Agile Program Manager - Irvine, CA (Hybrid) - Only Locals

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Role: Agile Program Manager

Location: Irvine, CA - Hybrid (Min 3 days a week) - Local candidates preferred

Duration: Long-term

Seeking experienced Agile program management professionals who can leverage their experience to lead the Program delivery with a lean-agile mindset. They must be quick learners and love challenging themselves to raise the bar constantly. This opportunity requires strong problem-solving skills, an aptitude for team leadership and effective communication and collaboration across stakeholders as they deliver efficient, well-designed, and sophisticated software systems for a positive user experience.

• A Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science/Engineering is required.
• Preferred: an MBA (or equivalent) from a top-tier institution or equivalent business experience.
• 10 years of demonstrated experience in combined program and project management delivery.
• Hands-on experience implementing enterprise-level software applications in a fast-paced environment with an ability to manage multiple functional areas simultaneously
• Experience leading large cross-functional teams and driving consensus among colleagues; the ability to lead, motivate, influence, and drive results in a highly matrixed environment is essential.
• Demonstrated strong leadership and have led program team members.
• Relationship management experience within an enterprise globally, among executives, customers, and staff; as well as externally with vendors and business partners as required.
• Experience in evaluating a broad range of internal and external factors when solving problems and making decisions; prioritizes team efforts to support critical, business growth-driven initiatives
• Complex problem resolution and ability to merge diverse technology agendas into a cohesive, integrated digital and eCommerce solution by influencing key technology resources.
• Ability to conduct and interpret qualitative and quantitative analysis and problem-solving skills, and show independent judgment and creative problem-solving techniques in a highly complex environment.
• Establish relevant and comprehensive program performance-related metrics that highlight not only the overall health of the project
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to maintain alignment toward program milestones.
• Drive process improvement to increase team efficiency. Curate internal training content and process documentation to keep teams aligned on standard operating procedures, guardrails, and best practices.
• Handling aspects of technical projects for their organization, responsible for initiating programs, following their progress, and serving as support providers in case issues arise.
• Manage Portfolio and program with constant communication with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement.
• Track project performance across scope, schedule, budget, and benefits realization.
• Maintain the enterprise project portfolio dashboard and provide insights to leadership.
• Support portfolio planning, prioritization, and resource allocation.
• Prince2/PMP Certification required
• Agile certification and understanding of SAFe methodologies required
  
  

Skills

Mandatory Skills: Project Governance, Project Planning