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Alteryx is searching for a Product Delivery Program Manager in Broomfield, CO.

Position Overview:

The Program Manager is a senior servant leader who leads as part of the team to integrate delivery across Product and Engineering throughout the product and software development lifecycles to deliver strategic technical outcomes at the program level. Our program managers use exceptional soft skills to act as the glue that binds together product development efforts spanning multiple technology and operational teams to ensure they are effective while minimizing waste and risk. The role requires strong business acumen, leadership, and a solid grounding in agile-lean software development practices and an ability to build relationships. 

Success in this role is dependent on an ability to drive outcomes and actionable recommendations by emphasizing team strengths to accelerate success while to navigating friction and ambiguity. The ability to build trust with and influence senior management is essential. The ideal Program Manager will embody a unique blend of skill in strategic thinking, an eye for detail, artful communication, and the ability to simply get stuff done. 

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Execution – Realize Product and Engineering strategy through program delivery on initiatives like periodic engineering launches/releases, transformation efforts and others. Make recommendations on how best to achieve strategy especially through operational delivery.

• Holistic Ownership and Orchestration - Simultaneously own a portfolio of up to 3-5 programs within an investment area. Programs vary in size and are often in various stages of development. The Program Manager orchestrates progress from inception to delivery balancing trade-offs to make progress while focusing on optimizing processes across the whole. 

• Proactive Communications - Act as the primary communication liaison for each program, taking responsibility for shared understanding with the effective and efficient flow of information. Communication will focus on stakeholders’ communication needs so that they are quickly and adequately informed of key developments. Escalate and manage impediments / issues and risks, pre-vet new risks & possible mitigations.

• Organizing for Success – For each program, ensure that a charter is established with clear objectives, resources, deliverables, and definitions of success; and that all stakeholders are aware of, and aligned with, scope and target milestones. Work to continuously adapt the scope for maximum value balancing cost of changes with their benefits and ensuring these are communicated where necessary.

• Meeting Facilitation – Demonstrate excellent facilitation skills in moderating meetings. Examples include engaging all participants to facilitate their best contribution, sending agendas ahead of time, establishing clear objectives, managing the process to realize these objectives, capturing key content, and following up promptly on all action items. 

• Portfolio Management - Work with stakeholders to ensure that the program’s product portfolio and its artifacts and assets (i.e. requirements and/ or spec docs, UX designs, architectural designs, etc.) are evolving appropriately with progress to delivery high quality technical solutions.

• Analytics and Tools – Using an understanding of business outcomes and the principles of effective delivery, leverage analytics to radiate actionable information throughout the organization from the team to executive level. Leverage tools capabilities to automate and simplify program activities. Act as the source of truth for the organization by ensuring reported information is evidence-based, accurate, complete, and consistent so that best next actions and decisions can be taken. 

• Risk Management – Work to mitigate the effects of complexity especially through ownership of complex dependencies. Use Us working with Scrum Masters / Team Leads to track them and solve problems and remove impediments.

• Relationship Building – Builds and maintains strong relationships across the organization in support of overall program delivery. Cultivate high-performing teams to enhance delivery.

• Program Level Activities – Lead program level events:

  • Release Planning events to map out a credible plan for delivery, identifying dependencies and risks across teams and negotiating scope and timelines when necessary.

  • Regular Steering Committee meetings for your programs

• Team Participation - actively contribute to the cohesion and effectiveness of the program management team.

Valued Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, information technology or other relevant discipline; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• 3 - 5 years of experience in Program/Project Management delivering technical solutions for internal teams.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; experience presenting complex concepts and information to customers and senior management.

• Excellent facilitation skills.

• Thorough understanding of product and software development lifecycles end-to-end

• Previous experience working with and managing vendor relationships is a plus.

• A proven track record for being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on projects.

Compensation:

Alteryx is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role in Broomfield is $101,700 - $172,900. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location. This role is eligible for variable compensation including bonus and stock grants.

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Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply? At Alteryx, we support a growth mindset for our associates through all stages of their careers. If you meet some of the requirements and you share our values, we encourage you to apply. As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we’re invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.

Benefits & Perks:

Alteryx has amazing benefits for all Associates which can be viewed here.