Founding Technical Program Manager

About the Role

We’re hiring the first Technical Program Manager to join a newly formed Technical Program Management function, reporting to the Head of TPM. This is a founding role, you’ll help design and build how strategic, cross-functional work gets delivered across a global organization. TPMs at Supabase own the connective tissue between teams and between functions, managing the dependencies of our largest programs, and author and maintain/improve the standard of using Linear. This role is a strong fit for someone who has a genuine curiosity about ambiguous, complex problems, is self-directed and has conviction in their craft.

What You'll Be Responsible for

• Partner with Engineering, Product, Design (EPD) and other stakeholder to structure and drive complex, cross-team initiatives; clarifying scope and value, securing commitment across a distributed organization, setting timelines, and leading activities from design through launch.
• Design systems by building the tracking, reporting, and escalation mechanisms that surface risk and progress.
• Build process to ensure launch readiness is predictable, consistent and coordinated across all cross-functional participants.
• Ask the questions that clarify priority and scope, giving async teams the context to keep building and unblocking.
• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders and maintain transparency into program goals, commitments, risk and delivery quality, primarily through clear written communication.
• Identify bottlenecks before they become blockers, develop options to resolve them, and clearly communi

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