Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, International Expansion

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the international launch program, overseeing everything from initial assessment to go-live and stabilization.

• Define the scope, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria for each market.

• Convert licensing, geolocation, data residency, privacy, KYC/AML, responsible gaming, and audit/reporting regulations into technical specifications.

• Create a standardized expansion playbook featuring reusable architecture patterns, configuration-driven market setups, and launch readiness checklists.

• Oversee technical delivery alongside vendors for payment, identity verification, geolocation, content/data feeds, and local hosting.

• Collaborate with Core Engineering on multi-region infrastructure, supporting multiple currencies and languages, as well as regional payments, tax, and reporting.

• Establish criteria for go-live, formulate cutover plans, and conduct hypercare and post-launch evaluations.

• Engage senior stakeholders, providing updates on status, risks, trade-offs, and decisions to executives.

• Define and communicate expansion KPIs, including time-to-market, launch readiness, compliance findings, and post-launch stability.

• Mentor other Technical Program Managers (TPMs) to enhance planning, delivery, and governance practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in technical program management, including leading extensive, cross-functional programs at a senior or staff level.

• 12+ years of direct collaboration with software engineering teams on complex, distributed systems.

• Proven success in launching products or platforms across various international markets, preferably within regulated sectors.

• Experience in translating regulatory and compliance requirements into actionable technical delivery plans.

• Skilled in managing external vendors and third-party technical integrations.

• Strong technical expertise in cloud platforms, distributed/microservice architectures, and enterprise software.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of influencing executives and clarifying complex technical and regulatory matters to non-technical audiences.

• Experience managing programs utilizing tools like Jira and Confluence across various SDLC methodologies.

• Willingness to travel, including internationally.

• Preferred: experience in sports betting, iGaming, fintech, payments, or other highly regulated, high-availability industries.

• Preferred: familiarity with international gaming or financial regulators and licensing processes.

• Preferred: experience with data residency, multi-region deployment, and privacy frameworks such as GDPR.

• Preferred: familiarity with regional payment methods, multi-currency, tax, and large-scale localization.

• Preferred: experience in organizations with multiple profit and loss statements and shared platform services.

• Preferred: experience managing launch readiness, cutover, and hypercare for high-traffic systems.

• Preferred: experience working in a scaled Agile environment.

• Proficiency in a second language is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Base salary and bonus.

• Comprehensive full-time employment benefits.

• Detailed benefits information can be found at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/.

• Opportunities for international travel for market launches, partner meetings, and team events.