Senior Manager, Technical Program Management – Autonomy Software
Zoox
Principal, Program Manager – Portfolio Manager
WillHire
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Pleasanton • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $166,100 - $249,100 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Ensure alignment with portfolio management and partners in the portfolio management process including intake, prioritization, and status reporting.
- Ensure new requests are surfaced at the appropriate time in the planning cycle, and facilitate processes that allow the review and prioritization of those requests as well as monitoring of active requests until they are committed or deferred.
- Champion a culture of innovation, experimentation, continuous learning and encourage teams to embrace new technologies, processes, and practices to improve efficiency and get results.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, business partners, customers and executives to drive continuous improvement, transparency, and collaboration.
- Orchestrate and lead business partner relationship improvement initiatives including QBPRs.
- Lead BT portfolio management to ensure standard operating and reporting practices across BT towers.
- Liaise with the BT portfolio management to enable centralized resource management.
- Enable standardized and flexible capacity planning and management.
- Establish and maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) to measure the success and effectiveness of the product operating model transformation efforts and provide regular reports and updates to leadership.
- In addition, be responsible for your tower’s OKR process.
- Use a data-driven approach to see opportunities and roadblocks and to mitigate risks to transformation efforts.
- Work with teams to develop effective solutions to overcome challenges.
- Principal level understanding of operating model methodologies, tools, and standard processes, and stay up-to-date on industry trends and developments.
- Define & implement comprehensive operational cadence aligned to Workday’s annual cadence & other key team members, including partnering with the BT PMO on Annual planning.
- Partner with leaders to assess existing processes and programs; find opportunities to redesign and take action to unlock value and drive organizational health.
- Support and/or execute key employee & leadership meetings, including All Staff Meetings, Quarterly Business Partner Reviews, Leadership Offsites, etc.
- Partner with Leadership to handle the budget on an ongoing basis.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in product or engineering organizations with a demonstrated ability of successfully leading transformation efforts in large organizations.
- 5+ years of experience with Program Management, relationship management, and organizational change skills, including experience working with multiple partners.
- Strong leadership, coaching, and communication skills, with the ability to effectively influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and executives.
- Proven ability to synthesize information and see the big picture while efficiently handling details.
- Expertise with collaboration tools (i.e. G-Suite, Zoom, Slack, Miro) and Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Knowledge of Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban and Lean, and experience implementing Agile practices and methodologies across multiple teams and departments.
- Ability to analyze data to provide meaningful insights that can be translated into action.
- Excellent project management skills with the ability to build and implement actionable plans with detailed timelines and to manage multiple priorities and projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Effective meeting management, presentation, and written / verbal communication skills.
- Enthusiastic self-starter who is a logical, analytical thinker and creative problem solver.
- Agile certification such as Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification is a plus.
- Ability to influence others to achieve results.
- Strength in facilitating workshops, seeking input, and storytelling.
- Affinity for technology and innovation, and comfortable in a fast-paced environment.
- Business operations, or business planning function at a large enterprise company/firm.
Benefits
- Workday Bonus Plan
- role-specific commission/bonus
- annual refresh stock grants
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
program managementorganizational changeAgile methodologiesdata analysisproject managementoperating model methodologiescapacity planningKPI establishmenttransformation effortsrelationship management
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingcommunicationcollaborationanalytical thinkingproblem solvinginfluencefacilitationsynthesis of informationstorytelling
Certifications
Professional Scrum Master (PSM)Certified Scrum Master (CSM)Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
