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Vivint · 12 hours ago

Program Manager

Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. The Program Manager will lead high performing teams in the Innovation group to deliver innovative products and services, focusing on managing full stack software programs.

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Responsibilities

Accountable for the plan, schedule and budget for your assigned programs and initiatives. Understand priorities and create clear plans to deliver. Communicate with stakeholders and partners while also managing the cross-program dependencies. Set and meet commitments. Set specific release dates and milestones with the team and keep them focused on those accountabilities while communicating needs for support or issues that put those at risk
Partner with engineering teams to deliver working solutions in software, products and systems. Set schedules and create strong execution plans to develop products and features to bring to market. Partner with the Product, Engineering, Supply Chain, QA & Release, external partners and Operations team to drive the program. Work across teams to review proposed scope and provide Level of Effort (LOE) estimates as well as suitable tradeoffs for quality and business risk
Create appropriate communications to update the business regularly on status, risks and support needed to be successful for the portfolio of programs. Provide weekly and monthly status updates communicating progress towards commitment in terms of scope, schedule, and cost
Lead the team to identify and document risks up front, manage and mitigate them and monitor residual risks and any issues that arise regularly. Track tasks and lead a culture of accountability in the team and across the business. Setup excellent change and risk management practices to keep work on track
Facilitate and chair relevant program meetings, participate in agile activities where appropriate, develop communications and deliver to stakeholders. Hold regular risk reviews and accountability tracking meetings. Work with stakeholders as risks and issues arise. Develop partner relationships and manage performance of partners relating to program delivery. Work with team to monitor and keep program on track or escalate risk and support needed as required. Using Jira to put together dashboards and reports to track and show velocity of team
Draw on professional experience of scheduling, risk and task tracking platforms (MS PROJECT, SMARTSHEETS, EXCEL, etc) as well as content and engineering tracking systems (e.g. JIRA, CONFLUENCE, SHAREPOINT, etc)
A bias to strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills will exist in assessing success in this role along with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment where change and pivots to priorities occur occasionally

Qualification

Program ManagementSoftware DeliveryProject Management CertificationAgile MethodologiesTeam LeadershipCommunication SkillsMulti-taskingNegotiation SkillsCollaboration SkillsProblem Solving

Required

Experience in software and hardware delivery for consumer devices or consumer markets
Team Leadership, ability to establish a leadership identity within the respective groups and overall stakeholder organizations and partners
Demonstrate the ability and track record of leading in project delivery and excellence in communication
Demonstrate passion to succeed, inspire and motivate the team
Strong negotiation skills as well as ability to facilitate informed and timely decisions and mediating tradeoffs with various groups to deliver a product on time and ready for market
Deliver clear, concise professional verbal and written communication that is appropriate to the situation and audience
Including commitment to transparency, and stakeholder-based communication
Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills, including an ability to clearly communicate with both business and technical audiences
Encourage participation & decision-making by all team members and effectively manage group dynamics
Min. 5+ years professional experience leading large programs, including hardware, mobile platform, embedded systems and cloud-based projects is highly desired
Hardware experience is not mandatory, but a clear aptitude and willingness to work with those domains is desired
Track record of leading others & positive change in project definition, project delivery, and process improvement
Working experience with project methodologies such as agile, scrum and sprint planning, and related hardware development processes or framework awareness
Past success in creating high performance teams, inspiring and empowering them to achieve results
“Owner's attitude”, including a willingness to tackle complex problems through to solution
Ability to work both independently and cross-function with minimal supervision
Ability to multi-task priorities and initiatives

Preferred

Bachelors' degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field with formal project management training (PMP, CSM or similar qualifications), and SAFe certification highly preferred
Strong preference for experience with devices, consumer electronics, manufacturing and consumer facing hardware, software and mobile products

Benefits

Daily lunch and drinks on site
Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming tables
Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline
401(k) + Employer Match
Employee Resource Groups

Company

Vivint offers an integrated smart home system along with in-home consultation, professional installation, monitoring, and support.

H1B Sponsorship

Vivint has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (10)
2024 (20)
2023 (19)
2022 (26)
2021 (20)
2020 (24)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$1.27B
Key Investors
Goldman Sachs
2022-12-06Acquired
2020-01-21Post Ipo Equity· $488M
2020-01-21IPO

Leadership Team

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Todd Pedersen
CEO and Founder
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Brandon Bunker
Vice President of Artificial Intelligence
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