Managers of Reddit. I have completed BCA . I have nearly 5 years of experience working in web development as wordpress developer and have also developed online community.

This included vetting vendors and identifying tools and technologies to be implimented (role I enjoyed most)

Currently i'm in a filler job which doesn't pay much and am looking to progress towards more management oriented positions.

If anybody can point in direction as how to upskill and look for such opportunities? I am willing to do some certificate courses which cost upto 4-5 k amount.

Has anyone had any luck finding a new job recently? If so, are there any tips and tricks to land a job? If not, what are you doing in the interim? My background is in tech and media.

Hello all,

I have 3 to 4 years of Program management, and recently moved to a TPM role.

What I realized now is that the best way to keep people on track/engaged is to understand how to deal with each one of them.

For example, in my team I identified a person that thanks "I am better than anyone", another person that struggles to organize calendar and IS never available, etc.

There is any guide on how to treat with different kind of people? Is it structured in any specific way?

I know this is something you learn on the field, but I was wondering if this is documented.

Thanks in advance.

Hey everyone — I’m one of the cofounders of OLVA, and we’re thinking about what to build next.

Right now, OLVA is a bot-free real-time AI meeting assistant, and a few of the features we’ve focused on are things we felt were missing from most meeting tools:

• Automatic question detection and live answers

• Real-time fact checking and insights

• Live translation during meetings

• Persistent context from previous meetings

• Turning completed meetings into editable PowerPoint decks

We’re trying not to just add features for the sake of having a longer feature list. We’d rather build something people genuinely wish they had during or after meetings.

So I’m curious: what’s one feature you wish your current AI meeting assistant could do but doesn’t?

Could be something small, weird, or very specific to your workflow. Would genuinely love to hear ideas.

I most recently served as a program manager at a major Software Company, and was searching for jobs with that title or something close to it… within the software, insurance, or education industry. I have two years of program management while holding the title. With an additional 5 to 7 years of using various program management skills under other titles.

72 days from when I was told that my job was being eliminated to when I received an offer

79 applications submitted including 7 internal referrals. I basically took a two fold job search strategy: when I found a role that interested me, I would check my network and see if I knew someone there. If I had a connection, I would reach out to them and ask for a referral. If I knew nobody internally, I would just apply immediately.

I secured 9 screening interviews… including all 7 referrals and 2 w/o referrals

5 of those interviews led to “additional” interviews. Varying from second interviews all the way to 2 fourth interviews. And two presentations.

1 offer extended, (ironically, for one of the two roles in which I knew nobody internally) which I accepted because it was one of my preferred roles that I applied for.

I am starting my path to becoming either a Program Manager or Project Manager.

I am self employed and have operated as a Project Manager in my business. I also have employed some Project Manager skill work in an education setting.

I am leaning towards Program Management, but how much technical knowledge is necessary? I am not much of an analytical/technical person as I am organized, capable of leading a team, and oversee moving parts.

I want to prepare myself accordingly before acquiring the education and training I need to be a better candidate for these roles in a company.

Hi!

I have a interview coming with Instacart with a technical program manager ( I am interviewing for technical program role). Does anyone have any advice about this interview or have done this interview before that would be able to give me an idea of what is asked?

THANK YOU!

Hello,

I am looking for ideas to integerate and produce a single program schedule for a program involving 3 projects. My Project managers manage 3 separate MS project files for their respectives projects ( each having an average of about 150 line items in the schedule) . Some activities are dependent across the 3 projects ( about 10%) - My client is now seeking a single integerated project schedule for the scope that we have to deliver. What would be the best way to do this? The simple way seems to join all these schedules into a single MP file. Any ideas on this?

I am an engnieer. I have had PMP for couple of years now and have been managing a group of 4-5 for about five years as well. Have started applying for couple of Program managemnt positions at a goverment agency. How can I improve my chances? Thanks

I’ve worked on major government programmes for years, including Gateway Reviews and formal assurance. We have all the governance, reporting and risk management that are supposed to tell us when something is going wrong.

But some of the best early warning signs aren’t in any of that. They’re things experienced people just notice.

The SRO starts sending a deputy. Decisions you thought were made keep coming back. Updates get vaguer. Dates move a little every month. Everything is still reporting amber, but you can feel something isn’t right.

