Senior Technical Program Manager [Remote-US]

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Requirements:

• Twelve or more years project/program management or relevant experience
• Eight or more years of experience in software engineering product development
• Expert in developing and maintaining team harmony in a diverse environment and showing workplace resilience in the face of change and feedback.

Responsibilities:

• Bring order to chaos by building, implementing, and sustaining right-sized processes that empower the organization through clear workflows, communications, and reporting.
• Marshal delivery of the highest priority goals in the organization.
• Support organizational leaders in building effective goals (OKRs) and partner with cross-functional leads to break work into portfolios, programs, and workstreams (projects, kanban, etc.) to deliver goals.
• Ensure vertical and horizontal alignment and transparency at the appropriate level at the right time across all programs, projects, and services, including the executive level.
• Guarantee execution against the highest level goals by driving program and project teams to hit expected delivery goals (OKRs), and ensuring teams have effective and efficient ways of independent working. Facilitate governance across their teams, implement known governance processes and patterns, and manage complex escalations end-to-end, exhibiting best practice issue management independently and helping others navigate successful escalations.
• Drive organizational change across large teams through independent identification and execution of process improvements via a rigorous and thoughtful continuous improvement framework and organizational change management. Manage and simplify organizational change so it can be managed by less senior team members.
• Tackle volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous challenges by driving planning cycles and ensure clarity of goals (OKRs), schedules, milestones, and risks across your assigned areas of responsibility, which will include highly complex technical programs and projects. Provide program management direction within assigned programs, projects, and services, influencing organizational policies, best practices, and standards, ensuring alignment with Quanata OKRs and executive leadership.
• Collaborate effectively with all cross-functional colleagues and stakeholders and demonstrate workplace resilience against change, feedback, and challenges.
• Demonstrate technical understanding by planning and executing against technical engineering goals and product designs.
• Coach and mentor junior team members across Quanata Program Management core skills and knowledge areas.
• Other duties as assigned.