About Our Client

Our client is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America.

They partner with industry-leading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone.

About The Role

Our client is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager on a six month contract to manage software and product development schedules, milestones, and launches. This role reports into the Director, Program Management, and will support them in executing against the product roadmap. As part of the Program Management team, you will contribute to VPP product development efforts across the energy landscape as they seek to grow the largest virtual power plant in North America. You will partner with multiple Design and Engineering teams well as other program managers across the business development and strategic planning organizations.

What You Will Do

• Drive product development programs to milestones while managing and communicating schedules across multiple teams to ensure efficient alignment, coordination, and execution of highly cross-functional goals.
• Facilitate progress by ensuring appropriate scheduling, resourcing, and prioritization of engineering workflows.
• Assess and mitigate program risks based on development activities across product, design, and engineering.
• Contribute to program management systems and structures based on best-practices and your personal experience, to effectively integrate with and support the world-class technical team.
• Manage product features and projects through the full product lifecycle, with particular focus on successful testing, launch, and landing.
• Collaborate with Product & Engineering leadership to construct and maintain product development plans, schedules, and risk trackers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Technical / Engineering Program Management.
• Experience with software development and managing execution of programs that span multiple engineering teams.
• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team.
• Experience with consumer facing products.
• Ability to use technical judgment to drive and prioritize software engineering programs including testing, bug triage, technical launch plans, etc.
• Ability to understand the big picture from a technical and schedule standpoint, background in engineering is a bonus.
• Strong ability to drive programs forward, remove roadblocks, and escalate any major risks or issues.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills and able to communicate at an Executive level.
• Ability to manage several complex projects simultaneously.

Benefits

• This is a contract position with a six month duration. The hourly rate for this role is: $80 - $100.

Not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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