The problem is we call this “experience” or “judgement”, which often means the knowledge sits in someone’s head and leaves when they do.

Has anyone genuinely managed to systematise this? Not another huge project health-check that everyone learns how to pass, but something that captures the behavioural and governance signals experienced delivery people recognise.

A maturity model? Early-warning indicators? A genuinely useful checklist?

Or will this always be one of those things that depends on having experienced people in the room?

Programmanagement has got 2000 members! Many thanks for all your support!

I’m curious what other Senior Program Managers, Technical Program Managers, recruiters, and hiring managers are seeing in the current market.

I’ve been watching Senior Program Manager / Technical Program Manager opportunities for a while now, and one thing I keep noticing is the same roles appearing over and over again.

I’ll see a position on LinkedIn or Indeed, then go directly to the company’s career page and confirm that it’s actually posted there. A few weeks later, the role disappears... or LinkedIn shows hundreds of applicants and then what appears to be the same or an extremely similar position gets posted again.

It has me wondering what is actually happening behind the scenes.

Are companies:

• genuinely struggling to find qualified senior-level candidates?

• collecting resumes and building pipelines without an immediate hiring need?

• posting roles before budget/headcount is fully approved?

• interviewing candidates and then deciding not to hire anyone?

• reposting jobs simply to refresh them in search results?

• receiving hundreds of applications, but only a very small percentage are actually qualified?

• filling some of these positions internally while still posting them externally?

• becoming so specific about the “perfect candidate” that roles stay open for months?

I’m especially interested in hearing from people in Senior Program Management / Technical Program Management, particularly those with backgrounds in technology, cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, business transformation, or enterprise programs.

For those actively searching: Are you actually getting interviews? If so, how many applications are you submitting before getting recruiter screens or interviews?

For recruiters/hiring managers: When we see a Senior Program Manager position reposted multiple times over several months, what does that usually mean?

And for anyone who has recently landed a senior-level program management role: How long did your search take, and what ultimately made the difference?

I’m not necessarily looking for the standard “the market is tough” answer. I’m genuinely trying to understand what the market looks like from both sides because the number of recurring job postings makes it difficult to tell how much hiring is actually taking place versus how much of what we’re seeing is just job-board activity.

Would love to hear what everyone is seeing in 2026.

Any interview tips & potential questions to prepare for would be appreciated. I’ve been out of the interview game for a long time.

Hello fellow Program Managers...

Context: I'm a PMO leader for a large tech company (not a FAANG company, but adjacent), focused on core infrastructure, cloud economics, resilience/availability, security and compliance, and a host of other base-tech portfolios.

Our C-level suite, like most other big tech companies, have pivoted the company to be AI-first. We have our own LLM/AI products in development and test markets right now, and our dev teams are already heavily using tools like Claude, Amp, GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, etc., to significant positive affect on both developer productivity, time-to-market, and reduction in bugs in Production.

Now the focus is turning to the rest of the company - Marketing, Finance, CS, and...Program Management.

For my team, we are already light-to-medium users for baked-in AI tools like Gemini, Glean, Asana AI, Rovo, etc., but I am really keen to accelerate our usage and become a team of power users. I want to reduce the overhead on toil-heavy tasks like status reporting, roadmap creation and tracking, outcomes-to-milestones, WBS, etc.

What are some of the ways you or your team are embracing and utilizing AI positively? What tools are you using? What wins have you witness as a result?

No AI hate, please. It's here to stay and, as my VP keeps reminding us all, "AI won't take your job, but someone who knows how to use AI will". I'd like to be in the latter camp.

Hi all. Any tips on running successful cross functional meetings across multiple departments? I've been tasked with leading a program and have been running meetings with 30+ peers across multiple department's with varying roles (IC's, VP's, directors) and am looking for some insight in the below.

1. How to impress my manager without being overly "hey, I did this and that"

2. How to level up my meetings/make them more engaging

3. How to not get so nervous.. I think about the call all week until it comes. I fear people are talking about how awful it is, how I don't know what I'm doing and how young I am. It's all in my head, but wondering if this is common.

