Senior Staff Technical Program Manager – Release Management

Senior Staff Technical Program Manager – Release Management

Requirements

• 10+ years of project/program management experience in mid/large size companies, ideally in a software engineering/product development organization.

Responsibilities

• Drive Release Programs to ensure software releases are on time and high quality
• Own and manage large scale programs
• Exercise wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments
• Organize complex, ambiguous problems into prioritized milestones, deliverables, and success criteria for your programs
• Translate business objectives into execution strategy (tactical and strategic), lead and successfully execute the strategy through strong collaboration and agile leadership
• Work with multiple delivery teams to take ownership and accountability of technical project planning and delivery for product development programs
• Develop trusted relationships with key technology, functional leaders and stakeholders to drive focus on the strategic program objectives and optimize program delivery
• Ensure data is collected to appropriately inform decision making for mitigating risks and resolving issues
• Utilize internal tools and agile mindset to create a collaborative environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, mastery, innovation and continuous improvement
• Drive a continuous focus on developing software-based solutions or using automation to replace repeatable, operational tasks
• Anticipate and remove obstacles that slow down or prevent programs from delivering on program objectives
• Drive for clarity to keep teams moving forward
• Provide ‘go to’ leadership, transparency and visibility to the entire Technology & Products organization
• Seek to continuously grow by proactively seeking and embracing constructive feedback
• Provide feedback to colleagues to encourage an open and collaborative culture
• Understand and streamline end to end process.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving.
• Proven project/program management experience involving many cross-functional teams
• Solid organizational skills with high regard for quality
• Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills – able to work well with many different types of personalities in various functions
• Excellent communication skills – Ability to communicate, document, and present complex technical issues in a concise and efficient manner for a variety of audiences
• Experienced and confident in creating slides and presenting to executives
• Must possess effective listening skills and comfortable asking powerful questions
• Passion for working with people in technical environments
• Proven leadership skills to influence and motivate without authority
• Proven facilitation skills to lead/drive a variety of program events
• Excellent negotiation and conflict management skills