Responsibility Summary:
• Own and accountable for product engineering functions, delivery milestones, risks, metrics, and status to stakeholders and executives.
• Lead planning, prioritization, and execution across multiple agile teams; manage interdependencies and delivery risks.
• Act as a trusted advisor (“Chief of Staff”) to Product Leadership, streamline communications, protect focus, and enable clear decisions.
• Continual strategy setting and evaluation of delivery team structure in alignment with firm need
• Build strong partnerships and relationships with Business, Product Team, QA, UX, PMO and Enterprise Architecture
• Drive intake from idea to backlog (Epics/Features)
• Enforce best practices in tooling and operations.
• Bring strong understanding of project / team financials, budget management & tracking
• Manage engineering team, mentor technical leads and engineers, set onboarding plans, and foster accountability and continuous improvement.
• Drive cross-product, cross-portfolio, and cross-program collaboration to address interdependencies, ensure high levels of engagement & stakeholder alignment
• Drive collaboration with project leader / Team Lead peers to model and influence best practices, share feedback, lessons learned.
• Establish onboarding plans for new resources, ensuring they have access to right tools, people and information for faster productivity
POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
• 5+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale projects with a high level of complexity
• 5+ years of product management experience or engineering/Technical lead
• Good understanding of one or more tech stacks such as microservices, Rest APIs, microservices (Spring Boot / Java), React, Cloud (Azure preferred), Finance ERP Systems (such as PeopleSoft, Oracle Fusion Cloud, Coupa, and OneStream)
• Broad understanding of technical delivery aspects such as SDLC, DevOps, SRE, Quality Engineering
• Working understanding of Agile methodologies such as Agile, Kanban, SAFe, or equivalent
• Ability to build strong relationships with technical, product, and business stakeholders
• Previous project management and leadership experience preferred.
• A bachelor''s degree is preferred; MBA or graduate degree a plus.
• Project management certification (PMP) and Agile certification a plus.
Additional Qualifications needed:
• Experience leading technical teams and mentoring project team members and technical leads.
• Experience in planning and execution of Agile Transformations will be a plus.
• Superior interpersonal and communication skills; effectively communicates with project team, other project leaders, multiple areas, divisions and outside vendors. Incorporates effective listening and collaboration skills.
• Superior presentation skills preferred.
• Superior organization and coordination skills.
• Ability to independently identify, prioritize, monitor, communicate, and/or resolve risks, issues or elements that can impact a product
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