Senior Technical Program Manager

Senior Technical Program Manager 16181

• Hourly pay: $70-$75/hr
• Worksite: Leading professional development and networking company (Mountain View, CA - Hybrid)
• W2 Employment, Group Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement Savings Program, PSL
• 40 hours/week, 6 Month Assignment

A leading professional networking company seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager. The successful candidate will provide clarity on product/program objectives, ensuring that roles and responsibilities are well understood and address any conflict promptly with minimal direction and assistance from management. The company offers a great work environment!

Senior Technical Program Manager Responsibilities:

• Interact with program sponsors and change agents to identify scope, requirements, and manage projects throughout the entirety of the project lifecycle.
• Facilitate and drive large cross-functional projects, serve the needs of multiple stakeholders within a complex multi-faceted organization, and manage that strategy through to completion.
• Apply formal change management practices that ensure that programs are baselined at kickoff and all changes are thoroughly reviewed for justification impact to the program and have received appropriate approvals.
• Manage executive project expectations including owning escalation, communication, and exec level interaction on critical strategic projects for the company.

Senior Technical Program Manager Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Technical Program and Product management, including feature development, roadmap management and experience in Agile Methods in Infra product/platform development teams.
• 5+ years of technical leadership with a track record of operating independently, demonstrating creativity, being detail-oriented, and delivering results in a highly organized manner is preferred.
• B.S./B.A. Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong technical acumen, ability to learn new technologies quickly is preferred.
• Demonstrated understanding of technology-based product lifecycle management including development, launch and management phases and primary roles/responsibilities and deliverables of key organizational functions is preferred.
• Exceptional analytic skills to translate requirements and designs into successful action plans is preferred.
• Experience leading dynamic programs and projects with cross-functional matrixed resources working in a fast paced collaborative environment is preferred.
• Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders, set direction and approach, mobilize and motivate teams, and execute with limited information and ambiguity is preferred.
• Strong practical understanding of managing the life-cycle of large-scale programs is preferred.
• Proven problem-solving skills to anticipate the risks of non-performance and incorporate prevention and remediation measures within the implementation plan is preferred.

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