Senior Program Manager

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia is a Great Place to Work-Certified^TM company in India, is listed as one of the world’s top software companies by The Software Report, and is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

We are looking for a Program Manager to lead the continuous delivery of Acquia’s industry-leading Cloud and SaaS products using Agile processes. You will report to the Director of R&D PMO, and drive programs through the entire project lifecycle. You will also have responsibility and authority for managing milestones, schedules and processes required to track and deliver the products, and communicating and mitigating risks in the context of time-to-market requirements.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a strong program leader to manage a motivated cross-functional team, make data-driven decisions, and be a significant contributor to Acquia’s success. Your passion for creating reliable and repeatable systems, critical thinking, in-depth technical and business acumen, exceptional project management, communication and interpersonal skills will motivate our teams and establish trust across cross-functional and cross-organizational stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategy to align with business priorities: Organize programs and activities in accordance with the mission and goals of the organization. Create new programs based on opportunity areas that support the organization's objectives.
• Drive the programs product lifecycle: Work closely with product managers, product owners, software engineering managers, design leads, software engineers, QA, DevOps, operations managers, support and other critical stakeholders to get high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle (build, test and release on time) as agilely as possible.
• Manage schedules and budgets of multi track programs: Clarify and drive commitments and priorities, establish and maintain clear chains of accountability, and clearly communicate to stakeholders.
• Address bottlenecks and risks: Provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and encourage risk-taking behavior to maximize business benefit.
• Understand release interdependencies and look for areas to improve: Drive towards solutions for delivering complex, multi-tiered cloud systems.
• Take responsibility and ownership: Own release schedules and milestones, keeping up the high momentum of our fast-paced environment.
• Partner with multiple teams: Reconcile the priorities of multiple cross-functional teams to ensure the timely delivery of products, and establish trust across all stakeholders.

Key requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of project management experience in the technology industry 
• Program management experience preferred
• Experience leading large global project teams
• Excellent written and verbal skills; maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, and leadership skills
• Familiarity with Agile processes and the software development lifecycle
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate and lead cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated analytical skills
• Experience overseeing and creating processes
• Familiarity with or desire to learn about Cloud technologies, distributed systems, and the latest trends in networking, storage, and data centers
• Passion to improve processes, increase velocity, and promote empathetic, collaborative relationships a must

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more!

Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.