Edoardo Romani

Cohort 2

A practical guide to breaking into Project and Program Manager roles in tech — written from 7+ years of experience across BCG, Deloitte, and MongoDB.This article covers what delivery roles in tech actually look like day to day, the four skill categories you need to develop, how to position your existing experience in your job search, and five concrete steps to land a role — including how to lean on your network, handle internal mobility, and build credibility through side projects.Free to read. No fluff. Written by a practitioner, not a career coach.

How to become a Project/Program Manager in Tech in 2025

Go from ops and strategy professional to TPM-ready — with the vocabulary, artifacts, and frameworks to apply confidently to tech companies

Senior TPM · MongoDB, BCG, Deloitte

MongoDB

Deloitte

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

TPM at MongoDB, BCG, and Deloitte — 7+ years running AI programs at scale.

Most ops and strategy professionals with 5–8 years of experience are already qualified for TPM roles. They keep getting passed over because they can't demonstrate credibility in the language engineering teams respect — not because they lack the experience.This course closes that gap in five weeks. You'll build six portfolio-ready artifacts — a self-positioning memo, program brief, stakeholder influence map, status update, risk register, and written decision memo — using a real MongoDB AI rollout scenario, taught live in a cohort of 10–15. Every session is live. Every deliverable is yours to keep.

Most TPM candidates don't lack experience. They lack the right language.

Translate your ops and strategy experience into TPM language

Construct a program brief an engineering VP can act on in three minutes

Facilitate stakeholder alignment and drive decisions without authority

Diagnose stalled programs and escalate without burning relationships

Execute AI and GenAI programs with a framework most TPMs don't have yet

Build a TPM portfolio and position yourself for the role and the comp

You'll apply frameworks to your real work from Week 1. Without live program experience to draw on, the exercises won't land.

3+ years managing cross-functional projects or programs

This course is built for people who aren't engineers. Technical curiosity helps — a CS degree does not

No engineering background required

You'll use it in Week 1 to draft your self-positioning memo. Have it open and ready before the first session.

A current CV or LinkedIn profile

The Technical Project Manager Wanting to Level Up PMP or PRINCE2 certified, some technical exposure, targeting product-led tech companies

The Ops &amp; Strategy Professional Hitting a Ceiling 5–8 years managing cross-functional delivery, applying to TPM roles, and stalling.

The Consulting Alumnus Going In-House MBB or Big 4 background, now in-house, eyeing the TPM path

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How to become a Project/Program Manager in Tech in 2025