What TPM Interviewers Actually Look For in Ops Candidates

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Wed, Mar 11, 2026

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Breaking Into Technical Program Manager Roles From Ops & Strategy
Edoardo Romani
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What you'll learn

One concrete thing to add to your CV this week

You'll leave with a specific action — not a to-do list. Something you can change or write before tomorrow.

What "technical enough" actually means at a tech company

You'll leave knowing exactly where the bar sits — and why your ops background already clears most of it

Reframe your experience in the language TPMs use

You'll map your existing work to the vocabulary engineering teams use to evaluate TPM candidates

Why this topic matters

Most ops and strategy professionals are already qualified for TPM roles — they just can't prove it in the language tech companies use. This session reframes the gap as a framing problem, not an experience deficit. You'll leave with a clearer sense of where you actually stand, and one concrete step toward closing the distance.

You'll learn from

Edoardo Romani

Technical Program Manager, GTM Technology at MongoDB

I'm Edoardo Romani, a Senior TPM with 7+ years running AI and technical programs at MongoDB, BCG, and Deloitte — including a 1,000+ user AI rollout. I came from consulting, not engineering, and had to earn credibility with technical teams from scratch. That experience is exactly what this session is built on. PMP certified, Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, MSc Bocconi 110/110 cum laude. I write on technical program management for Built In and Towards Data Science, and I'm sharing this because the path from ops into TPM is learnable — and nobody is teaching it with enough specificity.

MongoDB
Deloitte
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

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