Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead programs across a multiple, cross-functional teams from conception, through design and development, to delivery of tested, useable prototypes.
• Work across cross-functional partners  to identify scope, constraints, dependencies, risks, and timelines across programs.
• Proactively identify technical, procedural, legal, logistical, and communications challenges and partner with leads to drive creative solutions to resolve issues and mitigate risks.
• Coordinate communications across internal and external teams, including upwards communication to team leadership.
• Frequent communication with senior leadership to shape and deliver on the product roadmap, and requires to nimbly switch between. strategic and tactical initiatives to achieve technical, and business goals.
• Build dashboard to show case team velocity and impediments in Agile development tools such as Azure ADO, Rally.
• Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective.
• Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases.
• Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from the uncontrolled injection of work.
• Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance.
• Lead the scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices.
• Helps the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction.
• Assist the scrum and development teams in self-organization.
• Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity.

Key Skills:

• Organization, planning.
• Scheduling, program strategy.
• Reporting, proposal writing.
•  Budget planning.