Staff Technical Program Manager

About the Role:

Redpanda is looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to help drive the execution, delivery, and release of Redpanda’s products, with a focus on the Agentic Data Plane (ADP). Redpanda’s Agentic Data Plane is the control and execution layer that powers how AI agents safely interact with real-world data across the technological sprawl of the modern enterprise. In this role, you will not only lead complex, cross-team technical programs for ADP, but also drive and strengthen the end-to-end release process across Redpanda’s entire product portfolio, ensuring that we ship high-quality, predictable releases as our platform and organization scale.

Redpanda’s Agentic Data Plane enables intelligent agents to autonomously access, reason over, and act on enterprise data in real time, while providing their human counterparts with the visibility and control to ensure and validate that they do so securely. ADP combines Redpanda’s industry-leading low-latency streaming layer, a distributed query engine for real-time context, 300+ connectors for seamless data integration, and a global policy and observability framework that enforces access, records intent, and enables replayable audits.

In this role, you will act as a force multiplier for Product and Engineering leadership, as well as our GTM teams. This involves translating strategy into execution, fostering strong collaboration across teams, managing dependencies and risk, and ensuring Redpanda consistently delivers value to our customers.

You Will:

• Drive execution of Redpanda’s most complex, cross-team initiatives, with primary on the Agentic Data Plane (ADP)
• Lead end-to-end delivery and release execution across Redpanda’s product portfolio, ensuring consistent, high-quality, and predictable releases
• Manage program plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs across multiple engineering teams and workstreams
• Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering and GTM leadership to translate product strategy and technical direction into executable plans
• Drive cross-functional coordination across Engineering, Product, QE, Security, Customer Success, Support, and GTM to ensure delivery and release readiness
• Proactively identify and resolve execution risks, technical dependencies, and delivery blockers in a highly distributed systems environment, and maintain clear program and release visibility to stakeholders
• Own and continuously improve release processes and operational best practices as Redpanda’s platform and organization scale
• Support customer-facing commitments and launches, aligning delivery timelines with business and GTM priorities
• Lead retrospectives and drive continuous improvement in program management, release execution, and cross-team collaboration

You Have:

• Strong technical foundation in distributed systems, data infrastructure, and/or AI/ML platforms, with the ability to reason about architecture and engineering trade-offs
• Proven experience managing large, multi-team programs spanning multiple layers of infrastructure, including dependency management, risk mitigation, and execution tracking
• Demonstrated ownership of release management or large-scale delivery processes across multiple products or teams
• Ability to align diverse stakeholders, manage ambiguity, and drive execution in fast-moving, high-growth environments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate status, risks, and trade-offs, including the ability to adapt communication to targeted audiences from diverse teams and roles (individual contributors to executives)
• An ability to empathize with your fellow employees, designing and negotiating policies and procedures that enable needed business outcomes while minimizing friction and overhead
• Comfortable working in a 100% distributed / remote environment, collaborating via GitHub/JIRA, Slack, Google Docs, and modern productivity tools

Nice to Have:

• Background in security, policy, and governance systems relevant to enterprise data or AI usage.
• Prior experience scaling release processes in fast-growing or multi-product organizations.
  
  

U.S. base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $235,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $190,000 - $224,500 (other US locations).Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary. Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that Redpanda uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to assist in the screening and assessment of applications for this position. However, all final hiring decisions are made by our human hiring team.

Vacancy Status: This job posting is for an existing vacancy.