Senior Program Manager

Summary

Join Wellhub, a corporate wellness platform, as a Senior Program Manager in Portugal! This role involves leading key product initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring on-time, high-quality deliverables. You will manage program schedules, lead decision-making processes, and track progress against OKRs. The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented team player with strong organizational and analytical skills, experience with agile methodologies, and excellent communication skills. Wellhub offers a comprehensive benefits package including flexible work options, paid time off, parental leave, and wellness resources.

Requirements

• Be 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
• Be a 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
• Possess robust analytical and quantitative skills, with a data-driven approach to generating insights, iterating, and improving products
• Have strong decision-making abilities, prioritize tasks, and make pragmatic choices in fast-paced environments
• Be willing to understand the business environment to build critical thinking and support decision-making
• Have knowledge of agile methodology (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and agile metrics (e.g.: Throughput, Lead time)
• Be enthusiastic about developing global products with global teams
• Have an entrepreneurial and self-driven spirit with a great desire to make things happen
• Be 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
• 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

Have program management experience in fact-pacing tech companies

Benefits

• 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
• Additional fitness subsidy to access onsite gyms and fitness studios
• 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
• Flexibility to adjust their working hours based on their personal schedule, time zone, and business needs
• 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!)
• We offer 100% paid parental leave to all new parents and extended maternity leave
• Outstanding opportunities for personal and career growth. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development
• An exciting and supportive environment filled with passionate individuals from all over the world!