What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Technical Project Manager position at Photon?
Job Description
As a Technical Program Manager, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, make tradeoffs, and balance business needs versus technical constraints. You will have the ability to take large, complex programs and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional and technical user stories, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner.
- Own the success of the program, including developing and managing partner relationships to expand the impact of the program.
- Lead planning, execution, and delivery of projects across multiple teams, breaking down ambiguous science and engineering goals into manageable milestones, writing functional specifications, creating system design, solving complex technical problems, interfacing with multiple teams, and delivering solutions in a successful, agile, and timely manner.
- Own communication for delivery across these projects with senior leadership and across partner organizations, owning review documents, newsletters, wiki page development, and communicating risks with mitigation plans.
- Effectively communicate with cross-functional technical architects and leads on technical approach, dependencies, and constraints.
- Anticipate bottlenecks and balance business needs versus technical constraints to move these projects forward quickly.
- Manage resource allocation for all projects across all technical teams and keep the overall program roadmap balanced.
Basic Qualifications
- 7 years of working directly with engineering teams experience.
- 5 years of technical product or program management experience.
- 3 years of software development experience.
- 5 years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience.
- 5 years of experience working in an agile and/or scrum environment.
- Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing projects across cross-functional teams, building sustainable processes, and coordinating release schedules.
- Experience defining KPIs/SLAs used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership.
