Remote Position
Director, Technical Program Management – Software
🌍 Remote · Ethiopia
💼 Full-time
Job Description:
- Lead, mentor and grow Technical Program Management team encouraging TPMs to anticipate challenges and act decisively.
- Define, lead and own the technical execution strategy for a large engineering organization, across multiple products and multiple platforms.
- Apply the right balance of technical and leadership skills to efficiently collaborate with engineering teams, program and product management teams and customers/partners.
- Deeply understand technology and products, influence technical and business strategy for the organization, and ultimately ensure that program and product goals are met or exceeded.
- Regularly communicate program status and drive visibility of program information, ensuring communication of objectives, timelines, and risks to all collaborators.
- Continuously identify improvement opportunities in new and established processes, and lead change across multiple teams and functions.
- Architect and implement efficient and scalable program management processes and frameworks to support organizational growth and technical demands.
- Develop metrics and KPIs to track and improve program execution and efficiency.
- Pursue every task with drive and appropriate sense of urgency. Consistently move problems toward resolution and help others do the same. Requirements:
- 12+ years of relevant experience, including 8+ years in technical leadership roles.
- BS or higher in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Proven history of successfully leading, building and scaling technical program/project management teams and operations in a big dynamic matrix organization.
- Excellent understanding of software development process and methodologies with outstanding organizational competence to balance multiple large simultaneous workstreams.
- Proven ability to think strategically and tactically and build consensus to make programs successful.
- Strong examples of a proactive approach in risk management, problem-solving, and strategic decision-making.
- Outstanding ability of creating and maintaining open lines of communication and ensuring transparency in sophisticated project ecosystems.
- Consistent track record of implementing and leading agile practices in software development environments. Benefits:
- Equity
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