Remote Position
[Remote] Senior Technical Program Manager
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cypress HCM is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to deliver high-quality features and products in a complex, fast-paced environment. The role partners with engineering, product, design, and other teams to plan and execute technical programs, manage dependencies and risks, coordinate releases, and drive projects to completion.
Responsibilities
- Drive planning, execution, and delivery of technical programs •tracking dependencies •, decisions and risks, working to mitigation and escalation options
- Lead planning, refinement, and release ceremonies for the engineering team(s)
- Manage backlog maintenance and prioritization of features • and production issues working with engineering and product
- Manage •clear communication of progress/status • with project stakeholders
- Adapt to changing conditions and modify project execution plan as appropriate while managing multiple projects concurrently
- Proactively highlight and resolve risks and issues and clearly communicate those risks to stakeholders
- Identify blockers and facilitate the removal of those blockers
- Cultivate relationships across engineering, product, and technical teams to drive progress forward, influence negotiations, and advocate for desired outcomes that best serve our teams
Skills
- A Bachelor's Degree with at least 3 - 5 years of experience as a Technical Program/Project Manager, Scrum Master, or managing cross-functional projects
- Experience in a Medium- to Enterprise-Sized Company, Scrum master experience, IT/engineering projects only, dependency management, and release management support/coordination experience
- Strong technical proficiency demonstrated by the ability to understand architecture diagrams and/or have a working knowledge of APIs and system integrations
- Ability to communicate clearly and proactively, facilitating teams working collaboratively and driving stakeholder decisions regarding risks, tradeoffs and timeline impacts
- Problem solver with the ability to thrive under pressure
- Working knowledge in release planning and management
- Experience in risk reporting, management and mitigation
- Experience in Project Management Methodologies, Frameworks, and tooling
- Preferred certifications: Scrum Master Certification (such as CSM or PSM) or PMP and any other relevant certifications
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