Edmentum · 2 days ago
Program Manager, Product
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Responsibilities
Define, deliver, integrate, and continuously improve the PMO 4 P's (Project Management, Portfolio Management, Process Management, and People-Centered Best Practices).
Develop operational frameworks, activities, and practices that align with the product vision and enable clear pathways to success. Provide appropriate tools and resources to support development teams.
Foster and champion strong strategic and operational partnerships across a product portfolio.
Program manage initiatives, products, and/or portfolios, enabling continuous value streams that deliver outcomes aligned to roadmaps. Partner closely with product, technology, and development leaders and teams throughout planning and execution.
Operationalize the strategy, roadmap, and overall project lifecycle for Product development initiatives.
Facilitate the creation, documentation, and evolution of product development workflows and dependency mapping.
Document and analyze risk deficiencies, risk events and incidents, including supporting root cause and lessons learned analysis efforts, to identify trends and improvement opportunities and recommendations.
Oversee program management of Product projects, enabling and optimizing continuous value streams that deliver outcomes aligned to Product strategy.
Approach complex business problems, aligning divergent stakeholder teams to a common plan.
Provide program and project analysis, status reports, and metrics to track the realization of expected benefits.
Maintain effective and seamless communication across senior leaders, stakeholders, teams, and vendors.
Additional duties as assigned.
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor's degree or higher in business, operations, education, organizational development, or related field
8 years of experience in SaaS; education technology and/or publishing experience preferred
6 years of experience in program and/or project management
4 years of experience in agile and waterfall-based development practices
PMP or PgMP Certification
Process improvement or change management certification or training
Strong knowledge of project management tools such as Smartsheet, Microsoft Project time tracking, etc
Experience with JIRA, Azure DevOps, and/or Confluence
Expert level proficiency with process mapping tools (Visio, Miro, Lucidchart, etc)
Proven experience in budget management
Proven experience managing programs, varying in complexity and size
Strong leadership, communication, collaboration, and team-building skills
Experience working with multiple vendors, including onshore and offshore
Exceptional writing, editing, communication, and presentation skills
Careful attention to detail
Strong creative and critical thinking skills
Exceptional organizational and time-management skills
Flexibility and willingness to learn
Positive and high-energy attitude
Proven ability to work in multi-faceted and fast-paced environment
Experience working on cross-functional teams
Experience working with virtual teams
Preferred
Education technology and/or publishing experience
Experience with virtual teams
Company
Edmentum
Edmentum provides online learning programs to drive student achievement for academic and career success.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$25M2020-12-01Acquired· by Vistria Group
2018-04-11Debt Financing· $25M
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