Program Manager/ Lead Technology Project Manager

Title: Sr. Program Manager/ Lead Technology Project Manager
Location: Tue-Thur, Hybrid onsite in Dublin, CA
Duration: 6+ Months Contract
Client: Ross Stores
Visa: TN
Interview Mode: Video

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

Need Genuine LinkedIn- NO RECENT OR MULTIPLE LINKEDIN

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Must have full educational details with University Name and year of completion in resume.

WITHOUT ABOVE MENTIONED PREREQUISITE RESUME WILL BE DEEMED AS FAKE.

Job Description:   

·                Experience with mobile application projects from the IT side

• Ideally retail experience

·                Not a stranger to AI

·                React Native experience - enough to contribute informed perspective to the platform decision

·                Budget, vendor-spend, and financial tracking experience

• Strong project/program management skills

o        Deeply organized

• • Ability to come up with a detailed plan with milestones
  • Someone who can proactively work with other groups to understand their tasks and drive them to completion
  • Someone who is not just an order taker, but someone who will question and push back if they think things could be done differently

·                Someone who can present status at an executive level – likely up to CIO, maybe higher

·                Senior-level PM/program management capability appropriate for a highly visible initiative. 

·                Exceptional communication skills and ability to operate effectively with senior/executive leadership, including CIO-level conversations and potentially CEO-level preparation/interactions. 

·                Proactive leadership: not an order taker; able to independently identify gaps, make recommendations and drive work forward.

·                Strong technical-program fluency: understands when API/integration, security, UI, testing, backend/data and test-data considerations enter the lifecycle. Coding ability is not required. 

·                Cross-functional coordination: capable of driving dependencies among engineering/API, integrations, security, architecture, technical leadership, vendors and business stakeholders.

·                Hands-on project management: personally develops project plans, milestones and associated detailed PM work rather than delegating it to an analyst.

·                Ability to enter a very early-stage program and help drive vendor selection, planning and design/architecture coordination.

Ideal candidate profile

Think senior technical program leader who still likes doing the work, rather than a high-level portfolio PM.

The strongest profile would show:

•            Led a customer-facing application or similarly complex enterprise technology initiative from early planning through delivery.

•            Strong evidence of taking an undefined initiative and creating the roadmap, milestones, dependencies and governance necessary to move it forward.

•            Experience coordinating application engineering, APIs, integrations, architecture, testing/data and security teams.

•            Enough mobile knowledge to challenge assumptions and identify missing workstreams, without presenting themselves as the solution architect or developer.

•            Examples of driving vendors and internal engineering teams simultaneously.

•            Executive communication experience, paired with willingness to personally maintain the project plan and chase dependencies.

•            Proactive behavior: can explain what they discovered, what they recommended and what they drove, rather than only describing meetings they facilitated.