Senior Staff Technical Program Manager

Job Description

The Release Program Management team takes large, company-wide, highly visible programs from vision to release. We facilitate ServiceNow’s overall release process through key partnerships with technology and business stakeholders. We work hard to ensure high quality on-time releases that delight our customers.

As a Senior StaffTechnical Program Manager, you will work with engineering, design and product teams to deliver world class products and applications. You’ll play an integral role in ensuring new products and underlying technologies are not only delivered on time, but exemplify the top-notch quality our customers demand. Our teams span the globe and require program managers to keep the big picture in focus andmanagelarge, complex release programs from start to finish. It will be your responsibility to orchestrate and navigate the product delivery lifecycle, reducing friction, and ensure consistent communications amongst the teams. In addition youwill also be responsible for providing a proactive, strategic perspective on process improvements.

Key Activities include

• Creating frameworks, coordinating & facilitating technically orientated new high visibilityprograms
• Organize complex, ambiguous problems into prioritized milestones, deliverables,risks, dependencies and success criteria for your programs
• Translate business objectives into execution strategy (tactical and strategic), lead and successfully execute the strategy through strong collaboration and agile leadership
• Develop metrics and data models to drive recommendations that accelerate decisions
• Develop trusted relationships with key technology, functional leaders and stakeholders to drive focus on the strategic program objectives and optimize program delivery. This includes establishing regular cadencesand holding resources accountable for their responsibilities within the program

Ongoing Activities include

• Drive initiatives for improvements in release processes, and software deliveryto meet our business objectives
• Developing required documentation such as process design documents, workshop agenda & presentations, stories, use cases, roles/responsibilities
• Communicate and collaborate among cross-functional teams in a multinational environment for recommendations and assisting teams with resolving critical path technical issues and challenges
• Proactively identify and address issues with internal business units and engineering teams.
• Analyze processes and outcomes to identify root causes & drive opportunities for improvement
• Lead by example, as a thought leader and subject matter expert in agile methods and agile product delivery.
• Demonstrate visible leadership through internal presentations, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Establish, collect, and enable the reporting of key quality and product delivery process metrics to executives, organizational leaders and teams.

You are a key team player and driving force for the above.

• You have exemplary technical program management skills; this is in terms of process and documentation, keeping two steps ahead of the plan (foreseeing issues, risks, dependencies); leading and facilitating meetings; crisp verbal & written communication skills with ability to negotiate/influence and work cross-functionally.
• You are passionate about the customer experience and service availability; uncompromising in delivery of high quality, scalable and sustainable solutions.
• You are also a critical thinker, embracing ‘out of the box’ thinking to solve problems.
• You lead by example; develop and share best practices across the team.
• You understand work can be fun and strive to create an environment that promotes team collaboration & pride in working towards a common goal. We like to have fun while we work, and you should too.

Qualifications

• 12+ years technical project/program management experience building programs, project management, and release schedules on a global scale with 6+years of that dedicated to running large engineering programs; basic knowledge of cloud infrastructureor 8+ years and a Master's degree; or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience driving large scale, complex global change initiatives and programs to a successful implementation.
• Experience designing and building metrics, KPIs, and dashboards.
• Solid experience in requirements gathering, including experience in creating process documentation
• Experienced with problem diagnosis, solution development, client communications, facilitation of decision making, documentation, managing client expectations and team leadership
• Results-Oriented, focusing on outcomes and accomplishments and thinking in terms of progress towards the big goal.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Excellent facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives, including the ability to concisely and accurately communicate to both engineers and senior management.
• Proven track record of using agile techniques to manage large scale and complex projects.
• Ability to efficiently context switch amongst multiple projects.
• Ability and desire to travel to ServiceNow locations worldwide.

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Additional Information

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