SAFe Program Manager

Beacon Technologies; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Technologies, Inc. is seeking a highly skilled Program Manager (SAFe Agile) to lead multi-year programs spanning business, IT, and third-party partners.

You will own program delivery, track status, forecasts, and stakeholder communications, ensuring alignment with IT and insurance sector objectives. You will manage risks, dependencies, budgets, and cross-functional teams, driving outcomes and financial targets while maintaining strong business acumen and a collaborative, results-driven

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years delivering and managing complex, multi-year programs.
• PMP certification.
• Proven cross-functional leadership across business, IT and third parties.
• Strong financial management: budgets, forecasting and interdependencies.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of complex, multi-year programs across business, IT and third-party teams.
• Serve as primary point of contact for status, forecasts, and stakeholder management.
• Drive program execution, mitigate risks and manage third-party dependencies.
• Ensure business outcomes and financial targets are achieved.
• Maintain schedules, forecast resources and manage critical path dependencies.

Skills

PMP Certification

7+ years experience

SAFe Agile

Cross-functional leadership

Financial management

Stakeholder management

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

MS Project

Portfolio tools

Job description

Work Arrangement

• This is a hybrid role in Madison, WI requiring 2-3 days a week on site.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Program Manager (SAFe Agile) to lead the delivery of complex, multi-year programs across business, IT, and third-party teams. In this critical role, you will act as the primary point of contact for project status, financial forecasts, and stakeholder management. Operating with strong business acumen specifically within IT and insurance environments you will drive project execution, mitigate risks, manage third-party dependencies, and ensure all defined business outcomes and financial targets are successfully achieved.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and professional work experience.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience delivering and managing complex, multi-year programs.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams (business, IT, and third-party partners) to deliver people, process, and technology solutions.
• Strong financial management discipline, including business case development, cost estimation, budget tracking, monthly forecasting, and managing project interdependencies.
• Demonstrated expertise in maintaining project schedules, managing critical path dependencies, and accurately forecasting resource needs.
• Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills across all organizational levels.

Preferred Knowledge & Skills

• Expert knowledge of project management methodologies, SAFe Agile frameworks, techniques, and tools.
• Thorough understanding of business drivers and factors driving change within the IT and insurance industries.
• Working knowledge of information technology environments, solutions, plans, strategies, and the systems development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Ability to conduct current-state vs. future-state gap analyses and translate improvement opportunities into tangible deliverables.