Technical Program Manager

Bestow is a leading insurance technology platform serving some of the world's largest and most innovative life insurers. We are on a mission to increase financial stability for everyone. Bestow is a team of mission-driven, results-oriented individuals. We offer all employees a remote (contiguous 48 only)/hybrid workplace, meaningful benefits, substantial growth opportunities, and equity.

Bestow participates in the E-Verify Program.

The engineering team is responsible for all technology for Bestow and the Bestow Platform. We serve employees, consumers, and enterprise customers. In addition to building software, we integrate and manage many third-party products used by employees and as part of the platform. Our major functional teams are product engineering, infrastructure, IT, data and analytics, martech, and program management. Engineering works closely with product management and design to define and prioritize the product roadmap.

This role reports to our Manager, Technical Program Management and is open to Remote (US) #LI-Remote.

Bestow is looking for a Technical Program Manager to contribute in the following ways:

• You seek to understand the details, you have a strong sense of ownership and urgency, and you are a natural at providing clear project updates in writing and meetings for all types of audiences.

• You are an organized thinker who loves a good plan and creates organized artifacts to make project management easier for yourself and your stakeholders.

• You encourage technical discussions to foster teamwork and gain insights into project risk and scope.

• You can discuss critical technical issues and decisions and guide project teams through decisions on tradeoffs and timelines.

• 3+ years of technical project management experience in software development

• Experience facilitating the breakdown of technical and non-technical work into manageable tasks and deliverables

• Experience leading large-scale company initiatives with multiple working teams

• Experience with client-facing SaaS platform implementations

• Ability to handle escalations with a high sense of urgency and ownership

• Ability to implement processes and lead change

• Ability to maintain an objective perspective to balance the often opposing needs of Product, Engineering, and stakeholders

• You excel working in an independent work culture.

• You want to bring your voice and experience to a mission-driven company in ways that help it expand.

• Excellent communicator across all channels (interpersonal, written, and verbal)

• You are a systems thinker who enjoys finding innovative ways to work.

• Experience using Jira is a strong plus.

At Bestow, we’re proud to be awarded for our team members, innovative products, and culture. Our standard benefits include:

• Competitive salary and equity based on role

• Policies and managers that support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave programs 

• 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing

• Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote

• Remote and WFH options, as well as a beautiful, state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum, for those who prefer an office setting

• Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives

We're proud to be recognized as a top employer, consistently earning accolades for our exceptional workplace culture and commitment to our employees.

• We've been recognized year after year by Great Place to Work, Built In Best Places to Work, and Fortune's Best Workplaces in Texas (2022-2025).

• We've been named one of Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance (2022-2024), a CNBC and Statista World's Top Insurtech Company (2024), and one of The Financial Technology Report's Top Insurtech Companies (2024-2025).

• We're honored to be recognized as a Best Place for Working Parents for three consecutive years (2023-2025).

We value diversity at Bestow. The company will recruit, hire, and promote regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every team member. 

Thanks for considering a career at Bestow!

Compensation Range: $110K - $135K