Technical Program Manager, CTO Office

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Technical Program Manager, CTO Office Schibsted · Stockholm · Hybrid We usually respond within a week. If you choose to apply, please include a short cover letter written in your own words. We're more interested in hearing from the real you than a polished template. You know the moment The program is behind. Two teams think they own the same decision, and a third thinks nobody does. Leadership wants a straight answer on whether the date is realistic, and right now nobody can give them one. If you've been the person who steps into that situation and turns uncertainty into a plan people trust, this role may feel familiar. The role You'd join Schibsted's CTO Office as a Technical Program Manager, working across the technology organization to keep strategic initiatives structured, staffed, tracked, and moving. Depending on what a program needs, you might act as project manager, program manager, or portfolio operator. These are portfolio-level initiatives that span multiple teams, functions, and sometimes organizations. The programs vary: platform migrations, shared-service transitions, operating model changes, or work following an M&A. What they have in common is complexity, many stakeholders, and ambiguity around ownership and decisions. You won't own Technology's overall operating model or portfolio strategy; that sits with the CTO. Your focus is turning strategy into execution: structuring initiatives, bringing the right people and decisions together, and giving leadership a clear view of progress, risks, and next steps. If you enjoy taking a half-formed mandate and building the plan, governance, and momentum around it, this is the kind of role we're hiring for. What you'd actually be doing Structuring initiatives from a rough mandate: clarifying scope, owners, milestones, dependencies, and key decisions. Running programs day to day, coordinating stakeholders, tracking progress, identifying risks early, and escalating blockers. Feeding into planning cycles and OKR work so initiatives stay connected to the technology organization's priorities. Writing status updates and risk summaries that help leadership make decisions. Working across technology, product, platform, security, privacy, data, finance, and the people organisations. Running governance such as steering meetings, portfolio reviews, and retrospectives, with enough structure to create clarity without slowing the work down. Sharing your experience with less experienced colleagues as they take on their own workstreams. Who you are You have substantial experience leading complex programs, projects, or workstreams in a technology organization. That could be technology program management, project management, portfolio operations, or technical delivery. You've worked with genuine cross-functional or cross-organizational complexity, such as a platform change, migration, shared-service rollout, post-merger integration, or operating model shift. You don't need to have done exactly this kind of work before. You do need to have handled work with this kind of complexity and made it land. A few things tend to be true of people who do well in this role: Structured: You can take a messy situation and turn it into a clear plan with owners, decisions, milestones, and follow-up. Influential: You build trust and create alignment with people who don't report to you, from engineers to executives. Adaptable: You stay level-headed when priorities shift and adjust without losing sight of the outcome. Communication: You communicate clearly and adapt the level of detail to different audiences. Self-leadership: You take ownership and move ambiguous work forward without waiting for every answer. We put real weight on how you operate as well as what you've delivered. Your professional skills and experience matter, and we'll also look closely at how you structure complexity, build trust, communicate, and create momentum across organizational boundaries. What growing in this role looks like You'll start by taking ownership of a workstream or smaller program end to end. Over time, you'll take on larger and more complex programs independently and become someone technology leadership trusts with ambiguous, high-stakes work. The work matters beyond any one program. When a technology separation or platform migration goes wrong, the tools a newsroom depends on to publish can stop working, or a subscriber's payment can fail. Strong program management helps keep Schibsted's media brands running for the millions of people who use them every day. The practical details The role is open to internal and external candidates, who will be assessed against the same role requirements. The role is based in Stockholm and follows a hybrid setup. Plan on being in the office at least 2–3 days a week, and you'll need to be based in Sweden. For Sweden-based roles, the final candidate will undergo a background check as part of the recruitment process. We review applications and interview on a rolling basis, so don't wait for the deadline if this sounds like your kind of problem to solve. We may move forward with the right person before the application period closes. Division: Schibsted News Media, CTO Office Location: Stockholm Employment type: Full-time Independent Journalism – That’s our business Schibsted is an owner of editorial media and the largest news provider in the Nordics. With brands such as VG, Aftonbladet, TV4, MTV, Aftenposten, Svenska Dagbladet, and Podme, we inform, engage, and entertain millions of Swedes, Norwegians, and Finns every day. Trust has been our foundation since 1839, when Christian Schibsted founded a small printing business in Oslo. For nearly two centuries, our journalism has empowered people, built communities, exposed abuses of power, and strengthened democracies. From the very beginning, we have embraced innovation and challenged the status quo. We believe that being creative and curious, and exploring new solutions and technology, is crucial to protect our core mission. Our democracies depend on independent journalism. That’s our business.