Title Engineering Program Manager

Location: San Jose, CA

Duration 6 Months

Duties: What You'll Do

•             Build relationships across other program teams in order to understand business needs and find opportunities for closer collaboration and efficiency gain.

•             Responsible to coordinate deliverables for key milestones of multi-team cloud development program.

•             Serve as a single point of contact for all project related aspects.

•             Closely collaborate across teams to manage dependencies and drive alignment; work with partner teams to define schedules and plans.

•             Track and report progress to plan, identify and communicate risks and provide mitigation options.

•             Set up, actively track, and report out on JIRA Epics and Tasks

•             Effectively manage and communicate change and risk. Own communication and manage critical situations and escalations.

•             Help coordinate and organize for teams; build reference materials, assist with VP level meetings, and set up additional touchpoints as needed.

•             Ensure each team has the information and processes they need to be successful.

•             Maintenance of wikis, team pages, and SharePoint sites

•             Working across large engineering organizations to resolve challenges and deliver results

Skills:

•             7+ years’ experience as a program/project manager in a development or engineering team

•             Familiarity with JIRA

•             Familiarity with Confluence

•             Familiarity with the Agile framework

•             Strength in multitasking

•             Strength in evaluating process and workflows.

•             High verbal and written communication skills

•             Proficiency in working with global teams on a regular basis.

Education:

-BA or BS college degree