Principal Program Manager - Product Operations (East Coast Based)

BMC Software; United States; Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

BMC Software, United States-based with a strong East Coast preference, is seeking a Principal Program Manager, Product Operations to own the DBA product operating model from ideation to launch. You will manage release calendars, milestone reviews, and planning for Control-M SaaS and on‑premises, coordinating with teams in the US and Israel.

By year one, you will ensure every idea has a clear status and rationale, maintain inputs for QPRs, and drive cross-functional execution across engineering,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product operations, program management, or product management.
• Experience with B2B software, SaaS and on-premises products.
• Experience running quarterly planning with engineering (PI planning).
• Ability to build and enforce operating metrics and roadmaps.
• Excellent written communication for executives.
• Experience with globally distributed teams and US East/Central time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own the release calendar for each Control-M product line, kept a year ahead and aligned with engineering calendars and PI planning, and run every milestone review from the Theme Review through launch.
• Prepare each quarterly planning review (QPR), including agendas, input templates, completeness checks, and standalone review decks, publish idea statuses a week before each QPR so every submitter can see the outcome, and keep a decision log in Aha! that leaders and product managers can rely on.
• Run weekly idea triage with a product manager on rotation, route each idea to its owning product manager, flag deal-linked requests, and make sure every idea record states the customer problem, links to the account, and carries the right theme and capability tags.
• Build a feedback channel for each product line that brings together ideas, support escalations, and NPS verbatims, and share regular "what we heard and what we decided" updates and roadmap views with the field.
• Run the new product path for new SKUs, buyers, and markets, including pitch intake, review agendas, evidence sprints tracked against kill criteria, funding decision materials that name the capacity source, MVP check-ins, and the handoff into the regular feature path.
• Coordinate launch readiness across engineering, Product Marketing, Support, Customer Success, and Sales enablement, and run a release retrospective two weeks after each release, then track the improvement the team chooses until it is done.
• Run our customer programs, including the public Aha! ideas portal, design partner recruiting for priority initiatives, and the product portion of the Customer Advisory Board agenda in partnership with Product Marketing.
• Own Aha! as the system of record for the DBA product organization, including its configuration, statuses, value and effort fields, the Jira integration, user access, and data quality, and maintain templates for idea records, opportunity briefs, PRDs, and milestone decks.
• Report operating model metrics at each QPR, run a product and go-to-market survey to set a baseline and measure change, and collect product line guardrails at fiscal year planning and refresh them before each Theme Review.

Skills

Product operations

Program management

Product management

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Tools

Aha!

Jira integration

Roadmap tooling

Job description

Description and Requirements

At BMC trust is not just a word - it's a way of life!

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BMC empowers nearly 80% of the Forbes Global 100 to accelerate business value, faster than humanly possible. Our industry-leading portfolio unlocks human and machine potential to drive business growth, innovation, and sustainable success. BMC does this in a simple and optimized way by connecting people, systems, and data that power the world’s largest organizations so they can seize a competitive advantage.

Principal Program Manager, Product Operations

This role is based in the United States, with a strong preference for the East Coast (Eastern time zone). We will also consider exceptional candidates in the Midwest (Central time zone).

The Digital Business Automation (DBA) product line is BMC's industry-leading orchestration and automation platform. Control-M from BMC helps the world's largest companies automate time-sensitive, business-critical workflows. We orchestrate data and ML pipelines, supply chains, production lines, financial transactions, and many other processes in complex IT environments worldwide.

The DBA product management team defines the future vision for Control-M SaaS, Control-M on-premises, and new products, and we ship on two rhythms, quarterly for SaaS and twice a year for on-premises. In this role, you will run the DBA product operating model from the moment an idea arrives through launch and the retrospective that follows each release. You will own the release calendar and milestone reviews, idea intake and statuses, the path for incubating new products, customer programs, product management tooling, and the metrics that show whether the model is working.

By the end of your first year, every idea leaves each quarterly planning review with a status and a reason, every milestone holds its date with complete inputs, and our product managers spend their time on customers, discovery, and delivery.

