Zendesk

Senior Program Manager

Zendesk

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: KrakowPoland

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Salary

💰 PLN 252,000 - PLN 378,000 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Lead company-wide programs with broad impact, liaising with Product Development teams and teams outside of Product Development including Product Marketing, Enterprise Data & Analytics, Legal, Finance and Go-to-Market.
  • Guide your teams through our quarterly planning process, helping to build out roadmaps, align dependencies, broker commitments from other teams, and resolve multi-functional landmarks.
  • Coordinate data, platform, and product workstreams and ensure teams deliver datasets and telemetry needed for reporting.
  • Drive delivery of measurement and ROI frameworks for AI features (Copilot, AI Agents, Guide/GenSearch), including instrumentation, experiment design support, and customer-facing ROI dashboards.
  • Manage risks, dependencies, and escalations across teams; keep senior leadership informed with concise executive updates.
  • Establish and improve program processes (RACI, dependency maps, risk registers, data ops readiness), and iterate to increase predictability and delivery velocity.
  • Deliver stakeholder-facing artifacts: executive steering notes, prioritized plans, adoption playbooks, and handoffs to GTM and Customer Success for scaled enablement.
  • Mentor/coach other Program managers on analytics program best practices and data-driven outcome measurement.
  • Own regular status reporting for your teams.

Requirements

  • Proven experience leading large, multi-team technical programs (multi-quarter, multi-region) in a SaaS environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to define and track measurable outcomes (adoption, retention, ROI, support cost reduction) and connect program work to business impact.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communications skills — able to influence senior leaders and align distributed teams without direct authority.
  • Practical experience with program tools and practices (JIRA/Confluence or equivalent, OKR-driven planning, RACI, dependency mapping) and with Agile / hybrid delivery models.
  • Collaborative, empathetic leadership style focused on team health and inclusive decision-making.
  • Experience working with globally distributed teams and working across multiple global programs simultaneously.
  • Preferred, Strong background in product analytics, data platform programs, or analytics product delivery — comfortable discussing Snowflake, data pipelines, data models and BI/visualization trade-offs.
Benefits
  • Hybrid work arrangement
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Health insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
program managementdata analyticsROI frameworksexperiment designdata-driven outcome measurementproduct analyticsdata pipelinesdata modelsBI visualization
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationinfluencecollaborative leadershipempathetic leadershipteam healthinclusive decision-making