Job Description
You love solving problems by creating powerful, beautiful, and intuitive digital products. You are passionate about technology and using it to solve complex problems. You understand how to leverage people, process, and tools to build and launch products at scale.
As a member of Devbridge, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the most complex challenges in software delivery today. You will be part of a growing team of Product Designers and Engineers creating world-class digital products for some of the largest companies in the world. As a Technical Program Manager, you will play a key role in creating, measuring, and ensuring engineering effectiveness for one of our Fortune 500 clients.
Responsibilities
Build strong and aligned program teams to efficiently deliver on shared goals.
Collaborate with client-side Product Management and internal Product Design and Engineering teams to define program requirements, set priorities, and establish scope including definition of long-term strategy.
Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and changes effectively by optimizing scope, schedule, and resources accordingly.
Develop and own communication plans to effectively and proactively communicate program status, issues, and risks to stakeholders.
Partner with cross functional teams to drive technical analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation phases.
Define and track key metrics and key quality and performance indicators and drive cross functional execution of program deliverables.
Influence product decisions to align with higher company initiatives.
Drive internal and external process improvements across multiple teams and functions including reducing the manual efforts through automation.
Run the day-to-day aspects of key client engagements:
Create and maintain a product backlog
Run agile ceremonies with globally distributed team members
Facilitate communication between client stakeholders and development team members
Provide product demos and presentations to clients
Monitor and proactively communicate project health through metrics
Maintain balance of budget, scope, and schedule according to engagement terms
Coordinate and run product launch activities
Facilitate product usability testing sessions
Drive new business and promote mutually successful client engagements, renewals, and expansion of services:
Run requirements gathering workshops with clients
Work with team members to produce estimates for client proposals
Advise current clients on product direction and work directly with delivery teams on technical options
Identify opportunities for new workstreams and solutions within current engagements
Contribute to the Product Management practice through knowledge sharing and consistent demonstration of leading delivery practices
Requirements
BS or BA degree
Experience managing agile programs or products from inception to delivery at scale.
Knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope.
Experience working with client stakeholders to define programmatic data exchange between projects.
Experience working with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products.
Strong coordination and multi-tasking skills.
Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.
Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones.
Strong experience and understanding of software development technologies
Product ownership experience
Ability to translate a client’s potentially ambiguous vision all the way through into a detailed, technically sound product solution
Demonstrated problem-solving experience for complex business challenges
Strong Agile product management background
Lean requirements gathering and story mapping experience
Ability to pick up technical and business concepts quickly
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Excellent organizational, time management, prioritization, and project management skills
Ability to lead by influence
Willingness to travel up to 30%
Bonus Points
MBA degree
CSM, PMP, Scaled Agile certification
Experience delivering end-to-end custom software solutions at scale
Experience using software product management tools
Ability to leverage Agile techniques (Kanban, Scrum)
Software development experience
Benefits
A quickly scaling international company with a variety of challenging and compelling projects
Growth opportunities in a matrixed management environment
Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
Health, dental, life, and vision insurance
Four weeks paid vacation plus standard United States holidays
401(k) plan with company match
Maternity/Paternity benefit
Flexible health and wellness benefit
Opportunities for professional development such as conferences, seminars, and educational courses
Team building events, Friday lunches, and stocked kitchen
Employee referral bonus program
Devbridge is committed to providing equal employment opportunities available to all. We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical to our success as a company, and seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.