Technical Program Manager Job ID: 25-08742 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 * 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 * Job details *