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Manager, Engineering Programs
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- Operating rhythms and routines : Manage operating routines that facilitate decision-making, autonomy, leadership alignment, and team engagement
- Innovative process improvement and effectiveness: Identifying gaps or improvements, designing proposed changes, socializing with leadership, and developing policies and/or processes necessary to implement decisions made by the leadership team.
- Strategic Initiative Management: Act as the escalation point and air traffic control across domains to manage the integrated governance, risk management and strategic alignment for the most important initiatives.
- Special project planning and execution: Serve as on-the-ground execution for a wide variety of cross-functional projects for the leadership team. Ability to navigate internal networks and build internal consensus is important.
- Planning and Portfolio Management: Guide the strategic direction and support quarterly planning, resource allocation process, value realization, and standards Planning Portfolio Management processes across GPS.
- Lead the development and execution of AI-powered strategies to optimize internal operations and business processes.
- Strategic thinker : Bring outside-in thinking to the organization, highlighting industry trends that should be considered and evaluated.
- Outcome and metrics tracking/reporting : Work closely with leaders across the organization to develop goals and Objectives and Key Results; develop systems for managing performance against those goals. Ensure that our key efforts and initiatives are aligned to our strategic priorities.
Program Management Key Responsibilities:
- Organize and lead planning activities resulting in the creation of a release/program roadmap. Ensure all teams align with enterprise planning expectations.
- Proactively manage across stakeholder groups to establish interdependencies, identify risks and resource constraints, and eliminate significant roadblocks in a timely fashion.
- Exercise smart decision-making and effectively collaborate with other leaders and stakeholders to address key issues and roadblocks aggressively and in a timely fashion.
- Ensure measurable KPIs are developed for the portfolio of programs, and that they align to the overall KPIs for the organization.
- Design and manage pilots and beta testing.
- Create and manage clear Gating Criteria with business partners for Go/No-go decisions.
- Ensure regular, active communication with adjacent programs and external stakeholders, including international regions.
- Identify program impediments and addresses including proper escalation to individuals/groups as needed.
- Lead program retrospectives and commitment to improvement on a regular cadence.
- Define launch strategy for new product capabilities including geographic scope and rollouts, detailed timing, ramp and analytics plan.
- Advocate and manage program implementation according to PayPal s product lifecycle management.
- Maintain awareness of the cross product/program synergies and actively communicate opportunities to simplify or better align work across teams
- Lead effective project/program governance change and stakeholder management, ensuring adequate understanding of timelines, resource needs, risks, contentions, and dependencies.
- Assess the current methodology, identify/rationalize gaps vs. best practices, and continuously improve the process to support our aggressive deployment schedule.
What do you need to bring-
Professional experience requirements:
- Overall 12 years of experience and 4 years into program management and business operations in a product development team is a plus
- Relevant experience organizing multiple teams delivering on software/product development initiatives required. Agile lifecycle management experience preferred.
- Successful track record of managing complex development programs to deliver technical solutions and achieve business results, positively impacting the customer experience.
- Good knowledge of project management process, project management software tools, templates and management techniques
- Experience with different software development methodologies including the agile development methodology such as Scrum
- Success in developing program/project level artifacts to support a major software implementation program with concurrent releases
- Experience in Payments or Fintech industry will be an added advantage
Proven ability to:
- Apply articulate thought leadership.
- Gain and maintain leadership trust.
- Navigate ambiguous situations successfully.
- Manage and execute complex projects.
- Drive strong operational efficiency.
- Develop and finalize executive presentations.
- Tell a story, build a narrative, craft a storyboard, and develop PowerPoint slides.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills required in English
- Develop effective, matrixed, cross-organization relationships, collaborating and communicating across business and technology stakeholders, business partners, multiple geographies and Centers of excellence
- An inherent bias to action
- Proven leadership skills; self-motivated and a self-starter with a Can do attitude
- Team player, energetic personality, quality minded, focused, committed and able to work independently in a fast-paced, changing environment
- High degree of professional confidence and credibility with effective presence, strong written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate technical concepts and plans at all levels
- Sharp business judgment, detail oriented yet able to always see the "big picture"
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
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