Program Manager (Remote)

About Us

LTSE supports companies in all stages of growth committed to long-term value creation, and the investors who share their values. We offer software and services for company-building and pursuing a path to the public markets, a U.S. national securities exchange for new and existing public companies, and a coalition for the exchange of ideas between companies and like-minded investors.

We believe in the power of a public market that supports continuous success for all stakeholders, including employees, investors, and their communities. We’re helping innovation and value creation flourish for now and far into the future through long-term investment, experimentation, and sustainable scaling.

Lead LTSE investors include Founders Fund, Collaborative Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Obvious Ventures, Uprising, and Initialized. LTSE was founded by Eric Ries, an entrepreneur, New York Times-bestselling author, and the creator of the Lean Startup methodology.

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced Program Manager who will be instrumental in the evolution and maintenance of the only U.S. national securities exchange designed for long-term companies and investors. As an expert in cross-functional collaboration, you will leverage your experience leading complex programs to build scalable processes that set the team up for success and advance our technology, business, and regulatory objectives. You'll use your full tool kit of portfolio, project, and process management skills to streamline planning and execution, align resources, build common ground, champion resilience, and bolster compliance. You will be joining a small team and have the autonomy to help us continuously iterate on our processes, practices, and tools.

You will:

• Help define effective processes, structures, and forums to deliver large-scale initiatives with significant cross-functional dependencies in a highly-regulated environment
• Serve as a partner to leadership in prioritization and roadmapping, especially around Infrastructure, InfoSec, IT, Regulation, and Operations Facilitate OKR, PVP, and sprint planning as needed
• Work closely with Product and Engineering to develop, test, and launch new products
• Develop detailed project plans and establish regular reporting to manage cross-team tasks, highlight risks, and track progress of programs and key initiatives
• Define, evaluate, and optimize Exchange policies and procedures to ensure they are appropriate, applicable, and current
• Build tools and resources that create common ground and level up collective knowledge of key topics, including comprehensive project and process documentation
• Promote a collaborative environment that fosters creativity, innovation, and learning

You are:

• An experienced Program Manager with a proven track record of partnering with a broad range of technical and non-technical stakeholders on creative, impactful solutions to complex coordination and collaboration problems
• A dynamic thinker that is eager to learn new concepts and skills and apply them in unanticipated ways
• Able to break down complex initiatives into manageable pieces, identify their dependencies, and build consensus on a path forward
• Comfortable operating autonomously across multiple teams
• A role model, coach, and mentor to others, with a passion for helping others succeed
• An excellent written and verbal communicator that thrives in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Detail- and data-oriented

We're looking for someone who has:

• 2+ years of program management or project management experience
• Experience managing shifting priorities while maintaining organization and control
• Experience leading progressively complex, cross-functional projects involving both business & technical domains
• Experience building tools and processes with outsized impact on the effectiveness of cross-functional teams
• JIRA expertise and familiarity with Google Workspace products

Nice to haves:

• Financial services or fintech industry experience and an understanding of related products, services, features, and key regulations
• Experience working closely with Infrastructure, InfoSec, IT, and/or Compliance functions
• You already embrace Lean Startup methodology, experimentation, and feedback-oriented development

Benefits include:

• People. Work in a mission-based company with skilled, committed, and supportive teammates who share your desire to create a new kind of public market, and have a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Excellent medical, dental and vision benefits.
• A commitment to a sustainable work environment, including an unlimited vacation policy that requires team members to take a minimum of three weeks vacation per year.
• 401k
• Cell phone reimbursement.
• Computer and home office setup.
• Competitive and flexible early startup compensation package range: $78,500 - $84,000 + equity, based on experience.

LTSE is committed to championing the inclusion of women and underrepresented employees at the earliest stages of the company’s life. We believe that inclusion is a team effort, and every team member is expected to participate in building a welcoming and representative culture.

LTSE is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

We enthusiastically work to make our application and interview processes accessible for candidates with disabilities.