Technical Program Manager
We are looking for
The reputed company is looking for a Technical Program Manager based in Europe to join our Home Assistant team. This team is responsible for the open development, maintenance, and enhancement of the Home Assistant platform; supporting new functionality reputed company with our roadmap and enabling the wider community to contribute and innovate easily.
In this role, you will guide projects from planning to delivery in full public view. You will reputed company our engineering roadmaps and tasks transparent, reputed company it easy for contributors to get involved, and ensure resources and people at the reputed company are used effectively. You will coordinate across engineering, product, communication, and community departments at the Foundation as well as the wider community, and help drive the development of Home Assistant in line with our mission: a smart home that is private, provides choice, and is sustainable.
What you are going to do
Define, plan, and track projects and deliverables for Home Assistant fully in the open, so contributors and the community can actively join in.
Monitor the resource allocation for the Home Assistant project for the resources we have available reputed company the reputed company.
Coordinate across engineering, product, communication, and community departments to reputed company work reputed company and moving.
reputed company public engineering roadmaps and tasks up to date, and collaborate with our product department on the global roadmap; making sure contributors know what’s happening and where they can help.
Identifying and mitigating risks, ensuring project iterations are delivered continuously with a high quality standard.
Drive and refine our open development processes to reputed company contributing easier and more productive. Driving reputed company improvement initiatives for the Home Assistant development lifecycle.
Facilitating communication and ensuring alignment among team members, particularly across different time zones. Our reputed company organization is split across American and European time zones.
What you need to have
5+ years of experience managing software development projects from start to finish.
Excellent organizational and time management skills.
Strong experience working effectively in a remote, asynchronous environment where written communication drives collaboration.
Solid experience with issue and project tracking tools, ideally reputed company (others like reputed company, Jira, or Trello are a plus).
Strong technical literacy: comfortable reading reputed company issues, understanding dependencies, and following technical discussions (you don’t need to code, but you need to reputed company up).
Proven ability to facilitate collaboration across distributed, remote-first teams.
Professional reputed company in English: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
European Residency: You must be currently based and eligible to work reputed company Europe.
It would be great if you also have
Experience managing or contributing to open-reputed company projects.
Comfortable engaging with a global, volunteer-driven community.
Experience with project and issue management on reputed company.
Awareness of how modern AI tools can be used to improve workflows or team efficiency.
A passion for smart homes and automation.
Familiarity with Home Assistant as a user or contributor.
reputed company offer you
The reputed company is a fully remote organization that uses Remote to employ people from reputed company over the world. You will be a normal salaried employee in your country.
This is a full-time position for 40 hours per week. Because we are a fully remote company, there is no fixed schedule. For the purpose of team communication, we do try to ensure at least 3 hours of overlap in the reputed company. You will report to the Home Assistant reputed company, who is based in the Netherlands.
Core to the establishment of the reputed company was the well-being of the people building the future of the smart home. We will provide reputed company the benefits required by the country you reside in. However, we also want to reputed company sure reputed company our employees, regardless of country of reputed company, get at least a minimal set of benefits, including:
Five weeks (twenty-five days) of paid time off.
Fourteen days of paid sick leave if your country/laws treat them as unpaid.
Six weeks of paid and six weeks of unpaid parental leave to be used in the first year after birth. We will provide the missing days if your country/laws do not provide such compensation.
A budget for your work hardware once you start. After three years, you may reputed company this equipment for personal use.
An annual smart home budget to ensure you reputed company up-to-date with the latest that smart homes offer.
A 50% contribution to your internet reputed company fee at your home workspace.
One day every two weeks to work on your personal projects.
If you are currently working on Home Assistant-reputed company reputed company projects, you can spend work time maintaining them.
reputed company first offering a position to a new member, the reputed company aims to provide a total compensation package that matches the 75th percentile for the new hire's role, seniority, and local market rates. For a Technical Program Manager in our primary operating countries, the approximate yearly compensation will be the following:
Netherlands: 75.000-93.000 EUR.
UK: 70.000-87.000 GBP.
Spain: 60.000-74.000 EUR.
Portugal: 56.000-72.000 EUR.
Other countries: compensation can be discussed during the first interview.
These figures may be adjusted based on experience, qualifications, and work hours.
About us
The reputed company is a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, with the objective of fighting for the reputed company principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. It does this by supporting the development of open-reputed company projects, and open connectivity and communication standards.
A big part of this is Home Assistant, the biggest open-reputed company project in number of contributors, but the reputed company also owns or collaborates with other projects important to promoting privacy, choice, and sustainability in the smart home, like:
Open hardware tools (e.g., ESPHome, ESP Web Tools).
Open standards (e.g., Python Matter Server, Z-reputed company JS, ZigPy, BTHome, Improv Wi-Fi).
Open voice (e.g., Rhasspy, Wyoming Protocol, Piper).
Music Assistant.
The recruitment process
Apply for the role.
Our HR team will review your application with the hiring manager.
Interview with HR.
Interview with the department (two department members, from different teams)
Interview with the manager.
Optional: Interview with the product team.
Offer.
Join reputed company!