Technical Program Manager – Research and Innovation Engineering, Privacy PMO
Cloudflare
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Lisbon • 🇵🇹 Portugal
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Own the overall program planning and cross-portfolio management for the Research team, Innovation Engineering team, and Privacy team.
- Define, track, and manage complex dependencies between these organizations and broader Product Engineering, Product Management, Sales, and Legal teams.
- Implement a formal intake process for Research and Innovation projects, including clear criteria for prioritization, resource allocation, and measurable impact assessment.
- Provide clear, concise, and frequent updates on portfolio status, risks, and impact to Engineering Leadership.
- Drive the strategy to integrate the Research team's academic focus back into Cloudflare's core engineering efforts, ensuring greater internal adoption and impact.
- Program manage large-scale foundational projects, including:
- Handle high-priority, complex escalations from core engineering such as performance or quality issues.
- Establish a clear process for tracking the intake and prioritization of the Innovation team's "Tiger Team" projects.
- Facilitate the successful transition and handover of completed innovation projects to owning Product Engineering teams, and track post-handover success.
- Partner with leadership to manage the growth and expanding scope of the Privacy Engineering team into areas of Privacy Transparency.
- Act as the primary interface and broker for the Privacy team, ensuring compliance and transparency requirements are integrated early into technical roadmaps.
Requirements
- BS+ in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security or related field or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years experience in technical program management and a desire for continuous improvement.
- Ability to create realistic project plans, managing dependencies, and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
- Excellent oral and written communication.
- Experience working with multiple time zones and multiple cross-functional teams.
- Strong competency with Confluence, JIRA
- Experience with various development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Kaizen, Scrum, etc).
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
technical program managementproject planningdependency managementimpact assessmentAgileWaterfallKaizenScrum
Soft skills
communicationcross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingleadership