Program Manager

The Program Manager is responsible for coordinating and managing cross-team and cross-department activities. This person will be well versed in the processes and procedures used to manage a collection of projects and will be key in the facilitation of those efforts.
This role is expected to have the background necessary to operate at the project level but will operate primarily at the program level within the department. #LI-Remote; #LI-IB1;

Job Responsibilities:

• Point person for multiple cross-functional projects.
• Lead detailed planning, coordination, execution, and delivery of multiple cross-functional projects.
• Recognize and coordinate dependencies of multiple cross-functional projects, ensuring coordination occurs early and often.
• Establish, maintain, and communicate plans for associated multiple cross-functional projects.
• Communicate on behalf of project managers when required.
• Hold team members accountable, set clear performance standards and goals, resolve performance issues, and keep teams engaged and on task.
• Coach scrum teams and peers on scrum best practices.
• Introduce new initiatives or concepts to the project teams.
• Can represent product development in audits and is able to demonstrate traceability and compliance with written procedures for all product development efforts and releases.
• Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

Skills Needed:

• Ability to lead meetings, set action items, and keep owners accountable for their action items
• Skilled at building detailed plans for software development projects, ensuring the relevant items, dependencies, and risks are identified, even with limited input.
• Very good written and verbal communication skills.
• Very good at understanding and communicating technical topics and issues at a high level.
• Outstanding organizational skills including ability to prioritize tasks efficiently with high level of attention to detail
• A problem solver who seeks out solutions instead of waiting for solutions.
• Team player with the ability to influence and negotiate.
• Passionate about seeking ways to improve processes.
• Ability to deal with multiple projects and deadlines.
• Able to get work done with general instructions.
• Occasionally requires training and substantial supervision to be able to execute tasks.
• Normally receives general instructions on routine work, detailed instructions on new projects or assignments.

Education & Experience

• A university degree with strong preference towards a software engineering background.
• Minimum of 6 years experience with strong preference towards experience in a software and medical industry. Or an advanced degree with minimum 4 years experience.
• Understanding of and experience with Agile development at scale.
• Experience with regulated SaaS products and/or software-as-a-medical-device (SAMD) preferred.
• Experience working with JIRA preferred.

A reasonable estimate of the yearly base compensation range is $120,000-$176,301, cash bonus, and stock options.