Technical Program Manager II [Remote-US]

About Us

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Our Team

Quanata, LLC is an insurance technology innovation company that engineers advanced risk prediction and prevention solutions, develops risk-focused acquisition capabilities, and builds/supports a full-stack, flexible, digital & increasingly AI-native insurance platform. This helps our primary clients, State Farm and HiRoad Assurance Company, adapt to evolving market needs. Quanata, LLC is wholly owned and funded by State Farm. As a company that prioritizes an inclusive and positive culture, we believe the core of our success is in hiring talented people — across disciplines — who want to help us make a quantifiable impact.

The role

We’re looking for an accomplished and well-rounded Technical Program Manager II (TPM) to join our Quanata Program Management Office (PMO) Team. The PMO Team drives Quanata’s Rhythm of Business and focuses on delivery optimization across the company and driving company level goal achievement. TPM IIs manage initiatives that drive direct and material impact against the highest business priorities with complex execution. They lead through delivery optimization challenges and drive continuous improvement to promote efficient and effective processes.

Your day-to-day

• Bring order to chaos by building, implementing, and sustaining right-sized processes that empower the organization through clear workflows, communications, and reporting. Marshal delivery of the highest priority goals in the organization.
• Support organizational leaders in building effective goals (OKRs) and partner with cross-functional leads to break work into portfolios, programs, and workstreams (projects, kanban, etc.) to deliver goals.
• Ensure vertical and horizontal alignment and transparency at the appropriate level at the right time across all programs, projects, and services, including with senior leaders.
• Guarantee execution against the highest level goals by driving program and project teams to hit expected delivery goals (OKRs), and ensuring teams have effective and efficient ways of independent working.
• Facilitate governance across their teams, with minimal guidance implement known governance processes and patterns, and manage escalations end-to-end, exhibiting best practice issue management with minimal supervision.
• Drive organizational change across large teams through independent identification and execution of process improvements via a rigorous and thoughtful continuous improvement framework and organizational change management.
• Tackle volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous challenges by driving planning cycles and ensure clarity of goals (OKRs), schedules, milestones, and risks across your assigned areas of responsibility, which will include complex technical programs and projects.
• Provide program management direction within assigned programs, projects, and services, influencing organization