Sr. IT Program Manager

Maxonic Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Presencial; USD 140.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Maxonic Inc. seeks an experienced IT Program Manager to lead complex transformation programs, including platform migrations, organizational change, and business readiness.

You will engage VPs, C-suite executives, and senior leadership to define strategy and ensure successful delivery. You will drive end-to-end initiatives from planning through stabilization, coordinate cross-functional teams across IT, security, architecture, and operations, and provide executive reporting on progress, risks,

Formación

• 10+ years IT project/program management experience in enterprise transformation.
• Proven track record leading large-scale technology transformation or platform migrations.
• Experience engaging with VP-level and C-suite executives.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Experience managing budgets, dependencies, risks, and cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with Jira, Smartsheet, MS Project, Confluence or equivalent.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Responsabilidades

• Lead end-to-end IT transformation and migration initiatives, from strategy and planning through execution, adoption, and stabilization.
• Define project scope, objectives, transformation roadmap, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and success criteria.
• Develop and manage detailed migration and transformation plans, including discovery, assessment, pilot, migration waves, cutover, validation, and post-migration stabilization.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across business units, IT, architecture, engineering, security, infrastructure, compliance, and executive leadership.
• Establish project governance, operating cadence, status reporting, decision-making processes, and executive communications.
• Manage project schedules, budgets, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, and change requests.
• Partner with architects and engineering teams to drive data discovery, content assessment, migration strategy, technical readiness, and execution.
• Coordinate migration pilots and enterprise-wide rollout waves while ensuring business readiness for each phase.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to data integrity, permissions, security, downtime, user disruption, dependencies, and business continuity.
• Coordinate UAT, data validation, permissions validation, issue resolution, business sign-offs, and go-live readiness.
• Develop and execute stakeholder communication, change management, training, and user adoption strategies.
• Support the transition from Box to the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and promote adoption of SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Teams.
• Coordinate development of project documentation, user guides, FAQs, training materials, support processes, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Establish and track transformation KPIs, migration metrics, adoption metrics, milestones, and business outcomes.
• Provide regular executive-level reporting covering progress, risks, dependencies, financials, decisions, and transformation outcomes.
• Ensure the transformation aligns with enterprise security, compliance, governance, architecture, and information-management standards.
• Drive post-migration stabilization, lessons learned, continuous improvement, and transition to operational support.

Conocimientos

IT Project/Program Management

Stakeholder management

Executive communications

Agile/Waterfall hybrid

Cross-functional leadership

Change management

Leadership

Herramientas

Jira

Smartsheet

Microsoft Project

Confluence

Descripción del empleo

The role requires strong experience managing complex technology transformation programs, platform migrations, organizational change, business readiness, and enterprise stakeholder engagement with the ability to engage effectively with Vice Presidents (VPs), C-suite executives, and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end IT transformation and migration initiatives, from strategy and planning through execution, adoption, and stabilization.
• Define project scope, objectives, transformation roadmap, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and success criteria.
• Develop and manage detailed migration and transformation plans, including discovery, assessment, pilot, migration waves, cutover, validation, and post-migration stabilization.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across business units, IT, architecture, engineering, security, infrastructure, compliance, and executive leadership.
• Establish project governance, operating cadence, status reporting, decision-making processes, and executive communications.
• Manage project schedules, budgets, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, and change requests.
• Partner with architects and engineering teams to drive data discovery, content assessment, migration strategy, technical readiness, and execution.
• Coordinate migration pilots and enterprise-wide rollout waves while ensuring business readiness for each phase.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to data integrity, permissions, security, downtime, user disruption, dependencies, and business continuity.
• Coordinate UAT, data validation, permissions validation, issue resolution, business sign-offs, and go-live readiness.
• Develop and execute stakeholder communication, change management, training, and user adoption strategies.
• Support the transition from Box to the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and promote adoption of SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Teams.
• Coordinate development of project documentation, user guides, FAQs, training materials, support processes, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Establish and track transformation KPIs, migration metrics, adoption metrics, milestones, and business outcomes.
• Provide regular executive-level reporting covering progress, risks, dependencies, financials, decisions, and transformation outcomes.
• Ensure the transformation aligns with enterprise security, compliance, governance, architecture, and information-management standards.
• Drive post-migration stabilization, lessons learned, continuous improvement, and transition to operational support.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT Project/Program Management experience, preferably within enterprise transformation, application migration, digital workplace, or technology modernization programs.
• Proven experience leading large-scale technology transformation or application platform migration initiatives from planning through implementation and adoption.
• Experienced in executive communications and stakeholder management, with the ability to engage effectively with Vice Presidents (VPs), C-suite executives, and senior leadership.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project delivery methodologies.
• Proven experience managing complex stakeholder environments, executive communications, risks, dependencies, budgets, and cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of change management, business readiness, UAT, adoption, and organizational transformation.
• Experience with project management tools such as Jira, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Confluence, or equivalent.
• Excellent communication, leadership, problem-solving, negotiation, and organizational skills.