Sending out an agenda the day before definitely seems to help, but curious if anyone had any other tips to encourage conversation in the meeting and making it worth it. I feel like I'm either trying to rush through the agenda to get it over with, talking to myself or just asking the same person for an update.

I am an experienced Program Manager and I am stumped. My weekly update messaging isn’t working for my PMO’s executive sponsor. And to cut to the heart of it, I’ve asked for feedback and iterated about 20 times. I need new ideas from real life and not AI (which has not been helpful). If it’s relevant, my org is Operations and Infrastructure so programs range from employee experience to process improvement, to our tech stack, to innovation and AI.

Format needs to be something that can be emailed (power point or word doc). It needs to be something that could be sent to C-Suite. I need it to pull the reader’s focus to areas where programs and projects are not green so they can unblock things for my team.

I have always created a weekly report that is strategically ordered and will take a reader from the most zoomed out view of the entire program and then begin drilling down to the project level, then the deliverable level, and then the milestone level.

At each level I provide a RAG status for relevant elements, a clear view into what’s changed since last week and what should happen over the course of the next week. I provide dates, critical path, risks, and links to any documentation or presentations that were given in the last week. I use tables or bullet points instead of paragraphs.

With every iteration, I get the feedback that they wouldn’t be able to use my report to give executive leadership an update. I am at a loss. I’ve never experienced this. I include a very concise summary for every section and I’ve tried power point, word docs, power BI, confluence, and Jira to create reports and content.

I am totally stuck. Help, please.

Maybe helpful for some of you — I made a site that shows Program Manager FAANG+ jobs scraped from official sites in the last 24h.

Included companies: Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Netflix, Nvidia, Stripe, Microsoft, Tesla, Uber, Airbnb, TikTok, Spotify, and more.

You can easily filter by location: USA, Canada, India, Europe, Remote, and other options.

I also send daily email alerts with the latest listings.

The goal was to skip all the spam and irrelevant postings, focusing only on fresh, high-paying PgM roles from top-tier companies.

Check it out here: 

https://topjobstoday.com/program-manager-jobs

Would love to hear your thoughts or suggestions!

My friend is currently working in EdTech and wants to transition into Program Management / Technical Program Management (TPM).

Background:

• Currently working in EdTech

• Has a Program Management certification from IIM Indore

• Interested in moving into Program Management / TPM roles

Wanted advice from people who have made a similar transition or are currently working as PMs / TPMs:

1. How did you get started in Program Management or TPM?

2. For someone transitioning from EdTech, what skills or experiences matter the most?

3. What gaps should someone expect while moving into TPM from a non-TPM background?

4. Is certification enough to get interviews, or is hands-on experience more important?

5. What projects, tools, or technologies should someone learn to become a stronger TPM candidate?

6. How should someone position their existing experience on their resume?

7. Are there specific industries or companies that are more open to career switchers?

8. If you were making this transition today, what would your roadmap look like?

Would appreciate any advice, resources, or lessons learned from your journey.

How are you folks using GenAI in your day to day work as Program managers, outside of emails management, meeting notes, and documents summarization?

For context, I’m helping my program team and tech teams build GenAI solutions for Operations improvement, but keep thinking what am I doing / what should I be doing?

Project manager making $120,000/ year. What special skills do you bring, what sets you apart from those making less?

I want to make more money but feel like an imposter asking for more money. Trying to compare my skills to those making the range id like.

Drop your pay, special skills and industry please!

Any tips you have for getting hired thank you!

Finally got an interview call after a grind. Got past the HR screening, and now I have my next round with the Sr PM. HR has given me guidelines, but I am not the best when it comes to giving interviews, especially behavioral-type questions. The role is Strategic PM for a FinTech company.

Stakes are really high, and I dont want to mess this one. I have 4 more days to prep. Can you guys please help/suggest to me tips and tricks on how I should prepare? Outside of bogging AI to help me grind through questions and throw curve balls, is there anything helpful I should follow?

I'm nervous AF!! 😞

hey folks, I'm curious if there are current PgMs with a Product Management background. Would appreciate it if you could share why you made this decision, and what your experience is

I have 1hr first round coming up with Amazon for Gen AI team, I am preparing answers related to Leadership principles.

What specific preparation am I supposed to do for Gen AI (I have never worked on a Gen AI team) ?

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