Job Description

One of our direct client is urgently looking for a Program Manager @ Sunnyvale, CA

TITLE: Program Manager
LOCATION: Sunnyvale, CA
Duration: 6 to 12+ Months 

Rate: DOE

Description:

Drive Agile Scrum ceremonies for multiple product teams

Define goals, deliverables and schedules for managing multiple medium complexity projects within a program

•       Create accountability matrix for your projects

•       Assess and identify resources required for successful program completion

•       Identify potential risks for successful completion of your projects

•       Monitor the program progress against timelines and approved milestones

•       Lead cross functional coordination meetings to review progress and risks

•       Identify internal stakeholders for own area of work and engage on a periodic basis

•       Build strong relationships within the immediate working group

•       Communicate clearly and concisely in one-to-one/stakeholder meeting involving one–two teams

•       Demonstrate working knowledge of products and services

•       Identify potential risks for successful completion of your projects

•       Comprehend the financial plan for multiple project implementation

Who You Are

•       You have an Agile mindset managing programs and projects, with a focus on outcomes and delivering value

•       You display excellent communication/collaboration skills and a team-focused approach

•       You’re a disruptive thinker who can lead software innovations 

•       You’re passionate about teaching and mentoring others to be greater than they thought possible 

•       You’re organized, disciplined, and can manage large projects simultaneously

•       You’re stimulated by challenges and are ready to engage at Fortune 1 scale

You’ll make an impact by:

•       Increasing communication, collaboration, transparency and throughput across the organization and with our stakeholder, managing relationships with geographically distributed teams, stakeholders and third-party vendors

•       Serving as a Scrum Master for one or more teams on Payment group, facilitating team sprint ceremonies (daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospectives), developing and maintaining project schedules to track milestones, escalating project-related issues to leadership according to project guidelines, providing project status reports to stakeholders and management, managing project change control processes, coordinating production issue resolution, gathering and interpreting data/reporting, helping guide teams towards issue resolution and risk management and providing additional support to the team as needed

•       Implementing an Agile framework, usually Scrum, to manage teams engaged in highly complex projects with cross-functional peers, senior leaders/stakeholders and external partners: ensuring the team understands project objectives and timelines, as well as how their deliverables impact the overall program; working with project management to create and consolidate program timelines; communicating iteration/program health in a way that all levels of the organization can consume; collaborating with portfolio partners to resolve program issues and drive mitigation plans; and working with the portfolio team to determine business readiness for implementation

•       Identifying, tracking and reporting out on various metrics/KPIs to help measure the team’s success

•       Ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures and supporting company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans; utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy; and providi