Program Manager Tech 4

Program Manager Tech 4

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Job Summary : Talent Software Services is in search of a Program Manager Tech for a contract position in Redmond, WA. The opportunity will be eight months with a strong chance for a long-term extension.

Position Summary : This role requires excellent communication and collaboration skills with an ability to adapt to rapidly changing conditions and priorities.

You will be working with people from many different teams from across clients and backgrounds requiring an open mindset and strong negotiation skills.

You must be able to identify and partner with other groups to achieve joint or complementary goals. You will create, maintain, and track project-level information and be responsible for status updates, tracking action items and deliverables, creating timelines and initiative milestones, and striving for cross-team alignment toward them.

You will support product management with actions leading to clarity, and decisions across teams, as well as help establish and implement best practices for high-quality execution and product delivery.

A proven track record of successfully managing enterprise-wide projects shipping high-quality products and delivering on time providing measurable impact to be successful in this role.

Primary Responsibilities / Accountabilities : Build, develop and maintain highly collaborative and effective working relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate proactive planning and flawless execution against stakeholders' business objectives and product team goals.

Support planning across multiple product organizations, including, but not limited to both semester and long-term aspects, ensuring roadmaps and timelines are aligned across multiple product groups and across multiple work streams.

Support and execute rhythm of the business activities that support cross-product org alignment; includes overall cadence, preparation of materials and presents, developing status updates and scorecards and talk track for presenters;

follow up with post-meeting or offsite / event with follow-up notes, actions and support implementation of agreed upon goals.

Establish or enhance project processes, routines, and reporting to be well managed.

At times may need to document business requirements and / or help translate into product requirements, do traceability between business, product and tech specs and ensure gaps and issues are tracked for new features or project creation.

Manage, track, and drive alignment with partner teams on critical project deliverables.

Identify, evaluate, and implement knowledge management tools and sites (Teams, SharePoint, etc.) to ensure effective cultivating, maintaining and sharing of team knowledge.

Own acceptance and criteria needed to build out and / or create Dashboards and Reports.

Additional projects as needed.

Qualifications : Bachelor's Degree and 7+ years' experience in product management or equivalent combinations of marketing product management, program management, project management combination

3+ years' experience with requirement elicitation and distilling highly complex business requirements of various kinds (legal, compliance, user, operational) and write product features that would meet the needs

2+ years' experience managing cross-functional and / or cross-team projects

2+ years' experience working with Engineering teams, ensuring they understand product requirements and confirm technical design solutions meet those requirements

Knowledge of various analysis techniques : gap analysis, system design diagrams, business workflows, use case diagrams

Proficient with client's PPT, Teams, Visio, Azure DevOps

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Detailed-oriented

Demonstrated experience, success, and / or contributions in delivering cross-functional programs, including accountability, and driving results both as an individual and within a team

Ability to work in a flexible, fast-paced environment

Proactiveness and a strong positive outlook and approach to change management

Be able to work under pressure and deadlines, with the ability to manage complexity while driving clarity

5+ years experience in Product Management.

Bachelor's Degree required, and product management certifications such as Lean, Six Sigma or PMP are preferred

Extensive product management and expertise

Managing cross-functional projects and teams. (5+)

Working with engineering teams to understand and document requirements (5+)

Data analysis techniques to prioritize conflicting priorities (5+)

Expertise in Azure DevOps and Dynamics D365 (5+)

Preferred : Lean Six Sigma, PMP, or Product Owner Certifications

Design skills : creating beautiful layouts, UX designs, UX tools such as Figma

Understanding of basic AI concepts (LLM's, Client, prompt Engineering, etc.)

Experience with developing and implementing organizational frameworks, standards, and processes

Ability to influence others inside and outside of direct team

Lean Six Sigma, PMP, or Product Owner Certifications

Design skills : creating beautiful layouts, UX designs, and UX tools such as Figma

Understanding of basic AI concepts (LLM's, Client, prompt Engineering, etc.)

Experience with developing and implementing organizational frameworks, standards, and processes

Ability to influence others inside and outside of the direct team

If this job is a match for your background, we would be honored to receive your application!

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