Location: Onsite, Sunnyvale, California (5 days a week in the office)

Onwards Together!

Illumio, the pioneer and market leader of Zero Trust segmentation, prevents breaches from becoming cyber disasters. Illumio protects critical applications and valuable digital assets with proven segmentation technology purpose-built for the Zero Trust security model. Illumio ransomware mitigation and segmentation solutions see risk, isolate attacks, and secure data across cloud-native apps, hybrid and multi-clouds, data centers, and endpoints, enabling the world’s leading organizations to strengthen their cyber resiliency and reduce risk.  

Illuminate the future with Illumio and join a team that’s passionate about developing cutting-edge security solutions that protect the world's most critical assets. 

Our Team's Vision:

Our Engineering team is driven by a culture that thrives on visionary leadership, autonomy, and ownership, creating a dynamic synergy that drives us forward in the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity. 

When you join our team, you become part of the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation. You'll work with a cutting-edge technology stack that spans operating systems, distributed applications, and immersive UI/visualization tools.  

We're shaping the future of cybersecurity. And together, we will continue to build world-class products—led by people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and a commitment to innovation in a time when the world faces its greatest cybersecurity threats in history. 

Your Impact: 

The Director of Program Management is responsible for leading and scaling our technical program management function within a fast-paced product organization.  This role is critical in driving the fast execution of high-quality product initiatives while ensuring alignment across teams. The ideal candidate will be a strategic leader with a deep understanding of technical program management, execution excellence, and cross-functional collaboration.

 Some of the tasks owned by the Director, Technical Program Management include: 

• Owning and developing strategies for the teams’ priorities 

• Overseeing the execution of key product initiatives, ensuring speed, efficiency, and quality.

• Leading, mentoring, and scaling a team of Technical Program Managers (TPMs), fostering a high-performance culture.

• Facilitating goal setting for teams and individual contributors 

• Developing business processes 

• Analyzing data 

• Create structure for the team to solve business problems 

• Maintain a culture of trust, accountability and commitment to goal delivery 

• The role builds a foundation of excellence through metrics, infrastructure, business processes, best practices, budgeting, and reporting. 

• Partner with Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams to align on priorities and drive outcomes.

• Identify and resolve program risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies to keep projects on track.

Your Toolkit:

• 7+ years of experience in an operational, management, or services delivery role   

• Strong operational background and track record of making data driven decisions 

• Enable structure and process that drive revenue growth 

• Proven experience leading technical programs in a fast-moving product organization.

• Ability to navigate complex, cross-functional environments and drive results

• Ability to quickly drill down to solve problems and take ownership of the resolution;

• Proven ability to organize technical teams 

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically 

• Strong Leadership and team-building skills 

• Critical thinker with creative, innovative, and analytical problem-solving skills 

• Excellent project management skills and ability to work to deadlines successfully managing multiple business-driven initiatives 

• Deep knowledge of agile methodologies, program management frameworks, and execution best practices

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

Why Join Us?

Be part of a dynamic company where your leadership will directly impact product success and shape the future of our technical program management function.

 

Compensation:

$233,000 USD - $280,000 USD

The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, location, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and internal equity, alignment with market data, or applicable laws. 

At Illumio we offer a wide range of benefits to our eligible team members. Our benefit programs vary by location and can include Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage – Health and Dependent Savings Accounts – Life and Disability Programs – Paid Parental Leave – Voluntary Benefit Programs – Company Sponsored Wellness Program – Wellness Reimbursement Program - Retirement Savings – Equity Opportunities – Paid time off and Paid Holidays – Employee Incentive Program. #LI-KD1 #LI-ONSITE

Our Commitment: 

Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions drives our success and makes us stronger together. We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a diverse culture and emphasizing inclusion and belonging.