Technical Program Manager

Ember LifeSciences; Westlake Village (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ember LifeSciences is seeking a Technical Project Manager to deliver cross-functional programs and lead the growth of business across multiple sales channels & geographies. You will be a highly visible leader that will own the communication, coordination, and execution full-lifecycle programs.

You will engage with senior product and engineering leaders to define and drive the execution of roadmaps, plan for dependencies, budget for and secure resources to ensure the meeting of agreed upon

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams.
• 5+ years of technical program management with software engineering teams.
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple, complex cross-functional initiatives from initiation through delivery. Involves — anticipating bottlenecks, providing escalation management, and communicating status broadly across all levels
• Make tradeoffs while balancing the business needs with technical constraints
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to define near term and long-term product plans.
• Create mechanisms to drive timely, accurate, and comprehensive project execution. Create clarity, eliminate obstacles, and drive issue resolution to ensure deliverables & timelines are met. Drive continuous improvement efforts to ensure delivery mechanisms get better over time
• Serve as a trusted advisor to product and engineering team

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Roadmap planning

Job description

Ember LifeSciences is looking for a Technical Project Manager to deliver cross-functional programs and lead the growth of business across multiple sales channels & geographies. In this role, you will be a highly visible leader that will own the communication, coordination, and execution full-lifecycle programs. You will engage with senior product and engineering leaders to define and drive the execution of roadmaps, plan for dependencies, budget for and secure resources to ensure the meeting of agreed upon deliverables and timelines. You will define processes that improve teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities

Key job responsibilities

• Lead multiple, complex cross-functional initiatives simultaneously from initiation through delivery. Involves — anticipating bottlenecks, providing escalation management, and communicating status broadly across all levels
• Make tradeoffs while balancing the business needs with technical constraints
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to define near term and long-term product plans.
• Create mechanisms to drive timely, accurate, and comprehensive project execution. Create clarity, eliminate obstacles, and drive issue resolution to ensure deliverables & timelines are met. Drive continuous improvement efforts to ensure delivery mechanisms get better over time
• Serve as a trusted advisor to product and engineering team

Basic Qualification

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
• experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules

Preferred Qualification

• Experience defining KPI's/SLAs used to drive multi-million-dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership