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About Our Team
The Washington Post is powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning News and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.
Why This Role Matters
The Washington Post is seeking a Program Management Fellow to define, implement, and continuously improve the operating processes that enable Product and Engineering teams to plan, build, and ship their best work.
This is a senior program-management leadership role focused on the Product and Engineering operating system: the practices, tools, decision rights, and operating rhythms that determine how work moves from strategy and roadmap planning through design, development, launch, and learning. The Program Management Fellow will identify where that system creates friction, strengthen delivery discipline and visibility, and lead improvements that help teams deliver more predictably and efficiently.
Working closely with Product and Engineering leadership, this role will help translate roadmap priorities into executable plans while preserving Product Management's ownership of what we build and why. A central focus will be advancing an AI-enabled development lifecycle, identifying where AI can improve planning, development, testing, documentation, and operational work and embedding effective practices into how teams work.
This position is based in Washington, D.C.
What Motivates You
You enjoy solving complex organizational and delivery problems and creating systems that help teams do their best work.
You are energized by turning ambitious product roadmaps into clear, executable plans without adding unnecessary process or bureaucracy.
You care about improving delivery speed and predictability by addressing root causes rather than simply tracking deadlines.
You enjoy connecting work across Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and business teams and helping people navigate complex dependencies and tradeoffs.
You are comfortable challenging existing processes and using evidence to determine what should be simplified, standardized, changed, or stopped.
You believe strong program management creates clarity and accountability while enabling teams to move faster and make better decisions.
You are excited by the potential for AI to fundamentally improve how product and engineering organizations plan, build, test, document, and operate.
You enjoy influencing senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams through strong judgment, clear communication, and practical solutions.
How You'll Support the Mission
Define, implement, and continuously improve the Product and Engineering operating processes that move work from roadmap through planning, design, development, launch, and learning.
Partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership to translate roadmap priorities into clear, executable plans with appropriate sequencing, ownership, and accountability.
Establish consistent and effective practices for planning, scoping, sequencing, dependency management, delivery reviews, and retrospectives.
Lead program management for high-priority cross-functional initiatives involving multiple Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and business teams.
Create clear visibility into commitments, progress, risks, capacity constraints, dependencies, and tradeoffs early enough for teams and leaders to act.
Diagnose recurring causes of missed commitments, stalled work, inefficient handoffs, and delivery friction and lead practical changes that address underlying causes.
Lead the implementation and…