Program Manager II [Remote-US] New

Quanata, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 133,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Quanata, LLC seeks an experienced Program Manager II to lead impactful projects and improve delivery processes within their innovative team. The role involves managing complex initiatives, fostering stakeholder collaboration, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals in a remote-first environment.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, life insurance

401(k) Plan with company match

Monthly wellness allowance

Work from home equipment funding

Paid Time Off: Four weeks in the first year

Parental leave: Twelve weeks fully paid

Professional development budget of $5000

Qualifications

• Six to Eight years project/program management or relevant experience.
• Expert in developing team harmony in a diverse environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage impactful initiatives aligned with business priorities.
• Drive continuous improvement and optimize delivery processes.
• Facilitate governance and manage escalations effectively.

Skills

Communications & Stakeholder Management

Continuous Improvement

Execution & Governance

Managing Organizational Change

Planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience

PMP certification

Job description

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About Us

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com

Our Team

From data scientists and actuaries to engineers, designers and marketers, we’re a world class team of tech-minded professionals from some of the best companies in Silicon Valley, and around the world. We’ve come together to create the context-based insurance solutions and experiences of the future. We know that the key to our success isn't just about nailing the technology—it’s hiring the talented people who will help us continue to make a quantifiable impact.

The role

We’re looking for an accomplished and well-rounded Program Manager II (PgM) to join our Quanata Program Management Office (PMO) Team. The PMO Team drives Quanata’s Rhythm of Business and focuses on delivery optimization across the company and driving company level goal achievement. PgM IIs manage initiatives that drive direct and material impact against the highest business priorities with complex execution. They lead through delivery optimization challenges and drive continuous improvement to promote efficient and effective processes.

• Bring order to chaos by building, implementing, and sustaining right-sized processes that empower the organization through clear workflows, communications, and reporting. Marshal delivery of the highest priority goals in the organization. Support organizational leaders in building effective goals (OKRs) and partner with cross-functional leads to break work into portfolios, programs, and workstreams (projects, kanban, etc.) to deliver goals.
• Ensure vertical and horizontal alignment and transparency at the appropriate level at the right time across all programs, projects, and services, including with senior leaders.
• Guarantee execution against the highest level goals by driving program and project teams to hit expected delivery goals (OKRs), and ensuring teams have effective and efficient ways of independent working.
• Facilitate governance across their teams, with minimal guidance implement known governance processes and patterns, and manage escalations end-to-end, exhibiting best practice issue management with minimal supervision.
• Drive organizational change across large teams through independent identification and execution of process improvements via a rigorous and thoughtful continuous improvement framework and organizational change management.
• Tackle volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous challenges by driving planning cycles and ensure clarity of goals (OKRs), schedules, milestones, and risks across your assigned areas of responsibility, which will include complex programs and projects.
• Provide program management direction within assigned programs, projects, and services, influencing organizational policies, best practices, and standards, ensuring alignment with Quanata OKRs and senior leadership.
• Collaborate effectively with all cross-functional colleagues and stakeholders and demonstrate workplace resilience against change, feedback, and challenges.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  
  

About you

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience and;
• Six to Eight years project/program management or relevant experience
• Program Management core skills and knowledge:
• Communications & Stakeholder Management - Proficient level
• Continuous Improvement - Development / nascent level
• Execution & Governance - Advanced level
• Managing Organizational Change - Development / nascent level
• Planning - Advanced level
• Expert in developing and maintaining team harmony in a diverse environment and showing workplace resilience in the face of change and feedback.
• Recruiting: Assist with recruiting and interviewing various roles, as needed.
• PMP certification

Salary: $133,000 to $170,000*

*Please note that the final salary offered will be determined based on the selected candidate's skills, and experience, as well as the internal salary structure at Quanata. Our aim is to offer a competitive and equitable compensation package that reflects the candidate's expertise and contributions to our organization.

• Benefits : We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits.These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.
• Work from Home Equipment : Given our virtual environment— in order to set you up for success at home, a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. Also, our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day.
• Paid Time Off: All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment. New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.
• Personal and Professional Development: We’re committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally. All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
• Location : We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. For most positions,occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required. Some positions might require travel per the job description provided to the employee.Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.
• Hours : We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.

Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This role is employed by Quanata, LLC which is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.

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