Manager, Tech Program Management

Key job responsibilities

• Own and drive delivery via your team on large projects across the Grocery technology space, including individual team member management duties and delivering results through your team.
• Guide your team in collecting business and systems requirements from internal and external customers, overseeing specification writing, and ensuring project schedules from design to release and production launches.
• Enable cross-team coordination to develop optimal solutions in an agile environment, leveraging your previous hands-on experience.
• Develop strategic roadmaps and long-term vision for your domain, while managing team performance through hiring, coaching, career development, and performance reviews.
• Manage budget planning, resource allocation, and build relationships with senior leadership and external stakeholders.
• Drive operational excellence by implementing process improvements, identifying and mitigating risks, and establishing metrics to track team performance and project success.
• Empower your team to make appropriate tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market, and ensure clear communication of goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to cross-functional and remote project teams through your direct reports and leadership chain in alignment with organizational mechanisms.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams.
• 8+ years of technical program management experience.
• 7+ years managing complex technology projects hands-on.
• 3+ years of experience as a people manager.
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of Software Development experience.
• 5+ years as a tech team manager.
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems).