Technical Program Manager

The Company

Arta is on an audacious and incredibly rewarding mission: to pave the way for people everywhere to lead more successful financial lives. Arta leverages AI and sophisticated digital tools—once reserved for ultra-high-net-worth individuals—and makes them accessible to a broader global audience. Think of it as your own digital family office, combining intelligent investment strategies, alternative assets, private market access, and smart automation to help you grow and protect your wealth effortlessly. We value trust, teamwork, and adaptability.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will play a critical role in collaborating with the engineering team that develops the trading platform, AI research, and backend infrastructure. You are the force multiplier who drives outcomes, not just timelines. You bring clarity to chaos, translating ambiguous goals into actionable plans while managing risks and dependencies with precision. With enough technical depth to engage meaningfully with engineers, you proactively solve problems before they escalate. You prioritize ruthlessly, streamline communication across stakeholders, and implement just enough process to enable speed and scale. Focused on long-term impact, you build systems—not just projects—and bring steady leadership even in high-pressure situations. Your value is felt not just in what gets done, but in how seamlessly and effectively it happens.

You will report to Charles Dong, co-Founder / Product Manager based in Singapore, while working closely with the CTO, CIO, and COO in the Bay area.

What You Will Do

• Drive cross-functional programs from concept to delivery—connecting engineering, product, operations, and compliance in the development of Arta's trading, AI, and fintech products.

• Develop and maintain program roadmaps, ensuring alignment across teams and transparency to stakeholders

• Anticipate and mitigate risks proactively, and clear blockers with velocity and grace.

• Own program-level planning rituals: sprint planning, reviews, milestone tracking, and retrospectives

• Partner with engineers and product managers to make high-quality technical trade-offs and sequencing decisions that balance speed, scope, and long-term scalability

• Bridge the communication between the Engineering team and Financial Operations team, and report to the Product team on real-time updates and progresses

• Bring order to ambiguity—turning fluid business goals into clear program plans and execution frameworks

• Evangelize engineering and product best practices while driving accountability for timelines, quality, and outcomes

• Serve as a technical sounding board and escalation point—deeply understanding the architecture, systems, and dependencies behind your program

• Support for engineering design documentation

• Project management of timelines and progress tracking
  

• 7–10 years of relevant experience as a TPM or engineering program manager in fast-paced tech environments. Software engineering and development background is ideal.

• Proven experience leading complex technical programs with distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, or trading platforms.

• Strong technical acumen—you don’t need to code daily, but you should be comfortable reading architecture docs, debating implementation trade-offs, and debugging timelines with engineers.

• Fintech product knowledge—whether from a trading platform, robo-advisor, or bank—you understand the regulatory and user dynamics that shape our domain.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills—you can translate between business, design, and engineering fluently.

• Familiarity with compliance, security, or operational requirements in a regulated industry is a big plus.

• Self-directed, scrappy, and outcome-oriented—you thrive in startup environments where clarity and process are earned, not handed to you.

• Based in the Bay area, or you have a plan to relocate, and work onsite at the Mountain View HQ at least 3 times a week.

1. Introduction Call with Head of Talent

2. Role Related Knowledge Interview with a senior Product Manager, 30m

3. Cross-functional Interview with a Financial Operations Manager, 30m

4. Technical interview with a software engineer, 45m

   1. This round entails high level engineering design questions

5. Hiring Manager Interview on Role Related Knowledge and Culture 30m

6. Culture Interview with CEO, Caesar Sengupta, 30m

• A competitive salary and benefits package, with ample opportunities for growth and advancement

• A vibrant and dynamic work environment where innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning are highly valued

• The opportunity to work with a diverse and talented team of industry experts, passionate about shaping the future of finance

• Robust health insurance offering for you and your family

• High deductible health plan available with health savings account contribution

• 20 weeks of parental leave

• 15 days PTO annually

Arta's Compensation Philosophy

We determine your salary based on factors including your interview performance, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Our offers are based on salary bands that are updated periodically using market benchmarks and consider geographic location as well (for example, higher cost regions like San Francisco or New York). If you are presented with an offer, we will review the base salary, benefits, number of options, notional option value and strike price. We would like to know if you accept our offer within 7 days.
Please keep in mind that the equity portion of your offer is not included in these numbers and represents a significant part of your total compensation.
IC I: $110,000-$180,000
IC II: $160,000-$230,000
IC III: $180,000-$300,000