Friday 1 August 2014

Senior Technical Program Manager | LinkedIn | Mountain View, California


Senior Technical Program Manager | LinkedIn | Mountain View, California


Senior Technical Program Manager

LinkedIn - Mountain View, California

Posted 2 days ago
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Agile Technical Program Manager -Mountain View, CA

LinkedIn is looking for an Agile leader to work within LinkedIn's Application Operations program management team.  The right candidate will have demonstrated solid leadership in leading teams and programs to deliver successful outcomes.

This candidate is expected to perform using best practices for initiating, planning, and executing intermediate-to-large scale, cross functional, and company-wide critical programs.

The ideal candidate will have an excellent balance of people, organizational, and technical skills, and can execute and deliver successfully in situations where authority is not a given. Interaction and leadership across functional lines is essential.

At this level of professional development, the candidate will be able to concisely articulate all of the interactions and factors that contribute to the final outcome.



Responsibilities:

-    Comfortable interacting one-to-one with individual technical contributors, senior leaders, as well as coaching teams.
-    Helping operations teams go from fighting fires to avoiding them.
-    You will not only help teams be more efficient, you will see the big picture and ensure processes scale appropriately with the company.
-    Create a collaborative work environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, mastery, innovation, and learning
-    Manage and maintain project backlogs and ensure forward momentum with project execution
-    Leads efforts to resolve project conflicts and establish appropriate resolution paths
-    Manage dependencies between multiple projects
-    Mentors individuals in best practices for planning and execution
-    Develop strong partnerships with technology and business leaders
-    Assess and mitigate risk exposure
-    Manage resource planning

Requirements:

-    4 years of full time program management experience within an Operations or technical department
-    2+ years of direct experience with multiple Agile teams
-    Mastered Agile methods and practices through multiple teams (Scrum and Kanban)
-    Strong practical and advanced theoretical understanding of managing the life-cycle of large-scale programs and projects
-    Ability to manage multiple major concurrent projects
-    Strong communication skills; skilled at cross-functional and cross-organizational communication
-    Attention to detail
-    Strong experience with software engineering practices and familiarity with coding techniques
-    Ability to traverse both vertically and horizontally in a large organization
-    Successfully traverse tactical and strategic objectives
-    Mastery of planning and collaboration tools
-    BS minimum, in a technical field


http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18038561?trk=jserp_job_details_text


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