[Remote] Sr. Engineering Program Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rafay is a technology company working on GPU PaaS, Kubernetes, and foundational cloud and AI/ML technologies. The Senior Engineering Program Manager will lead complex, cross-functional engineering programs from concept through delivery, coordinating stakeholders, managing plans, risks, dependencies, and execution. The role also provides executive visibility, drives launch readiness, and improves engineering program-management practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end execution of large, technically complex engineering programs involving multiple teams and workstreams
• Develop and maintain integrated program plans, roadmaps, milestones, schedules, dependencies, and critical paths
• Partner with engineering and product leaders to define program scope, requirements, priorities, deliverables, and success criteria
• Drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Product, Architecture, Operations, Quality, Security, and other stakeholder organizations
• Identify technical, schedule, resource, and organizational risks early and drive mitigation and contingency plans
• Facilitate technical reviews, requirements discussions, planning sessions, program reviews, and executive decision-making
• Track execution against commitments and proactively resolve blockers, dependencies, and conflicting priorities
• Establish effective program governance, operating rhythms, status reporting, escalation mechanisms, and decision frameworks
• Translate complex engineering issues into clear business impacts, options, trade-offs, and recommendations
• Provide concise program updates to directors, VPs, and executive stakeholders
• Partner with engineering leadership on resource planning, capacity constraints, sequencing, and prioritization
• Define and monitor program KPIs covering schedule, quality, execution, readiness, risk, and business outcomes
• Drive launch/readiness activities and ensure appropriate validation, operational readiness, and stakeholder sign-offs
• Lead retrospectives and implement improvements to engineering planning and execution processes
• Mentor program managers and contribute to improving program-management standards, tools, and best practices across the organization
• Influence teams and senior stakeholders effectively without relying on direct reporting authority

Skills

• • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• • 8+ years of experience in Engineering Program Management, Technical Program Management, Product Development, Engineering, or a related field
• • Demonstrated experience leading large-scale, cross-functional engineering programs with multiple dependencies and stakeholder organizations
• • Strong understanding of the software and/or hardware product development lifecycle
• • Ability to understand system architecture, engineering designs, technical dependencies, and development trade-offs
• • Proven ability to develop program plans and drive teams against milestones and measurable outcomes
• • Strong risk, dependency, issue, and change-management capabilities
• • Experience working with Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid development methodologies

Benefits

• Opportunities to advance professional careers in advanced technology development
• A fun and dynamic work environment
• Robust benefits
• Attractive stock options

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