Program Manager

Job Description

TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER - RESPONSIBILITIES

· Accountable for managing the lifecycle for a cross functional body of work that has a long-term positive impact on the company

· Establish collaborative and productive relationships with product management, governance, UX design, vendors and other supporting teams.

· Foster an environment of engineering excellence and innovation. Insist on designing to the edge.

· Works closely with development teams to build and launch new products, features and programs.

· Define and organize the program, outline tenets, analyze data, drive performance improvements, and influence resource allocation for all stages of execution (from ideation to delivery)

· Be the scrum master for your team. Own planning, standups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of your sprints. Removes blockers and always find the path forward in challenging situations

· Keep technical debt in check. Ensure teams are building using modern practices and tools. Recognize and act of your responsibility for driving change for the entire development community.

· Cultivate operational excellence within your teams. Insist that your teams provide timely resolution of identified production defects. Understand service level agreements (SLA) and how your systems are performing in relation to them.

· Operate successfully in ambiguous environments.

· Communicate upward and outward

Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (preferably computer science) or equivalent experience

· 4 years of software engineering, systems engineering or similar experience, in addition to 1-2 years of project/program management experience and working directly with software development teams.

· Communication skills and experience working with technical management teams.

· Organizational and coordination skills along with multi-tasking capabilities to get things done in an environment.

· Ability to motivate and focus a collaboration to reach challenging goals

· Interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within a diverse, cross-functional team.

· Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations.

· Experience delivering with an agile methodology required

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $120,000.00 - $140,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Irving, TX: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Scrum: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• PMP (Preferred)

Work Location: One location