Technical Program Manager - Partnerships and Integrations

Who we are

At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.

Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we’re a values driven, fast-growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet. We’re investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community.

We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. At Rover we’re committed to creating an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming community, which starts with our employees.

Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us.

Your Responsibilities

• Own the implementation and execution strategy for one or more branded or data integration programs — reconciling ambiguity, turning vision and priorities into a coherent plan, and making the sequencing calls that determine how the work comes together across Rover
• Drive that plan through to delivery and acceptance — across technical migration, product alignment, operational readiness, and go-live — keeping the program moving from first scope to final cutover, ensuring intended outcomes are realized.

Be the point of alignment across engineering, product, and business: keeping priorities cohesive, surfacing where they conflict, and getting teams to a shared path forward.

• Lead the technical integration alongside engineering: API dependencies, data integrity, identity and authentication, and cutover planning — sequencing the work and pressure-testing timelines before they slip.
• Build and maintain the artifacts that keep a program legible: charters, project plans, dependency maps, risk registers, and executive-facing status communications.
• Define and report the KPIs that tell teams whether a program is healthy — so risk surfaces early and progress is easy to communicate with confidence.
• Own go-live readiness, making sure everyone from engineering leads to executive sponsors has the information and confidence to move forward, and escalate with clarity and context when something's at risk.
• Be the connective tissue between our Barcelona and Seattle teams, and contribute to Rover's integration playbook so each program runs better than the last.

Your Qualifications

• 8+ years driving complex, cross-functional technical programs, ideally at a marketplace, consumer tech, or SaaS company.
• A track record of owning high-complexity, ambiguous programs end to end - scoping and implementation strategy through delivery and retrospective - and defining a path forward when one doesn't yet exist.
• Experience leading system integrations and technical migrations: API dependencies, data integrity, identity and authentication, and cutover planning, with the technical depth to assess risk and sequence work as a peer to engineering.
• The judgement to know where to push for expediency - whether that means making a recommendation, driving alignment, or identifying the appropriate decision maker.
• The technical acumen to read a dependency chain, ask engineering the right questions, and find where the real sequencing risk lives, architectural patterns need evolution, or where we’re choosing one-way doors.
• Experience defining and delivering market-specific features with product and engineering — including driving the call on what belongs in a shared platform versus a single brand to a clear decision.
• Strong program management instincts: you can stand up a plan and a status process, communicate to technical and non-technical audiences alike, and keep things on track without bureaucracy getting in the way.
• A data-driven approach to measuring success, using metrics to track progress, surface risk, and inform decisions throughout a program's life.
• A habit of pushing AI tools further in your work: automating repetitive tasks like status reporting or risk tracking, building custom workflows, or creating frameworks that help teams move faster.

You won't check every box on this list, and that's okay — if most of it sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on post-acquisition or post-merger integration experience.
• Familiarity with marketplace or multi-brand platform architectures, and the platform-versus-brand trade-offs that come with them.
• A track record of contributing to how the TPM discipline works, not just executing within it — improving process, cadence, and craft as you go.
• Experience working across European and US teams in a globally distributed organization.

Benefits of Working at Rover.com

• Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout
• Pension plan
• Private medical insurance
• 25 days PTO
• Meal allowance and flexible compensation plan (transport and nursery)
• Gym membership
• €450 to cover the costs associated with the adoption of a pet
• Annual €150 wellness reimbursement
• Flexible work hours, sometimes you'll need to be in at certain times, but on the whole, we're pretty flexible when it comes to managing workload and time
• Grab snacks, fresh fruit, in our kitchen to keep yourself going
• Regular team activities, events, game nights, and more
• Dog-friendly office