Senior Staff Technical Program Manager

Team & Role

As a member of the Product Engineering Technical Program Management team, you will be instrumental in delivering some of the most innovative and cutting-edge technologies to market. We are truly a team, supporting each other and celebrating our successes! 

What you get to do in this role:

• Work side-by side with business, product, and technology leaders on high-visibility, mission-critical, large and complex programs, and drive them from original concept through final implementation
• Help develop the overall prioritization, milestones, deliverables, and success criteria for your programs
• Help manage risks and dependencies and escalate impediments to meet program objectives
• Provide transparent and forthright communications with all areas affected by your programs including cross-functional stakeholders, business sponsors and vendors; simplify complex issues into a crisp, actionable executive-level status
• Generate new data needs and requirements to provide actionable insights to senior leadership
• Ensure adherence to processes, quality standards, and deliverables so that your programs are delivered with machine-like predictability
• Plan and facilitate collaboration from executive-level meetings and large cross-functional events to the day-to-day activities as required
• Provide a proactive, strategic perspective on improvements to the business, SDLC, or infrastructure processes
• Create and maintain process documentation where needed to promote best practices and leverage lessons learned
• Analyze trends and data and create reports and dashboards to provide actionable insights to senior leadership
• Host regular release meetings & executive read-outs; deliver crisp status updates to all stakeholders and senior leadership
• (optional) Deliver hands-on coaching of individual scrum teams in all aspects of scrum - daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, workshops etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on and managing large projects or programs with cross-functional teams.
• PMI-ACP, Agile, or scaled agile certifications (SAFe SPC or RTE) and experience leading and coaching teams and release trains in scaled agile principles and practices
• Ability to build strong, trusting relationships with leaders, stakeholders, product management, engineering teams, and cross-functional development groups
• Excellent organizational skills to be able to coordinate complicated efforts and environments
• High emotional intelligence to effectively manage a diverse team working in different environments.
• Exceptional team building and team management skills, including interpersonal skills, conflict resolution and negotiation, consensus building, negotiation, and persuasion skills
• Critical thinking skills needed to solve difficult and sometimes ambiguous problems
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Agile lifecycle management tools, online whiteboard and collaboration platforms, and similar applications
• Large scale Enterprise software experience  

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8+ years + a Master's degree; or equivalent experience
• SDLC experience in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies  

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Not sure if you meet every qualification? We still encourage you to apply! We value inclusivity, welcoming candidates from diverse backgrounds, including non-traditional paths. Unique experiences enrich our team, and the willingness to dream big makes you an exceptional candidate!

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Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements. 

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