Senior Program Manager

Summary

Join Wellhub, a corporate wellness platform, as a Staff Program Manager in Portugal. You will lead key product initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure on-time delivery. Responsibilities include managing schedules, identifying risks, leading decision-making processes, and tracking progress. The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented team player with strong organizational and analytical skills, experience in agile methodologies, and fluent English. Wellhub offers a comprehensive benefits package, including access to wellness programs, flexible work options, paid time off, parental leave, and opportunities for career growth. This role is a great opportunity to contribute to a high-growth tech company focused on employee wellbeing.

Requirements

• A true team player with a proven track record of delivering exceptional products through close collaboration with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, design, and business teams
• Detail-oriented professional with strong organizational skills, capable of managing multiple concurrent initiatives effectively in an Agile environment. This includes autonomously conducting comprehensive integrated tests and dry runs with a meticulous approach, ensuring high-quality outcomes
• Robust analytical and quantitative skills, with a data-driven approach to generating insights, iterating, and improving products
• Strong decision-making abilities, prioritizes tasks, and makes pragmatic choices in fast-paced environments
• Willingness to understand the business environment to build critical thinking and support decision-making
• Knowledge of agile methodology (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and agile metrics (e.g.: Throughput, Lead time)
• Enthusiastic about developing global products with global teams
• Entrepreneurial and self-driven spirit with a great desire to make things happen
• Fluent in English, with excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Responsibilities

• Deliver product initiatives using the appropriate agile methodology, learning & iterating frequently and fostering an accountability culture of delivery into the teams
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement by constantly evaluating and refining current products, processes and tools
• Proactively manage program initiative schedules, providing stakeholders with clear insights into risks, deadlines, and required efforts
• Lead initiative across squads, connecting the architecture and organizing interdependencies across multiple teams
• Support in creating and validating the test plan, integrated tests, and test documentation to ensure high-quality, on-time deliveries. Support successful integrated tests to ensure high-quality, on-time deliveries
• Lead decision-making processes for product development changes, ensuring stakeholders understand the implications and maintaining transparency throughout the process
• Track, in collaboration with product, design, and engineering, problems on the initiatives, troubleshooting incidents assessing both impact and risk
• Monitor and provide clear visibility on OKRs, initiative status, and agile metrics. Proactively identify bottlenecks and engage teams in driving opportunities for continuous improvement
• You will have the opportunity to develop overall Product Development skills by collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineering leads
• Live the mission: inspire and empower others by genuinely caring for your own wellbeing and your colleagues. Bring wellbeing to the forefront of work, and create a supportive environment where everyone feels comfortable taking care of themselves, taking time off, and finding work-life balance

Preferred Qualifications

Program management experience in fact-pacing tech companies is a plus

Benefits

• We're a wellness company that is committed to the health and well-being of our employees. Our benefits include
• WELLHUB: We believe in our mission and encourage our employees and their families to take care of their wellbeing too. Access digital fitness programs, and online wellness resources for meditation, nutrition, mental health support, and more. You will receive the Gold plan at no cost, and other premium plans will be significantly discounted
• FITNESS: Additional fitness subsidy to access onsite gyms and fitness studios
• FLEXIBLE WORK: At Wellhub, flexibility fosters a happier, healthier, and more productive work environment for everyone. As a Flexible First company, we offer two work model options: flexible hybrid and full remote, and make the office a place for collaboration, community, and team building. The model for this role can be discussed with your recruiter and hiring manager. We offer all employees a home office stipend and a monthly flexible work allowance to help cover the costs of working from home
• FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE: We understand that together, Wellhubbers and their leaders can make the best decisions for their own individual scopes. This includes flexibility to adjust their working hours based on their personal schedule, time zone, and business needs
• PAID TIME OFF: We know how important it is to take time away from work to recharge. Employees receive a minimum of 25 days paid holiday per year with an additional day for each year of tenure (up to 5) in addition to annual holidays (including an extra holiday on your birthday!)
• PARENTAL LEAVE: Welcoming a new child is one of the most special moments in your life and we want our employees to take the time to be present and enjoy their growing family. We offer 100% paid parental leave to all new parents and extended maternity leave
• CAREER GROWTH: Outstanding opportunities for personal and career growth. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development
• CULTURE: An exciting and supportive environment filled with passionate individuals from all over the world! You’ll partner with global colleagues and share in the success of a high-growth technology company disrupting the health and wellness space. Our value-based culture of trust, flexibility, and integrity makes this possible every day. Find more info on our careers page !