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Principal Engineering Program Manager
Company | Adobe |
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Location | San Jose, CA, USA |
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Salary | $143200 – $269900 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Master’s |
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Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 10+ years of technical program management experience in a relevant field, leading cross-functional projects to deliver high quality products in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven track record of delivering large-scale Enterprise Software and/or Cloud Software initiatives across engineering organizations through all stages of the software development lifecycle.
- Be a motivated self-starter who can operate in ambiguous conditions and maintains flexibility to adapt to changing conditions and varying priorities.
- Have high attention to detail and strong analytical thinking; commonly uses metrics and data to come up with tactical recommendations and key process improvements.
- Have strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to engage with collaborators at all levels.
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior leaders to build strategic roadmaps, transform them into execution plans, and deliver against business objectives.
- Lead and collaborate with global, cross-functional teams to create plans that communicate requirements, determine scope, highlight risks, and build schedules that ensures successful delivery.
- Lead cross-functional teams worldwide through project execution, ensuring timely delivery of product features with clear communication updates.
- Coordinate multiple concurrent programs, varying in size/scope/complexity, spanning across several different teams, roles and organizations.
- Tactically identify potential risks, build mitigation plans, and engage the right partners to remove obstacles to success.
- Build and release status reports including executive-level presentations that can be consumed at various levels of the organization.
- Maintain a deep, technical end-to-end understanding of the solution being built, its upstream and downstream dependencies and impacts, and critical changes needed to support the initiative.
- Coach and mentor junior team members across the program and engineering organization to grow our leadership bench.
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters or equivalent experience in computer science or engineering with applied engineering background strongly preferred.
- Experience in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies preferred.
- PMP, CSM, Agile Training preferred.