This role reports to the VP of Product Management, Digital Business Automation, and works closely with product management, engineering, Product Marketing, Support, Customer Success, and Sales enablement. Most of our product and engineering teams are based in Tel Aviv, so you will overlap their working day each morning for handoffs and schedule reviews that work for attendees in both the US and Israel.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the release calendar for each Control-M product line, kept a year ahead and aligned with engineering calendars and PI planning, and run every milestone review from the Theme Review through launch.
• Prepare each quarterly planning review (QPR), including agendas, input templates, completeness checks, and standalone review decks, publish idea statuses a week before each QPR so every submitter can see the outcome, and keep a decision log in Aha! that leaders and product managers can rely on.
• Run weekly idea triage with a product manager on rotation, route each idea to its owning product manager, flag deal-linked requests, and make sure every idea record states the customer problem, links to the account, and carries the right theme and capability tags.
• Build a feedback channel for each product line that brings together ideas, support escalations, and NPS verbatims, and share regular "what we heard and what we decided" updates and roadmap views with the field.
• Run the new product path for new SKUs, buyers, and markets, including pitch intake, review agendas, evidence sprints tracked against kill criteria, funding decision materials that name the capacity source, MVP check-ins, and the handoff into the regular feature path.
• Coordinate launch readiness across engineering, Product Marketing, Support, Customer Success, and Sales enablement, and run a release retrospective two weeks after each release, then track the improvement the team chooses until it is done.
• Run our customer programs, including the public Aha! ideas portal, design partner recruiting for priority initiatives, and the product portion of the Customer Advisory Board agenda in partnership with Product Marketing.
• Own Aha! as the system of record for the DBA product organization, including its configuration, statuses, value and effort fields, the Jira integration, user access, and data quality, and maintain templates for idea records, opportunity briefs, PRDs, and milestone decks.
• Report operating model metrics at each QPR, run a product and go-to-market survey to set a baseline and measure change, and collect product line guardrails at fiscal year planning and refresh them before each Theme Review.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product operations, program management, or product management in a B2B software company
• Experience running product operations or program management for a product organization with several product lines, including both on-premises and SaaS products
• Experience running a quarterly planning cycle alongside engineering, including PI planning on a release train
• Experience running stage-gated funding for new products or incubation bets, including evidence reviews and kill criteria
• Hands-on administration of Aha!, including workspace configuration, ideas portals, and the Aha! and Jira integration
• Experience building intake programs that answer every submitter, including a public ideas portal
• The ability to build operating metrics and reporting from product tools
• The confidence to hold product managers and leaders to dates and inputs, and the willingness to change the process when a retrospective shows it is not working
• Excellent written communication, including review materials that executives can read cold
• Experience working with globally distributed teams, and the flexibility to start early to overlap with colleagues in Israel
• Fluent English, spoken and written
• Based in the US, Eastern time zone preferred, Central time zone considered for an exceptional candidate

Nice To Have

• Experience with Pendo or another product analytics tool
• Experience running customer advisory boards or design partner programs
• Knowledge of workload automation, orchestration, or IT operations software
• Experience with SAFe or other scaled agile frameworks

Our commitment to you!

BMC’s culture is built around its people. We have 6000+ brilliant minds working together across the globe. You won’t be known just by your employee number, but for your true authentic self. BMC lets you be YOU!

If after reading the above, You’re unsure if you meet the qualifications of this role but are deeply excited about BMC and this team, we want to attract talents from diverse backgrounds and experience to ensure we face the world together with the best ideas!

BMC is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, age, sex, creed, color, religion, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy, disabled veteran or status as a protected veteran. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, visit the accommodation request page.

BMC Software maintains a strict policy of not requesting any form of payment in exchange for employment opportunities, upholding a fair and ethical hiring process.

The annual base salary range represents the low and high end of the BMC salary range for this position. Actual salaries depend on a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training, licensure, and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

The range listed is just one component of BMC's employee compensation package. Other rewards may include a variable plan and country specific benefits.

At BMC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at /near the top of the range. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $152,850 - $254,750