Program Manager

Description:

What you’ll need to succeed:

• 7+ years of related experience in project / program
• management
• Proven ability to drive results, especially in a matrixed or
• influence based environment
• Experience and deep understanding of software development
• methodologies and principles (including SDLC, Lean, Scrum,
• Kanban, Agile Principles, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe))
• Can work well under pressure; manage tight deadlines and
• situations where conflicting priorities arise
• Ability to manage of competing priorities and schedules to get your project across the finish line.
• Adaptability to changes and uncertainty
• Keen perception to identifying early indications of risks and issues and ability to effectively manage and resolve them.
• Excellent organization and planning skills using with effective visuals that quickly gets teams aligned.
• Implement process to measure and improve efficiency of engineering teams; serving as an Agile coach and mentor.
• Identify improvement opportunities to better operationalize across the board.
• Ability to build rapport and drive influence with partners, stakeholders, senior + executive leadership
• Strong relationship building skills, coupled with high business acumen.
• Strong written, visual, and verbal communication skills.
• Highly accurate and detail-oriented.
• Visionary with ability to bring your vision to life.
• Passionate about continuous improvement and growth.
• Logical and data-based decision making thought process with a balance of intuition.
• Sets high-quality standards and outcomes excellent analysis and critical reasoning skills with a strong focus on execution.
• Possess a strong technical foundation to facilitate technical team discussions.
• You are a team player, with the courage to drive change through disruption while maintaining a respect for the team.
• You have the ability to simplify strategy into simple actions.
• You empower and inspire your colleagues and team mates to take action and embrace the mindset that, ?Everything can be made better”.
• You are curious, and are not afraid to dig deep and look in places that others ignore.
• Continuously strive to implement improvements
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Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as Scrum Master and/or Agile Coach
• Driven Agile transformation / implemented Agile methodologies to an organization
• Retail / e-commerce industry experience
• Experience delivering end-to-end mobile app solutions with a wide user base
• Familiar with Scaled Agile Framework principles and practices
• JIRA / Confluence power user
• Previous development experience