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Manager, Engineering Programs
Xoom
posted 4d ago
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As a program manager, you will also manage end to end programs and bring overall visibility into program delivery ensuring governance structures and timely execution. You align the needs and timelines of portfolios by release planning and scrum of scrums. You facilitate data driven decision making by tracking, measuring, and visualizing key metrics across the org, and by coordinating all activities from goal setting to launch. You bring process and execution best practices, resolving complex roadblocks and / or dependencies.
Your day to day
Portfolio management / business operations key responsibilities include
- 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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