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IT Technical Program Manager

Asana · San Francisco · On-site

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About Asana

Work management software for teams and AI agents. Plan, automate, and execute critical workflows together. Backed by a16z and Founders Fund.

About the role

IT systems, expertise, and experience are central to Asana's mission of helping teams work together effortlessly. As an IT Technical Program Manager, you'll be a force multiplier across IT and Asana's cross-functional business partners. You will drive outcomes, programs, and operational rhythms that make IT highly effective and visible outside its own walls.

What they're looking for

  • 6+ years of program management experience, with meaningful time working in or alongside IT organizations
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams through complex, ambiguous, multi-stakeholder work with only high-level direction. You are comfortable creating structure rather than waiting for it
  • Strong grasp of business drivers, with the judgment to align processes to impact, design workable solutions, and implement improvements rather than defaulting to how it's always been done
  • Comfortable operating with high autonomy across multiple concurrent workstreams, stakeholders, and timelines
  • Excellent written and verbal communication. You enjoy distilling complex or ambiguous issues into actionable plans and can communicate clearly up, down, and across
  • Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making
More about this role

IT systems, expertise, and experience are central to Asana's mission of helping teams work together effortlessly. As an IT Technical Program Manager, you'll be a force multiplier across IT and Asana's cross-functional business partners. You will drive outcomes, programs, and operational rhythms that make IT highly effective and visible outside its own walls. IT TPM work is rarely IT-only: you'll be leading projects, programs, and processes that reach into Security, Product, Workplace, PeopleOps, Legal, and other business lines as a matter of course, not exception.

You'll join the team as a TPM, reporting to the IT TPM function lead, and take ownership of a dynamic portfolio of IT programs and projects. This is a high-autonomy role for someone who wants real ownership early: you'll be trusted to run point on your portfolio while helping shape how the broader IT TPM function operates.

This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you...

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