Job Title: Technical Program Manager

Location: San Jose, CA 95110 (Candidates must be able to work onsite in San Jose 2-3x per week.)

Duration: 3 months

Contract Type: W2 only

Pay Rate: $80.98/Hour

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with senior leaders to build strategic roadmaps, transform it into execution plans and deliver against business objectives.
• Performs project planning to establish an overall project plan, including key milestones, and drives progress to achieve project plan within time and budget constraints.
• Understand and coordinate sequencing of projects to accomplish progress.
• Understands and assesses critical paths and dependencies for delivering projects and facilitates discussions between project teams, product management and engineering.
• Performs risk management duties by identifying and analyzing risks, developing risk management controls and contingency plans to help increase probability of positive events for the project.
• Aggregates, organizes, and synthesizes program and project information in order to communicate with extended team and management
• Resolve misalignments across requirements, priorities, and schedule.
• Evaluates existing processes and procedures. Makes recommendations and drives process improvement and adoption of best practices (processes, tools, etc) to improve team efficiency and effectiveness.
• Drive release management activities to ensure successful deployment of product updates.

Required Skills:

• 6+ years of relevant experience as a program manager in software, SaaS and/or related industry
• Solid experience in software development, ideally within distributed (global) teams
• Strong program and project management skills
• Ability to handle complex, highly cross-functional projects with highly matrixed environment
• Ability to work with both non-tech and technical teams – can help translate business requirements into technical requirements
• Ability to be flexible, adaptable, and think quick on your feet given the fast change in business needs
• Strong interpersonal skills and how to build good relationships with Product marketing, campaign teams, legal, Business Model Strategy, brand, product managers; engineers and technologists with a variety of personalities and styles.
• Self-motivated and not afraid to tackle unknowns, demonstrates a strong bias to action
• Strong verbal, presentation, and written communication skills with the ability to appropriately communicate with the intended audience, especially executives
• Ability to manage in an environment with diverse partners
• Strong influencing and interpersonal skills, and ability to develop positive relationships
• Excellent documentation skills
• Experience leading transformation/improvement programs, define and establish program structure and governance frameworks