Technical Program Manager - IT

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Coordinate efforts between internal engineering teams and external partners on planning, execution, timelines and stakeholder management.

- Project manage the cross-functional initiatives working with PMs, engineering managers and engineers to estimate efforts, define milestones, and drive the schedule.

- Track progress, resolve dependencies, evaluate risks and communicate status to upper management and project stakeholders.

- Engage and energize the teams to achieve aggressive goals.

- Track issues and proactively remove obstacles to drive momentum and progress.

- Identify communication gaps, manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities.

- Drive results proactively.

- Implement continuous improvements to the engineering organization and the program management process.

- Share program/project process frameworks, tools, and best practices that can be adopted throughout the organization. Improve product development and delivery.

Skills & Qualifications :

- Minimum of 3-4 years of experience with Technical Program Management

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

- Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, challenges and risks; Engineers enjoy working closely with you

- Experienced in project management; Familiar with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and able to apply them where best suited

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and exceptional emotional intelligence; Ability to influence and motivate people across a broad variety of job functions through your relationships

- Strong organizational skills to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously, without losing sight of highest priority items

- Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions

- Ability to understand complex concepts and make reasoned decisions objectively