Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Own the overall development life cycle of the Stateful Platform and manage complex projects playing a central coordinating role for cloud API, mobile, and web initiatives.
• Work with product, engineering, QA staff to ensure a well run software development, test and release process.
• Play a key role in reviewing product requirements, identifying gaps to maximize the linearity in the development process.
• Regularly align with contributors to identify project risks and critical dependencies.
• Run the engineering planning, standup and retrospective process ensuring that Jira is reflective on the work.
• Work across teams to identify a schedule of dependencies.
• Develop logical solutions to business problems by asking questions, thorough examination, coordination, and collaboration with decision makers.
• Team with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
• Prioritize and manage multiple projects, often moderately complex projects.
• Ensure products are delivered on time and have high quality.
• Maintain knowledge of advancements in product technologies.
• Understand the impact of emerging business trends and their implications.

Skills & Expertise

• Expert in making Jira and other productivity tools a valued trusted part of development process.
• 8+ years of experience in building and leading strong engineering teams.
• Expert in both agile and waterfall processes.
• Extraordinarily organized with exceptional communication skills.
• Knowledge of the full life-cycle of product development.
• Demonstrated track record of successfully transforming enterprise technology processes that touch multiple disciplines.
• Experience with technology operations and support, mobile, web and cloud-based technologies.
• Excellent project management skills, experience working in a matrix organization.
• Leadership skills; analytical personality with ability to excite others about a project and communicate the vision.