Why Join GEICO?
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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.
Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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
$120,000.00 - $260,000.00The 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.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.
Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.
Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.
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.
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