Product and Engineering Sr. Program Manager – Freelance [Remote]

Overview

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• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C – see notes below)
• LOCATION: Remote – United States and Canada only (TimeZone: EST | Partial overlap)
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $110 – $120/hr
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week – Long-term

THE OPPORTUNITY
Requirements
• Bachelor degree or master degree in business or related field
• 5-7 years of relevant work experience in a senior program management or business operations role, especially in a software development context, with… demonstrated ability to work independently, yet collaboratively
• Experience working in a cross-functional environment with product management, design, development, engineering, research and analytics
• Experience independently executing complex projects/programs in a change-oriented, fast-paced cross functional environment
• Superb self-management and self-organization. Highly competent in structuring your own and others’ focus and capacity on the vital few
• Excellent communication skills. Able to adapt communication for each audience and channel. Experience building executive level communication and assets
• Operational mindset. Experience creating and driving processes which smooth execution without creating undue burden. Ability to maintain order in times of ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Work courageously and proactively to define and contain complex problems, prioritize effectively, and deliver quickly
• Able to influence outcomes and people without relying on reporting lines or organizational hierarchy
• Employs an Agile and Lean approach to delivering value, and a growth mindset when adapting to change and managing complexity

What you’ll be working on:
The Product and Engineering Senior Program Manager role is an exciting opportunity to have widespread impact in the beating heart of our client, where their marketplace is evolved for the millions of their buyers and sellers visiting it daily.

The Product and Eng. Senior Program Manager role accelerates the delivery of important and urgent projects/programs that further the Objectives of the Product and Eng Org and their mission of Keeping Commerce Human.

Product and Eng Program Managers operate from the Product and Eng Strategy & Operations team in PSS, embedded in the org of their CPO and CTO. This team is liquid by design, it flows from priority to priority, contained to either buyer or seller facing initiatives, or internal platforms and tools initiatives. This role reports into the Sr Manager, Product and Engineering Program Management.

Project/programs that the Product and Eng Program Manager undertakes are both urgent and important for the Product and Eng Org, have a well-understood impact for their customer, involve multiple teams and functions, have a medium-high degree of software development complexity, and have an expected completion target. These criteria are validated by the S&O Director, CPO, CTO and their Leads before a Program Manager is assigned. When projects and programs are completed, the Product and Eng Sr Program Manager transitions to drive the outcomes and operations of new projects/programs awaiting delivery. Depending on the scope and intensity of a project/program, a Sr Program Manager will undertake between 1-3 at a time, but no more.

The role does not serve any one specific team or function, therefore it is not leveraged for ongoing operational support for teams or functions (e.g. like a department assistant, operations manager, or leave cover role etc). This means that the role is not tasked with e.g. helping a team set their OKRs, run their weekly Agile ceremonies, or improve onboarding for new hires.

A person in this role is expected to do the following:
First and foremost, you will always partner with a Sponsor whose role is accountable for the success of the project/program, while your role is responsible for its success. With their guidance and oversight, you will:
• Develop the strategy, objectives, prioritization and roadmap for the project/program and be an ambassador for them to the broader Product and Eng Org
• Create and maintain standards for collaboration and optimizing information flows for the program (what are the program’s objectives, why is it important, and when, where, how we meet, communicate, and decide)
• Establish and maintain a clear governance model to support effective decision-making and transparent information sharing between different contributing groups
• Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, in different functions
• Produce transparent and effective communication to stakeholders regarding program progress, flags and decisions throughout its lifecycle
• Identify, preempt and remove impediments to ensure objectives are achieved
• Facilitate and coordinate upstream/downstream dependencies when they inevitably occur
• Negotiate any changes in stakeholder and/or external party expectations in relation to the program’s strategy, goals, prioritization or roadmap
• Proactively identify gaps in the program’s operations, build scaffolding to fix them, and assess your practices to see if they’re suitably effective
• Zoom in and zoom out, to see how all the moving parts should tie together, and systemize them into a functioning program aligned to a single set of objectives
• When required, this role is expected to partner effectively with the Strategic Program Management team to accelerate the specific contributions of Product and Eng to our client’s company-level XFN and strategic programs

Interview Process:
• 45 minute screen with the HM
• 45 minute interview with Product & Engineering Sr. Program Manager
• 30 minute interview with Strategy & Operations Manager
• 30 minute interview with Data Enablement Team
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Braintrust Job ID: 5972
C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.
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