Are you data-driven?  We at NetApp believe in the transformative power of data – to expand customer touchpoints, to foster greater innovation, and to optimize operations.  We are designed for simplicity, optimized to protect, created to embrace future opportunity, and open to enrich choice.  We are the data authority for hybrid cloud, and we are helping our customers realize the full potential of their data.

We’ve built a Data Fabric for a data-driven world – to simplify and integrate data management across the resources that are best for the business.  With the Data Fabric, our customers can harness the power of cloud data services, build cloud infrastructures, and modernize storage through data management.

By building cloud infrastructures, customers get the scale and quality of service that modern applications require.  Only NetApp can help organizations focus on the business at hand when they develop a zero-touch infrastructure that manages apps, data and services as one integrated resource supporting both public and private clouds.

Job Summary

NetApp is the data authority for hybrid cloud. We provide a full range of hybrid cloud data services that simplify management of applications and data across cloud and on-premises environments to accelerate digital transformation. Together with our partners, we empower global organizations to unleash the full potential of their data to expand customer touchpoints, foster greater innovation and optimize their operations.

Job Requirements

As a Program Manager of Business Operations, you will be a trusted business partner for the leadership of key products within a growth product portfolio, helping bring structure and rigor to the disciplines of planning and business performance management, and serving as “the glue that holds things together”. 

What you will do:

Staff Operations for VP of Engineering:

• Install a predictable rhythm of well-planned staff meetings and internal communications forums which align to calendars at the corporate and BU levels.
• Partner with the administrative assistant to provide “chief of staff” style support for the VP’s priorities, overseeing his personal calendar to ensure the most effective use of time as well as readiness for all meetings and presentations.
• Be a liaison between engineering, with product management, marketing, and all other support functions
• Serve as the primary interface to business support functions, including finance, human resources, reporting support teams & internal communications

Team Level “Scrum Master” & Program Manager:

• Provide neutral, strategic organizational insights in order to partner with the VP to identify and clear impediments which prevent effective plan execution of the business plan.  Help teams to define escalations, support their rapid closure and call for decision making.
• Take the lead to drive improvements to core business processes and implementation of best practices which ensure teams are positioned to execute with pace and role clarity.
• Take the lead to define and own execution for cross-functional programs or strategic initiatives, particularly where ownership isn’t clear

Planning Process & Execution Reporting:

• Drive the strategic and operational planning process, ensuring alignment of engineering and product management to meet business unit deliverables.  Build workback schedules for all deadlines related to strategic plans, financial plans, and operational execution plans, and drive the process cross-functionally.
• Identify and define critical path initiatives, manage goal setting, cascading and follow through.
• Build weekly, monthly and quarterly reports with go “out and up”
• Coordinate operational business performance reporting, including plan of record setting and inspection of ongoing reporting accuracy and rigor.
• Install a discipline to plans of record, focus, corrective action planning, and follow-through  
• Source data, build and manage dashboards and trackers to ensure leadership transparency to critical path initiatives, key indicators of business results, and operational health
• Conduct investigations and analysis in order to drive generation of actionable insights from data

Education

Education & Experience:

• 10-15 years of related experience
• Undergraduate degree in business or computer science, or equivalent experience
• Experience in storage and data management software industry preferred
• Agile software development and SAFe certifications preferred

Skills You Have:

• Excellent planning and program management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, especially executive summary writing
• Very strong PowerPoint, Excel and Office365 skills
• Experience building financial models and managing large budgets
• Excellent facilitation and change management skills

Strengths You Demonstrate:

• An ability to drive collaboration and consensus, even among very senior level leaders
• A logical, pragmatic approach to solving complex organizational challenges
• An ability to dive deep into the detail, and yet also elevate to drive perspective from a strategic level
• A multi-disciplinary perspective and a natural tendency to see things from “end-to-end” across the operation of a business

What You'll Love About Us:

• Our Culture: It’s our culture and our people. If you ask anyone at NetApp why they work here, the answer is inevitably the same: it’s the people.
• Our Location: We have a beautiful Boulder office, with amazing Flatiron views, on the vibrant downtown Pearl Street.
• Health Benefits: NetApp provides comprehensive medical, dental, wellness, and vision plans for you and your family.
• Financial and Savings Programs: Whether it’s flexible spending, stock purchases, or competitive retirement plans, we work with you to capitalize on total compensation now and into the future.
• Work Life balance and more: To make sure of work-life balance, we offer paid and volunteer time off, educational assistance, legal services, and access to discounts and fitness centers.
• Global Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging: We fully embrace and advance a diverse, inclusive global workforce with a culture of belonging that leverages the backgrounds of all to cultivate a higher performing organization.

At NetApp, we take care of each other, our customers, our partners, and our communities simply because it’s the right thing to do. Along the way, we’ve repeatedly transformed businesses and set industry standards. Now more game-changing developments are in the pipeline. Behind our breakthroughs is an open, collaborative culture that fuels fresh ideas. By sharing our viewpoints, challenging our thinking, and empowering our people, we create unique and novel approaches to solving problems. Join us, and we’ll help each other do our best work.

So get ready to tap into the data visionary within, and join us as we accelerate digital transformation and empower our customers to change the world with data!

If you ask a NetApp employee why they work here, the answer is inevitably the same: the people. At NetApp, our culture is at the heart of what we do. We place importance in trust, integrity, teamwork, and caring above all else. NetApp is a place where people are empowered to make a difference. Empowered to innovate. Empowered to collaborate. Empowered to help ourselves and others be data-driven and change the world. We take care of each other, our customers, our partners, and our communities simply because it’s the right thing to do.

We work hard but also recognize the importance of work-life balance for our employees because what’s important to them is important to us!  Recently we implemented Family First, which encourages employees to take paid time off to bond with a new child (through birth or adoption) or to care for a family member with a serious health condition.  Our volunteer time off program is best in class, offering employees 40 hours of paid time off per year to donate their time with their favorite organizations.  We provide comprehensive medical, dental, wellness and vision plans for you and your family.  We offer educational assistance, legal services, and access to discounts and fitness centers. We also offer financial savings programs to help you plan for your future.

Join us and see what empowerment can do. 

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