KinderCare Learning Companies · 5 hours ago
Principal Project Manager - Remote Opportunity
Portland, OR
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
10+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Own successful delivery of large, high impact and highly cross-functional strategic initiatives while simultaneously and accurately tracking a set of smaller projects within product teams.
Create program governance structures that empower teams to achieve successful outcomes.
Manage executive and execution governance, program status reporting and Sr. Leader escalations & communications.
Define multi-org product and operational standards, track & reports program OKRs, dashboards, and processes.
Drive strategic cross-functional planning, leading discovery, and prioritization by closely partnering with product managers, Scrum leads and engineering leads to develop program plans that include product and execution roadmaps, dependency tracking, and capacity plans.
Facilitate Intake, prioritization, Monthly budget reviews, Annual and Quarterly planning, and weekly Scrum-of-Scrum between Product, Engineering, and partner teams across the enterprise.
Drive continuous improvement across multi-org program teams enabling product and operational excellence focused on value delivery and benefits realization.
Influence program outcomes to align with KinderCare’s IT, Product Management & Corporate strategy.
Establish value framework and instrumentation to track & report value delivery, OKR and program metrics, communicate across all levels of leadership across the enterprise to ensure deliverables meet strategic objectives of program and enterprise.
Establish strong relationships with key stakeholders across Sr. Leadership team, Field Operations, Product Management, Engineering, UX, Marketing, Finance, HR, and Corporate Strategy & Development. Develop a close working relationship with all stakeholders to ensure that the team is focused on the highest priority outcomes and is helping deliver the most value to our field and families.
Develop common mechanisms for program status reporting and escalation, for keeping key stakeholders informed on the progress, dependencies risks, and issues.
10+ years of Program/Project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience.
Experience managing projects across multiple engineering teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating field releases.
Working experience in Agile and PDLC. Expert in program and project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, etc.)
Experience defining KPI's/OKR’s used to drive multi-million-dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership.
Ability to quickly adapt to faster pace, shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
Experience communicating and representing work to senior leadership and framing discussions to gain valuable feedback and experience working with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products.
Requires slide deck preparation and strong presentation skills.
Results-driven professional with strong tactical skills and a focus on execution
Ability to influence and make some project decisions without authority.
Highly analytical, fact driven, and is process-oriented with high attention to detail.
Lean Six Sigma experience a plus.
Ability and appetite to lead and engage diverse and equitable teams.
Qualification
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Own successful delivery of large, high impact and highly cross-functional strategic initiatives while simultaneously and accurately tracking a set of smaller projects within product teams.
Create program governance structures that empower teams to achieve successful outcomes.
Manage executive and execution governance, program status reporting and Sr. Leader escalations & communications.
Define multi-org product and operational standards, track & reports program OKRs, dashboards, and processes.
Drive strategic cross-functional planning, leading discovery, and prioritization by closely partnering with product managers, Scrum leads and engineering leads to develop program plans that include product and execution roadmaps, dependency tracking, and capacity plans.
Facilitate Intake, prioritization, Monthly budget reviews, Annual and Quarterly planning, and weekly Scrum-of-Scrum between Product, Engineering, and partner teams across the enterprise.
Drive continuous improvement across multi-org program teams enabling product and operational excellence focused on value delivery and benefits realization.
Influence program outcomes to align with KinderCare’s IT, Product Management & Corporate strategy.
Establish value framework and instrumentation to track & report value delivery, OKR and program metrics, communicate across all levels of leadership across the enterprise to ensure deliverables meet strategic objectives of program and enterprise.
Establish strong relationships with key stakeholders across Sr. Leadership team, Field Operations, Product Management, Engineering, UX, Marketing, Finance, HR, and Corporate Strategy & Development. Develop a close working relationship with all stakeholders to ensure that the team is focused on the highest priority outcomes and is helping deliver the most value to our field and families.
Develop common mechanisms for program status reporting and escalation, for keeping key stakeholders informed on the progress, dependencies risks, and issues.
10+ years of Program/Project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience.
Experience managing projects across multiple engineering teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating field releases.
Working experience in Agile and PDLC. Expert in program and project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, etc.)
Experience defining KPI's/OKR’s used to drive multi-million-dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership.
Ability to quickly adapt to faster pace, shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
Experience communicating and representing work to senior leadership and framing discussions to gain valuable feedback and experience working with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products.
Project Management certification(s) required (PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP etc.)
Requires slide deck preparation and strong presentation skills.
Results-driven professional with strong tactical skills and a focus on execution.
Ability to influence and make some project decisions without authority.
Highly analytical, fact driven, and is process-oriented with high attention to detail.
Preferred
Lean Six Sigma experience a plus.
Ability and appetite to lead and engage diverse and equitable teams.
Benefits
Discounted child care benefits
Medical, dental, and vision benefits for your family (and pets, too!)
Employee assistance programs
Access to health and wellness programs
Unlimited paid time off
Discounts for work necessities, such as cell phones
Company
KinderCare Learning Companies
KinderCare Learning Companies At KinderCare, we help children explore their limitless potential – giving their families the freedom and flexibility to do the same.
10,001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Tom Wyatt
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Tony Amandi
EVP, CFO
Recent News
2022-04-30
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