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Technical Software Program Manager

Job Description

This role is responsible for managing software development programs/projects including planning, scheduling, budgeting, specification, design, testing, validation, documentation, and release. The ideal candidate will lead multiple multi-disciplinary teams in R&D. The Program Manager maintains workflows and resolves conflict using strong leadership, management, and communication skills. This position coordinates development, collaboration, and dependencies across different teams.

Responsibilities:

• Manages projects as a hands-on manager using technical and administrative skills to oversee and complete engineering projects
• Directs the planning and execution of multiple concurrent new product programs
• Commits resources and deliverables to each project based on priorities
• Ensures effort is aligned with the product vision and quality assurance processes
• Provides support and guidance to the project teams on a coaching basis, fostering teamwork, improving communications, providing suggestions and advice regarding better ways to accomplish objectives
• Keeps project teams from repeating past mistakes
• Leads, advocates, applies, and enforces best practices in design, implementation, and testing
• Helps navigate changing technologies and trends
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws including interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems
• Develops and implements improvements to the company’s structured new product development process
• Develops and communicates project plans and timetables
• Identifies and pro-actively manages program risk
• Develops program options and drive decision-making
• Ensures that all aspects of program cost, quality, timing, and scope meet business requirements
• Establishes and maintain essential program documentation
• Assists development organization during the product implementation, integration, verification, and certification phases to help mediate discrepancies and communicate decisions back to program management
• Assists in all facets of the regulatory approvals process, including design reviews, test plan preparation, troubleshooting/mitigation
• Conduct regularly scheduled project team meetings to review progress, discuss critical issues, make decisions, refine plans, and keep team members informed of changes to product requirements and/or the development plan
• Co-chairs critical design reviews with leads to present the program status to the senior leadership team

Qualifications:

• Experience working in consumer software products, and in leading others through the process of learning, implementing and contributing to it.
• Project and/or program management experience leading high-level cross-functional and global teams
• Very strong communication, facilitation and negotiation skills.
• Good to have technical roles as part of your profile.

Additional Information

• All your information will be kept confidential according to Equal Employment Opportunities guidelines.

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