
Senior Program Manager
Zendesk
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Krakow • Poland
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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