Staff Technical Program Manager at Robinhood

About the team:

Robinhood is looking for a Technical Program Manager to develop and drive high impact Risk, Fraud, and Financial Crimes programs across the company - partnering with infrastructure, product, operations, and risk and compliance teams to build platforms and services that enable best in class risk management and protection from bad actors.

The role will be centralized within our growing Technical Programs team, and will partner with the Risk, Fraud, and Financial Crimes engineering teams to help craft programs to support their overall strategy, establish effective communication processes, build strong collaboration with cross functional partners across the org, and ultimately drive execution towards the organization’s goals.

To be successful in this role, you will need to be able to be agile and adapt to the growing needs of the business, and have the ability to help build the sustainable practices that lead to a successful team.

Your day-to-day will involve:

• Hands on, end-to-end program management from design to delivery
• Help evangelize the engineering team's plans and overall strategy
• Provide visibility to the team's work and priorities through strong communication practices
• Establish lean processes to help the team operate more effectively, with a focus on productivity
• Engage with internal customers like backend and product engineering teams to ensure the alignment of needs and priorities with Risk, Fraud, and FinCrimes initiatives
• Work closely with the legal and regulatory arms of the company to ensure any compliance and legal requirements are captured accurately

About you:

• 5+ years of experience with managing engineering programs at scale
• Technical proficiency to understand and contribute to design and implementation decisions with engineering counterparts
• Comfort with navigating ambiguity and translating it to impactful results
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with both engineering and non-engineering audiences
• Ability to juggle multiple responsibilities and prioritize automation over manual process
• Experience working on large-scale distributed systems
• Have domain expertise in the integrity, anti-abuse, and fraud detection space and familiarity with tools like Actimize

Bonus points:

• Familiarity with Python, Django/Go, Postgres, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of machine learning and data science
• Experience in Finance and portfolio trading

We are excited to share that Robinhood is a primarily remote company! Our mission to democratize finance for all starts with our people, and that means bringing in and supporting Robinhoodies who can best help drive our mission forward — no matter where they’re based in the country. Read more here.

This job is following Robinhood’s Primarily Work from Anywhere model which means the Robinhoodie can work anywhere in the country of employment.

We’re looking for more growth-minded and collaborative people to be a part of our journey in democratizing finance for all. If you’re ready to give 100% in helping us achieve our mission—we’d love to have you apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Robinhood, we're looking for people invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

Robinhood promotes diversity and provides equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We are dedicated to building a company that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work (and work environment) will be for everyone. Additionally, Robinhood provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights. To review Robinhood's Privacy Policy please visit rbnhd.co/applicant-privacy.

Robinhood's benefits include generous time off, 401(k) participation with employer match, comprehensive health coverage, a health savings account (HSA), wellness benefits, backup childcare and education stipends (all benefits are subject to applicable taxes and based on eligibility).