Program Manager

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Program Manager for a contract assignment with one of our premier SaaS clients. This role is hybrid in San Jose, CA.

Responsibilities :

• Partner with senior leaders to build strategic roadmaps, transform it into execution plans and deliver against business objectives.
• Performs project planning to establish an overall project plan, including key milestones, and drives progress to achieve project plan within time and budget constraints.
• Understand and coordinate sequencing of projects to accomplish progress.
• Understands and assesses critical paths and dependencies for delivering projects and facilitates discussions between project teams, product management and engineering.
• Performs risk management duties by identifying and analyzing risks, developing risk management controls and contingency plans to help increase probability of positive events for the project.
• Aggregates, organizes, and synthesizes program and project information in order to communicate with extended team and management
• Resolve misalignments across requirements, priorities, and schedule.
• Evaluates existing processes and procedures. Makes recommendations and drives process improvement and adoption of best practices (processes, tools, etc) to improve team efficiency and effectiveness.
• Drive release management activities to ensure successful deployment of product updates.

Required Skills :

• 6+ years of relevant experience as a program manager in software, SaaS and/or related industry
• Solid experience in software development, ideally within distributed (global) teams
• Self-motivated and not afraid to tackle unknowns, demonstrates a strong bias to action
• Strong verbal, presentation, and written communication skills with the ability to appropriately communicate with the intended audience, especially executives
• Ability to manage in an environment with diverse partners
• Strong influencing and interpersonal skills, and ability to develop positive relationships
• Demonstrate a collaborative mindset
• Excellent documentation skills
• Quick learner and proactive in solving problems
• Experience leading transformation/improvement programs, define and establish program structure and governance frameworks

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .

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