Program Manager II

Summary

Join Quanata's Program Management Office (PMO) Team as a Program Manager II and bring order to complex projects. You will manage initiatives with direct impact on high-priority business goals, leading through delivery optimization challenges and driving continuous improvement. This role requires strong program management skills, including communication, planning, execution, and governance. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, support organizational leaders in goal setting, and ensure alignment across programs and projects. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 6-8 years of relevant experience, and advanced skills in planning and execution. Quanata offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience and
• Six to Eight years project/program management or relevant experience
• Communications & Stakeholder Management - Proficient level
• Continuous Improvement - Development / nascent level
• Execution & Governance - Advanced level
• Managing Organizational Change - Development / nascent level
• Planning - Advanced level
• Expert in developing and maintaining team harmony in a diverse environment and showing workplace resilience in the face of change and feedback
• Recruiting: Assist with recruiting and interviewing various roles, as needed

Responsibilities

• Bring order to chaos by building, implementing, and sustaining right-sized processes that empower the organization through clear workflows, communications, and reporting
• Marshal delivery of the highest priority goals in the organization
• Support organizational leaders in building effective goals (OKRs) and partner with cross-functional leads to break work into portfolios, programs, and workstreams (projects, kanban, etc.) to deliver goals
• Ensure vertical and horizontal alignment and transparency at the appropriate level at the right time across all programs, projects, and services, including with senior leaders
• Guarantee execution against the highest level goals by driving program and project teams to hit expected delivery goals (OKRs), and ensuring teams have effective and efficient ways of independent working
• Facilitate governance across their teams, with minimal guidance implement known governance processes and patterns, and manage escalations end-to-end, exhibiting best practice issue management with minimal supervision
• Drive organizational change across large teams through independent identification and execution of process improvements via a rigorous and thoughtful continuous improvement framework and organizational change management
• Tackle volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous challenges by driving planning cycles and ensure clarity of goals (OKRs), schedules, milestones, and risks across your assigned areas of responsibility, which will include complex programs and projects
• Provide program management direction within assigned programs, projects, and services, influencing organizational policies, best practices, and standards, ensuring alignment with Quanata OKRs and senior leadership
• Collaborate effectively with all cross-functional colleagues and stakeholders and demonstrate workplace resilience against change, feedback, and challenges
• Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification
• Six Sigma Green Belt

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents
• A Headspace app subscription
• Monthly wellness allowance
• A 401(k) Plan with a company match
• A one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion
• Our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day
• All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment
• New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child
• The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent
• All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development
• All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp