Remote Senior Technical Program Manager

Summary

Join Platform Science as a Senior Technical Program Manager to support Product & Engineering with cross-functional team leadership and execution strategy. This role is accountable for delivering innovative product development initiatives involving multiple teams and third-party partners.

Requirements

• A self-starter; understand the expected outcome, get the context, and then work entrepreneurially to get it done
• An excellent facilitator, amazing communicator, and skilled listener with a strong understanding of team dynamics
• Passion for product strategy, agile, and traditional project management methodologies; ability to combine and develop hybrid tools to drive project and team success
• Understands how to navigate complex business and interpersonal issues in a fast-paced environment; seeing problems as opportunities
• Brings people together to create alignment rather than being a communication go between
• Exhibits a positive, can-do attitude and willingness to work in a hyper-growth environment; in other words, you can roll up your sleeves and thrive in a fast-paced start-up
• 10+ years of program/project management experience in a SaaS/PaaS or tech organization
• Proven track record as a Technical Program Manager; can provide real-life examples leading large, complex, multi-team product development initiatives where you increased efficiency and speed while reducing costs
• Agile, Scrum, and/or Project Management certifications; ability to demonstrate expert level knowledge of core competencies of both agile methodologies and traditional project management practices; prior experience as a product manager, engineer, scrum master/agile coach is helpful
• Experience with Infrastructure teams supporting engineering led initiatives preferred
• Experience with driving hardware ODM development projects from start to finish preferred

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Engineering leads, and engage with third-party development partners to deliver on initiatives involving multiple teams both internal and external to Platform Science
• Develop project roadmaps and adaptive plans to continually identify critical path, dependencies, risks, and unknowns; ensure progress is transparent and visible to leadership
• Understand the product strategy and key business objectives; ensure the team has a shared purpose, shared understanding, and a sense of urgency to deliver against these objectives
• Lead the teams in agile estimation and forecasting; track progress towards “working software” deliverables using empirical data while helping the team inspect and adapt to deliver high quality, well-tested solutions that meet/exceed the project timelines and objectives
• Manage dependencies, get ahead of risks, and surface information that will allow the teams to make good strategic decisions and tradeoffs
• Establish, support, and improve the development process with our third-party partners
• Work closely with Product Operations coordinating releases with internal teams and partners
• Build bridges and create alignment; facilitate collaboration, teamwork, and communication to ensure we are operating effectively as one-team across Platform Science
• Actively identify areas of improvement; apply systems thinking and lean principles to streamline efficiency and value delivery
• Promote a trusting and safe environment that allows team members to engage in healthy debate and collaborative problem solving

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurances
• AD&D and life insurance
• 401k plan
• Paid vacation, sick leave and holidays
• Six weeks of paid parental leave