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CrowdStrike · 2 days ago

Director, Program Management - Engineering Supporting Cloud Security, Identity Protection and Data Security (Remote, East Coast)

Austin, TX

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

13+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Serve as the primary point of contact for Senior Leadership in your areas of responsibility, owning proactive communications and consistent progress updates.

Partnering and direct facilitation with teams at all levels; from in the weeds with developers on projects to summations and process strategy at the executive level.

Demonstrates expert level ability to learn and communicate technical context and align it with business objectives to help drive project deliverables, resources, and timelines.

Creating and driving the roadmap schedule, from long term planning (more than a year) to quarterly and project level execution; working with dev management task assignments, and managing schedule progress; from large phases through to detailed tasks, including understanding and managing dependencies within and across Product Groups.

Expert ability to coordinate and optimize the efforts of cross-functional teams, including across conflicting product revenue streams; identifying risks and proactively mitigating them.

Providing problem-solving leadership with an expert ability to navigate dynamic and conflicting opinions; holding leadership teams accountable for timely decisions and follow through; escalating when needed.

Collaborating with staff and management of multiple worldwide business units (including subject matter experts, product management, design teams, and technology teams) to clearly identify, explain, and communicate their project involvement, project goals, expectations, and tasks.

Proactively tracking the status of project activities and ensuring that schedules and priorities are being met.

Ensuring critical issues are proactively identified, tracked through resolution, and escalated if necessary.

Proactively managing daily/weekly project communication and status reporting.

Leading Scrum meetings and creates and follows up on meeting minutes/action items.

Flexibly working across timezones to help coordinate and follow up on work.

Willingness to travel both locally and internationally several times a quarter (if/when needed).

Expert ability to understand the deep technologies and cross dependencies of projects in order to determine where program management support is most needed by your teams.

Ability to engage in a participative style of management, providing guidance to direct reports on expectations, implementation best practices and next steps, while allowing them space to determine a course of action and execute.

Promotes employee empowerment by actively involving the team members in the direction of the program management team, product groups, and the business as a whole.

Demonstrates expert judgment; understanding work expected at your level vs work that can be delegated or shared (does not lead via delegation).

Actively encourages each team member to find their own self-direction (based on guidance) and to be intrinsically motivated rather than externally motivated.

Ability and willingness to make time for team members (weekly 1:1s, ad-hoc syncs) while supporting a program of projects and PG leadership teams.

Engages in a collaborative and open feedback model (giving and receiving honest feedback in a constructive manner).

Prioritizes honesty, trust and transparency at all times; even when speaking truthfully is difficult.

Models ideal behavior and best practices for your direct reports by being an individual contributor as well as a people manager.

Understands where practices and policies must be aligned with the group vs where there is flexibility for outliers, and ensures adherence and can provide expert level guidance so teams can operationalize flexibility.

Qualification

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JiraProgram ManagementAgile/ScrumSoftware Development LifecycleCloud TechnologiesPeople ManagementProblem-Solving LeadershipCross-Functional Collaboration

Required

Must be fully proficient in the use of Jira (writing complex JQL queries, building rich filters, boards/ticket creation and facilitation).

13+ years of experience working in a program/project management capacity for software development.

7+ years of experience in people management (+ in relation to support of software development teams).

Experience with/exposure to large scale platforms (cloud technologies), complex inter-dependent technologies.

Seasoned team coach that excels at managing and alleviating (instead of running from) persistent obstacles.

Expert level experience with Software Development Lifecycle and Project Management Methodologies, specifically Agile/Scrum.

Experience owning multiple programs/ portfolios of products/features, scoping requirements, planning milestones, and being an active resource for technical teams.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required (drafts require little feedback).

Must enjoy consensus-driven environments where collaboration, honest and open communications are paramount.

Must work effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team.

Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail, and have the ability to make logical, timely decisions.

Excel at proactively and independently driving results in small team environments.

Excel at async managing up in remote environments (does not wait for 1:1s to share information; keeps manager informed prior to, during, and after work is completed).

Understands remote environment work challenges and excels.

Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment.

Excellent ability to extrapolate context from complex technical conversations, and provide teams with valuable summations around action items and next steps.

Preferred

Experience with Scaled Agile Framework methodology a plus.

Company

CrowdStrike

Glassdoor

4.2

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity technology firm that provides cloud-delivered protection for cloud workloads, identity, and data.

Founded in 2011

Sunnyvale, California, USA

5001-10000 employees

http://www.crowdstrike.com

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