Senior Software Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Partnering with extended software development teams to help plan, track, and execute complex, cross-organizational programs while maintaining focus on building the right capabilities at high levels of quality and technical rigor.
• Driving program execution by unblocking progress, organizing work, simplifying execution, and helping teams make effective tradeoffs across scope, schedule, and dependencies.
• Participating in technical planning and design discussions to understand system architecture, coordinate development across teams, and manage dependencies.
• Performing program analysis, managing risk, identifying and influencing necessary course corrections, and communicating program status and activities across all levels of management.
• Using data and program insights to measure outcomes, visualize progress, and support informed decision-making.
• Continuously assessing and improving development workflows and planning practices, and driving execution discipline through structured problem-solving.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience).
• Experience with commercial software products and the software development lifecycle.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and tenacious.
• Adaptable and able to deal with uncertainty, ambiguity, and change.
• Demonstrated emotional intelligence.
• Ability to influence others even when you have no direct line of authority over them.
• Experience in collecting and analyzing data to drive improvements in product quality and software development processes.
• Interest in applying emerging tools such as AI-assisted development platforms and copilots to improve development workflows.
• Technical degree in Engineering, Math, or Science.

Qualifications

• You may be a strong fit if you enjoy connecting ideas across teams and helping bring complex technical initiatives to life.
• Prior program management experience is not required—many successful Program Managers at MathWorks have grown into this role from engineering and other technical paths.