Salary Range: 135000 to 170000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Program Management: Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of technical projects, from conception and planning through execution, delivery, and post-launch support.  
• Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams, inspire collaboration, and drive consensus among diverse stakeholders. Foster a collaborative environment and guide teams toward the successful delivery of project milestones.
• Initiative: Work independently to deliver significant value to technical cross-functional delivery teams.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with product managers, engineers, designers, QA, and other stakeholders to define project goals, milestones, and deliverables.
• Technical Expertise: Have a solid understanding of the technical architecture and underlying systems to facilitate informed decision-making and guide technical discussions
• Timeline and Resource Management: Create detailed project plans, partner with eng management to allocate resources effectively, and manage timelines to ensure successful delivery within scope and budget.
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks, develop mitigation strategies, and communicate risks and status updates clearly to stakeholders. 
• Stakeholder Communication: Provide regular project updates to stakeholders, ensuring that expectations are aligned and all necessary parties are informed of progress and any changes. 
• Process Improvement: Continuously seek ways to improve project management processes, ensuring that lessons learned are applied to future initiatives for increased efficiency and success. 
• Dependency Tracking: Track and manage interdependencies across teams and programs to ensure that potential conflicts or delays are addressed proactively. 
• Metrics and Reporting: Define and track key metrics to assess project success, identify bottlenecks, and continuously optimize performance. 
• Agile Coaching: Provide guidance and coaching on Agile practices when necessary, helping teams implement best practices and improve overall performance without direct involvement in day-to-day operations.

Required Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

• Experience: 5+ years of experience managing complex technical projects in software development, infrastructure, or a related field.
• Technical Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent work experience. Proven understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC), APIs, cloud infrastructure, and/or enterprise systems.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify, prioritize, and resolve issues that could affect project timelines or deliverables.
• Tools: Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack, SharePoint, LucidChart.
• Results-Driven: Strong attention to detail, with a focus on delivering projects on time, within scope, and with a high degree of quality. Additionally, ability to drive team delivery to timelines as appropriate, in partnership with engineering management.


Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience working in a fast-paced, agile development environment.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), and microservices architecture.
• Experience managing large-scale enterprise programs with multiple dependencies and stakeholders.
• Certifications in project management, such as PMP (Project Management Professional), CSM (Certified ScrumMaster), or KMP (Kanban Management Professional).