Staff Program Manager

The Challenge

We are looking for a Staff Program Manager to join our R&D Customer Engineering organization and lead strategic customer engagements within the Design Partner Program. This is a highly visible, customer-facing leadership role responsible for accelerating customer value, improving product quality, influencing product strategy, and driving measurable business outcomes across OneTrust's most strategic accounts.

As a member of the Design Partner Program, you will operate at the intersection of Customer Success, Product Management, Engineering, and Executive Leadership. You will partner directly with customer executives, product leaders, architects, and engineering teams to identify business priorities, unblock complex technical challenges, advocate for customer needs, and ensure strategic customer investments translate into long-term product improvements.

Success in this role means helping customers achieve faster time-to-value, increasing adoption of strategic capabilities, reducing operational friction, improving product quality, and turning customer insights into roadmap investments that benefit both the customer and the broader market.

Your Mission

Lead Strategic Customer Partnerships: Own executive relationships across a portfolio of strategic Design Partner customers. Align business objectives, product strategy, and technical execution to deliver measurable customer outcomes. Facilitate executive reviews, success planning, milestone governance, and strategic alignment. Serve as the trusted advisor for product adoption, transformation initiatives, and customer success.

Drive Customer Outcomes and Business Value: Build customer success plans focused on adoption, business impact, operational efficiency, and risk reduction. Measure and communicate value realization through executive-ready business reviews and outcome tracking. Identify barriers to adoption and coordinate cross-functional remediation plans. Drive improvements in customer satisfaction, retention, expansion opportunities, and product utilization.

Be the Voice of the Customer: Synthesize customer feedback, product gaps, adoption challenges, escalations, and enhancement requests into actionable insights. Partner with Product Management and Engineering to influence roadmap priorities and investment decisions. Translate customer pain points into strategic recommendations backed by business impact and customer evidence. Establish closed-loop feedback mechanisms to ensure customer concerns lead to measurable product improvements.

Drive Program Execution: Own engagement plans, customer milestones, risks, dependencies, and success metrics. Coordinate execution across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Customer Success, Support, and GTM teams. Facilitate escalation management, executive decision-making, and cross-functional alignment. Ensure customer commitments are delivered with predictability, accountability, and measurable outcomes.

Lead Product Innovation Through Design Partners: Partner with strategic customers to validate emerging capabilities, influence product direction, and evaluate pre-release functionality. Identify opportunities to improve product-market fit, customer experience, and platform scalability. Help shape future product investments through structured customer discovery and use-case analysis. Serve as a bridge between customer needs and long-term product strategy.

Leverage AI to Scale Customer Impact: Use modern AI technologies to accelerate knowledge discovery, customer intelligence, program operations, and stakeholder engagement. Identify opportunities to apply AI-powered workflows that improve customer adoption, productivity, and operational efficiency. Champion responsible and practical use of AI across customer journeys and internal processes. Partner with AI-focused initiatives across Product, Engineering, and Customer Success organizations

You Are

A strategic operator who can engage equally well with executives, product leaders, architects, and engineers.

Obsessed with customer outcomes and passionate about helping customers realize business value.

Skilled at navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and executive-level stakeholder management.

An exceptional communicator capable of translating technical complexity into business outcomes.

Data-driven and outcome-oriented, with the ability to influence without direct authority.

Comfortable driving strategic conversations while remaining deeply engaged in execution.

Energized by solving hard customer problems and creating scalable solutions that benefit many customers.

Required Qualifications

BA/BS in a relevant subject is required

8+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, Product Operations, Product Advocacy, Design Partner Programs, or similar strategic customer-facing roles.

Demonstrated success managing executive stakeholder relationships and strategic enterprise customers.

Strong understanding of SaaS platforms, APIs, integrations, enterprise architecture, cloud technologies, and software development lifecycles.

Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives across Product, Engineering, Support, and Customer Success teams.

Proven ability to influence product strategy through customer insights and business impact analysis.

Strong analytical, communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills.

Experience driving measurable customer adoption, retention, expansion, or business value realization initiatives.

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington-based candidates: the annual base pay range for this role is listed below. Within this range, individual pay is determined by several factors, including location, job-related skills, work experience, and relevant education and/or training. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, equity, and/or commissions, as well as benefits.

Salary Range

$112,500—$168,750 USD