Senior Information Technology Project Manager

Location: 3401 North Ashton Blvd Lehi, UT

Duration: 7 Months

The Vivint Technology (VT) Cross-functional Program Manager for Revenue organization within VT to work with business stakeholders, VT product managers and VT engineers to focus on new strategic capabilities based on Core Sales Architecture to support Revenue Synergies.

VT Program Managers are responsible for managing programs through the full program life cycle including planning, prioritizing, scoping, requirements elicitation, resourcing, development, testing, and deployment. The VT Program Manager interfaces with individual contributors through director-level resources but will interact with all levels of technology and business leadership.

The ideal candidate is someone who has demonstrated success as a program manager in technology, is passionate about working with our business partners and engineers and improving our processes and tools, and is highly organized, motivated and creative. An understanding of customer experience is a plus.

Who you are

• Passionate about quality: You know what it takes to deliver a quality, sustainable product, and you are passionate about high-quality software development and the technology and knowledge that supports it.

• Essentialist: Your role model how to distill a problem to its essence, to make it "as simple as possible, but no simpler." You know how to eliminate the decorative to deliver a single powerful idea.

• Design focused: You sweat the details to bring a beautiful elegance to everything you put your name to.

• Reliable: You pride yourself in developing a sense of reliability in outcomes, timelines and goals expectations that you set for yourself and your team. Your product and team depend on it.

• Team player: You enjoy collaborating with, learning from, and teaching others so we all become better. You assume good intent in others, and actively do your part to make a positive work environment.

• You go confidently: You take risks and trust your instinct to elevate the creativity and possibilities of everything you put your name to.

What you’ll do

• Drive relevant program management deliverables and facilitate effective user/customer conversations

• Transform requirements into feature specs /user stories

• Establish story acceptance criteria for the engineering team

• Actively address ambiguity and change in the product backlog

• Assist in planning and vision refinement sessions with business and engineering teams

• Present convincingly to executives, partners, and users/customers

• Manage product roadmap based on product vision

Primary Responsibilities:

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand and contribute to the vision and roadmap with a constant eye on continuous delivery of value and engineering action

• Own and manage partner relationships for specific engagements

• Work closely with cross-functional teams of business analysts, designers, data engineers and QA to ensure delivery against product roadmap

• Build and maintain relationships across organizations, with teams, and individuals

• Prioritize development items to align with the roadmap

• Manage releases to ensure delivery, coordinating milestones across teams

• Identify risks, issues, and problems and escalate as appropriate, proposing mitigation plans to overcome obstacles

Required Skills, Experience & Education:

• Strong meeting facilitation, communication, and presentation skills

• Ability to clearly communicate across levels of the organization and departments in writing, orally and interpersonally

• Effective problem solving and analytical skills

• Proven ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines

• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and manage priorities

• Effective planning and execution skills – ability to define and articulate a strong vision, create an actionable roadmap, and drive the team to execute

• Lead by influence without direct authority

• Effective storytelling, presentation skills. You’re able to define a plan and rally the team behind it

• Decisive, and able to eloquently defend your decisions

Preferred Skills, Experience & Education:

• CAPM, PMP, PRINCE2, CSM

• Experience using Smartsheet

• Experience with Jira and Confluence

• Microsoft Office 365 (i.e., PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, Outlook)

What you need to succeed:

• 5 years of technical program management

• Ability to influence executive and senior level leaders on product vision, road map and work backlog priorities and trade-offs

• Effective communication with business partners and remote team members is mandatory

• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle and agile development methodologies

• Articulate in documenting product requirements, writing functional specs and user stories

• Ability to present convincingly to executives, partners, and users/customers

• Ability to work with several internal and external technology partners and integrate input into core service technical and product strategy

• Ability to manage issue resolution and mitigate risk on the product roadmap

• Well versed in defining roadmaps and delivering with teams that employ agile software development methodologies

• The ability to build credibility and trust with both team members and senior management

• Experience with Project, Program and Portfolio Management a plus

• Excellent presentation oral and written communication skills

• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills

• Adept at problem solving and driving the team towards solutions

• Ability to defuse tension among project team, should it arise

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial

• Must possess critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making skills

• Ability to tolerate stress

• Show deep commitment to and empathy for the customer – design-thinking skills a plus

• Open minded, positive attitude and enjoy working in fun, high energy and fast-paced environment.

About US Tech Solutions:

• US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.
• US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Recruiter Details:

• Name: Raviteja Yarram
• Email: raviteja.y@ustechsolutionsinc.com
• Internal I'd: 25-53328