Program Manager (Automotive industry experience)
Randstad Digital Americas · Newark, CA · 1 mo ago
Project Management$65–$75/hrFull-time
Location: Newark, California • Job type: Contract • Salary: $65 - 75 per hour • Work hours: 8am to 4pm • Education: Bachelors
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex IT programs from initiation through closure.
- Define program scope, objectives, milestones, budgets, and resource requirements.
- Develop and maintain integrated program plans and roadmaps.
- Manage multiple project workstreams, dependencies, risks, issues, and change requests.
- Drive governance, executive reporting, and stakeholder communications.
- Collaborate with business leaders, product owners, architects, engineering teams, and vendors.
- Ensure alignment between business goals and technology solutions.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings, steering committees, and program reviews.
- Monitor program performance against scope, schedule, budget, and quality targets.
- Lead geographically distributed and cross-functional teams.
- Drive organizational transformation, modernization, and process improvement initiatives.
- Implement Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- MBA or master's degree preferred.
- PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist, or equivalent certifications preferred.
- Proven experience managing multi-million-dollar technology programs.
- Demonstrated success delivering enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
Skills
- Agile
- AWS
- Cloud
- Confluence
- DevOps
- Enterprise Applications
- GCP
- IT Infrastructure
- computer science
- Information Technology
- Jira
- Azure
- Azure DevOps
- MS Project
- PRINCE2
- Scrum
- SDLC
- Software Delivery Lifecycle
- Integrations
- Executive Communication
- Decision Making
- Influencing Without Authority
- Problem Solving
- Strategic Thinking
- Agilist
- Automotive industry
- budgets
- budget
- MBA
- process improvement initiatives
- PMP
- Change Management
- delivery methodologies
- Digital Transformation
- Financial Management
- governance
- Governance & Compliance
- Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
- Portfolio Management
- IT programs
- Program Management
- Program Planning
- PgMP
- program scope
- Project Management
- executive reporting
- Resource Planning
- risks
- Risk & Issue Management
- Vendor Management
- schedules
- stakeholder communications
- Stakeholder Management
- Team Leadership
- technology solutions
Benefits
- medical
- prescription
- dental
- vision
- AD&D
- life insurance
- short-term disability
- 401K plan
Pay
$65 - 75 per hour
Schedule
8am to 4pm