Director Technical Program Management
Pros
Interesting work, open transparent culture, very friendly helpful people for the most part! Love the philanthropic programs the company has, which is encouraged from CEO down: they provide 6 paid days off to volunteer at a charity; if you use all 6 days, they give $1000 to a charity of your choice; they also match any donations to charities up to $5000 per year. The leaders in my business unit have a really good vision, but could do better to communicate it downward all the way to the ICs.
Cons
So much work to do! So much infrastructure to fix - to automate. The leaders know that things need to be fixed and have provided a vision, but they need to do a better job of communicating it and ensure we are all marching to the same drum beat. From a Technical program perspective, they need to hire more! They are in middle of a transition, and from an Infrastructure Engineering perspective they are currently at a ratio of about 25-30 engineers per TPM. It needs to be more like 10 engineers per TPM.