Associate Director of Program Management
Johnson Controls
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Westford • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
Cloud
About the role
- Lead end-to-end program management for the Highspan migration initiative, ensuring on-time delivery of product migrations, architectural transitions, and feature parity goals
- Partner closely with engineering teams, product owners, and architects to define milestones, track dependencies, manage scope, and proactively surface risks and blockers
- Coordinate delivery across multiple brands, geographies, and engineering teams to ensure alignment with the unified platform vision
- Establish and maintain detailed program plans, dashboards, and regular reviews, providing visibility to engineering leadership and stakeholders
- Drive agile execution maturity within engineering by facilitating planning cadences, release coordination, retrospectives, and improvement loops
- Serve as the Engineering program point-of-contact, complementing the broader PMO by owning deeply technical or architecture-driven programs inside the R&D org
- Champion transparency, accountability, and engineering discipline across active programs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a technical, or engineering, related field
- 10+ years of experience in program or technical project management, with at least 5 years in a software product engineering environment
- Proven track record leading large-scale platform migrations, cloud transformation efforts, or multi-product initiatives
- Strong understanding of software development processes (Agile/Scrum/SAFe), and ability to partner directly with technical leads and developers
- Experience managing global teams and cross-functional stakeholders across time zones
- Excellent communication, organizational, and influence skills — able to operate independently and make decisions in a fast-paced environment
- Able to travel 5-10%.
Benefits
- Various relocation packages available
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
program managementtechnical project managementsoftware development processesAgileScrumSAFecloud transformationplatform migrationsarchitectural transitionsfeature parity
Soft skills
communicationorganizationalinfluenceindependent decision-makingrisk managementstakeholder managementtransparencyaccountabilityengineering disciplinecollaboration