Engineering Program Manager

Engineering Program Management

Knowledge & Skills:

• Experience: 3-6 years
  Exhibits a high degree of autonomy, is determined, and should be a go-getter with the ability to multitask and stay on top of a lot of things simultaneously
• Good at Vibe coding and automating PgM workflows
• Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills.
• Have a good understanding of Gen AI tech stack.
• Leads by example. Sets high standards & communicates expectations of high achievement to others.
• Establishes credibility with peers and senior managers and is a driving force for change across the organization.
• Ability to tie team objectives back to the broader organizational objectives and goals.
• Should have good knowledge of a software product development lifecycle. 
• Knowledge of agile development techniques and project management tools.
• Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Ability to communicate in a geographically distributed environment with diverse collaborators and to operate in ambiguous situations while bringing clarity.

 

Some Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate all aspects of the business for development and release of technologies, products, features & functions in Firefly organisation.
• Build the project schedule, including putting together the framework and identifying dependencies—negotiating with 3rd parties/internal teams. 
• Understand and assess critical paths and dependencies for delivering and shipping products / services and facilitate discussions between product/client teams, product management and engineering. 
• Effectively negotiate, persuade and motivate extended project teams & senior management across BUs, provide justifiable proposals and recommendations, and clearly outline courses of action to follow.
• Assess future challenges on projects and initiatives and mobilize immediate and extended team members to take action, proactively addressing issues. 
• Initiate, develop and effectively completes plans for change (new process, tool, etc) across multiple teams.
• Identify, track, monitor and communicate project-related issues, scope changes, variances and contingencies arising during project implementation.
• Implement process improvements, including identifying the problem areas and process improvements – some cross-product or cross-BU focus.
• Bring up and resolve issues in a timely manner, including problems that impact multiple projects. Propose workable solutions to complex problems while considering the needs of all groups that are impacted. 
• Manage multiple competing projects or tasks independently, effectively balancing work between critical short term issues with longer term strategic goals. 
• Leverage data to drive key decisions and changes in the team
• Leverage automation wherever possible for the recurring tasks
• Evaluate existing processes and procedures. Make recommendations and drives process improvement and adoption of best practices (processes, tools, etc) to improve team efficiency and effectiveness 

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Experience Level

Senior Level