GEICO

Senior Staff Technical Program Manager

Bethesda, MD Full time

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

The Team  

We are seeking a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager to join the Strategy, Analytics, and Operations team that supports GEICO’s foundational platforms. In this role,you will manage, orchestrate, and drive execution of the foundational platform roadmap. Ensuring work stays aligned with business goals, architectural standards, risk and compliance requirements, emerging technology adoption, and long-term scalability.  

 

You’ll support the coordinated delivery of foundational capabilities that power how GEICO builds, secures, operates, and scales technology, including PaaS platforms, infrastructure services, cybersecurity platforms, enterprise IT, data platforms, SRE capabilities, developer experience tooling, and workforce productivity solutions. Working across engineering teams and leaders, you’ll manage dependencies, sequencing, and delivery across domains, enabling teams across the enterprise to deliver faster, operate reliably, and innovate with confidence.  

  

The Role  

In this role, you’ll get to act as a trusted advisor to executive and senior leaders, helping translate strategy and technical concepts into clear business outcomes and confident decisions. You’ll get to lead cross functional planning, intake, prioritization, and sequencing, making sure teams stay aligned, and dependencies are thoughtfully managed. You’ll help guide the foundation strategy and roadmap, balancing investment, scalability, cost efficiency, and long-term business value. You’ll get to define and evolve platform KPIs and success metrics, like adoption, resiliency, developer experience, time-to-market, and operational health. You’ll then bring those metrics to life through monitoring and reporting frameworks that show real impact. You’ll drive execution of complex, multiteam enterprise platform programs, managing risks, milestones, and change across engineering, product, and operations. Along the way, you’ll help ensure scalability and repeatability through strong documentation and operational practices.  

  

Your Background  

  • Enterprise platform experience: 10+ years in program/portfolio management working across large scale enterprise platforms in data engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and developer engineering and/or financial tech.  

  • Change agent mindset: Passion for improving how teams build, operate, and scale technology, with a focus on driving meaningful organizational transformation.  

  • Technical depth with business focus: Able to engage deeply with engineering leaders while staying grounded in business outcomes and value.  

  • Data driven storytelling: Experienced in building and presenting dashboards, roadmaps, and impact stories using tools like PowerBI, Tableau, or internal visualization platforms.  

  • Proven delivery impact: A strong track record of driving complex, high-impact initiatives, navigating ambiguity, managing risk and dependencies, and influencing measurable outcomes across technology, business, and product.  

  • Thrives in ambiguity: Comfortable operating in highly ambiguous, rapidly changing environments, with intention and focus in bringing clarity, structure, and momentum as priorities and conditions evolve.  

  • Empathetic guide and collaborator: Known for building trust, supporting inclusion, and creating environments where all teammates feel supported and able to do their best work.  

  • Exceptional communicator: Articulates complex technical topics to nontechnical and executive audiences through clear narratives and storytelling.  

  • Education:Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field required. 


 

Annual Salary

$130,000.00 - $260,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.


 

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.


 

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
  • Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
  • Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
  • Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.