong brand recognition and scale. - **Trust & Safety infrastructure** – background checks or ID verification for sitters, verified reviews, Meet & Greets, and the Rover Guarantee/accident cover. - **Large, engaged supply side** – thousands of independent pet sitters and walkers, enabling broad geographic coverage. - **Loyalty and repeat usage** – high average sitter rating (4.9/5) drives trust and retention. ## Strategic Focus - **International expansion** – growing presence in Europe (e.g., Spain, UK, France) and ongoing market penetration. - **Product innovation** – expanding service types (dog training, grooming) and enhancing the platform with AI-powered matching and safety tools. - **Building a premium experience** – high-quality, personalized care offerings and deepened pet parent/sitter relationships. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Dog-friendly offices, inclusive environment with five Employee Resource Groups (Gender Equity in Action, Pride, Rover Military Community, BARKS for BIPOC, MIND for neurodiversity). Company values ownership, transparency, and work-life balance. - **Work model**: Hybrid – offices in Seattle and Barcelona, plus remote roles across the US and Europe. Engineering roles often based in Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, London. - **Perks**: $1,000 adoption/foster assistance, pet staycation coverage, stocked offices, company lunches, competitive benefits (medical/dental/vision, 401k match, 4 weeks+ PTO, 11 paid holidays, 10 weeks fully paid parental leave). Barcelona office offers meal vouchers, wellness reimbursement, and 25 days PTO. - **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on data and software engineering across multiple levels; involvement in platform reliability, backend platform, and data infrastructure. ## Sources 1. [rover.com/careers](https://www.rover.com/careers) 2. [jobs.lever.co/rover](https://jobs.lever.co/rover) 3. [rover.com/about-us](https://www.rover.com/about-us) 4. [linkedin.com/company/roverdotcom](https://linkedin.com/company/roverdotcom) 5. 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