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GEICO · 2 months ago

Director Technical Program Manager

Chevy Chase, MD

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$154K/yr - $256K/yr

10+ years exp

GEICO is a leading insurance company that offers quality coverage to millions of customers. The Director Technical Program Manager acts as a strategic partner for the organization’s leadership, managing priorities and overseeing processes to ensure operational efficiency and effective communication across teams.

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Responsibilities

Collaborate with engineering and cross-functional teams to define program requirements, set priorities, and establish scope, including defining the roadmap and long-term strategy

Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and changes effectively by optimizing scope, schedule, and resources accordingly

Communicate to stakeholders effectively and proactively

Partner with cross-functional teams to drive technical analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-implementation phases

Define and track key metrics and quality and performance indicators, driving cross-functional execution of program deliverables

Proactively identify and analyze complex, long-term, critical problems with engineering leaders and stakeholders

Provide regular updates to senior leadership on project status, risks, and mitigation strategies

Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Qualification

Technical Program ManagementCross-functional CollaborationProject Management MethodologiesData-driven Decision MakingEngineering Program ManagementCommunication SkillsConflict ResolutionOrganizational SkillsCritical ThinkingAdaptability

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

10+ years of experience managing highly technical engineering programs or products at scale, from inception to implementation

8+ years of engineering or technical product / program management experience

Must be able to, with or without accommodation, perform the essential functions which include, but are not limited to seeing, hearing, typing and speaking

Must be able to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly

Must be able to use a PC

Must be able to follow complex instructions, resolve conflicts or facilitate conflict resolution, and have strong organization/priority setting skills

Must be able to multi-task

Must be able to learn and apply large amounts of technical and procedural information and follow processes that have been published

Must be able to communicate in a clear, concise, professional oral or written manner, to be understood by customers, clients, co-workers and other employees of the organization

Must be able to perform under pressure and stressful situations

Must be able to gather user needs, requirements, and defining large scale program scope accordingly

Must be able to operate autonomously across multiple teams & global regions, demonstrating critical thinking and thought leadership

Must be able to work with technical leadership to develop systems, solutions, and products

Must be able to utilize project management methodologies, tools (ADO), and best practices

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.

Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.

Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.

Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

Company

GEICO

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GEICO, Government Employees Insurance Company, has been providing affordable auto insurance since 1936. It is a sub-organization of Berkshire Hathaway.

Founded in 1936

Chase, Maryland, USA

10001+ employees