
Senior Program Manager, Digital Business Transformation
AeroVironment
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Alabama • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $111,000 - $157,500 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Develop and execute program strategies for complex enterprise technology initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, digital transformation roadmaps, and stakeholder expectations.
- Oversee the creation and management of integrated, resource-loaded master schedules, budgets, and risk management plans; adjust priorities based on evolving business needs and program critical path.
- Serve as the single point of contact for program execution, facilitating communication between business units, IT, vendors, and executive leadership.
- Ensure high customer and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Lead change management strategy and execution, including stakeholder analysis, communications planning, training strategy, readiness assessments, and adoption metrics.
- Partner with business leaders to ensure cultural, process, and behavioral changes are embedded for long-term success.
- Lead enterprise change management efforts, identifying risks, dependencies, and impacts to business operations.
- Develop and execute mitigation plans to ensure smooth adoption of new systems and processes.
- Establish and manage program controls, success criteria, and KPIs.
- Provide regular program status updates and executive-level briefings on progress, risks, and financial performance.
- Partner with product owners, solution architects, functional leads, and operations to ensure successful system design, development, testing, deployment, and adoption.
- Support opportunity analysis, vendor selection, and proposal development for new initiatives. Drive continuous improvement by leveraging lessons learned and industry best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
- 12–15 years of experience managing large-scale programs, with a proven track record in digital transformation, enterprise application implementations, and/or major system upgrades
- PMP, PgMP, or equivalent certification
- Demonstrated success leading multi-million-dollar programs with complex technical and business change adoption components
- Deep understanding of project management methodologies, organizational change management principles, systems development lifecycle (SDLC, Agile, and hybrid approaches), and developing risk management & mitigation plans
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to navigate competing priorities and influence without direct authority
- Proficiency in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and other program management tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Jira, etc.).
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and strategic thinking skills
- Some travel required (~20%)
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- 401K with company matching
- a 9/80 work schedule
- paid holiday shutdown
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
program managementdigital transformationenterprise application implementationrisk managementstakeholder analysischange managementsystems development lifecycleAgileSDLCmitigation planning
Soft Skills
stakeholder engagementcommunicationleadershipstrategic thinkinginfluence without authorityadaptabilityproblem-solvingcollaborationcustomer satisfactioncontinuous improvement
Certifications
PMPPgMP