Program Manager

Needs:

• Strong product mindset with the ability to support day-to-day operational execution
• Serve as the primary liaison between you and the business, helping drive alignment and execution across initiatives
• This individual should understand product roadmaps and features, proactively manage communication, drive executive readouts, and ensure cross-functional alignment.

Challenges to Own and Solve:

• Operate across multiple workstreams/portfolios, bring teams together, and provide program-level leadership with a strong product mindset.
• Limited visibility across teams and workstreams.
• Current heavy reliance on Head of Product for delivery coordination and communication.
• Lack of proactive status updates and executive readouts.
• Minimal collaboration between Product and Engineering, resulting in Product having little visibility into engineering efforts or upcoming releases.
• No centralized release calendar or portfolio-level delivery governance.

Ideal background:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience of 8–12 years of progressive project or program management experience, including at least 3–5 years in a delivery leadership role.
• Proven success managing multiple concurrent projects or programs with distributed teams and complex dependencies.
• Strong understanding of delivery methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches.
• Proficiency in project management and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Asana, or similar).
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills across technical and business audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop high-performing teams.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and P&L management preferred.
• Comfort working remotely or managing your own schedule
• Ability to work in a very fast-paced environment while managing multiple responsibilities
• Performs tasks with little supervision and is self-motivated and self-directed