Lead Technical Program Manager

| Greater Boulder Area
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We are looking for an experienced Program Management Lead who excels at delivering high quality, on-time software products for our state-of-the-art cloud storage solution and has experience leading a small team of program managers. This is a player/coach role where you will be equally comfortable actively managing programs as well as leading the team. 

The ideal candidate will have a blend of experience in formal program management, strong technical depth and excellent communication skills, with a desire to make the team better. Ideally the Program Management Lead will also have experience transforming teams to agile.

Opportunities to Make an Impact: 

The Program Management Lead drives engineering activities throughout the product lifecycle to deliver high quality program releases on schedule. 

More specific responsibilities include: 

  • Player 
  • Collaborate with engineering to develop detailed plans for complex software features 
  • Track engineering progress against release schedules 
  • Identify risks and mitigation plans that maintain schedule integrity 
  • Measure and drive high product quality 

  • Coach 
  • Lead the program management team to continuously improve through a combination best practices, consistency and innovation 
  • Provide expertise and leadership in migration to agile development practices 
  • Act as a representative for the team across Solidfire engineering and the broader NetApp 
  • Career management and mentorship of program management team
Qualified candidates must have a track record of successfully managing software features and releases from concept to new product introduction. 

Additional requirements include: 
  • 5+ years experience as a technical program manager with a track record of delivering complex software features and releases on time, with high quality 
  • Strong leadership and analytical skills in combination with excellent written and verbal communication abilities 
  • 2+ years experience as a lead or manager 
  • Experience with agile methodologies e.g. Scrum, SAFe. Bonus if you have migrated teams from a more traditional waterfall methodology to agile 
  • Ability to understand the technical details of the software your teams are working on. You should be able to assess risk, challenge estimates, identify dependencies and ultimately guide the team to the optimal schedule
Education and Experience
B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or other related field or equivalent

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