Mcafee Senior Director Technical Program Management 

United States, California, San Jose 

271650535

Senior Director of Technical Program Management
About the role:

• Strategic Planning:
  • Drive and influence technical and product strategy, proactively identify risks and develop mitigation strategies, align on priorities, and set direction for a broadly cross-functional Consumer Security Product Portfolio.
  • Partner with executive leadership in product management and engineering to ensure alignment with business priorities.
  • Oversee quarterly planning exercises, establishing timelines and team responsibilities, tracking progress, and owning key deliverables. Oversee ongoing communication to stakeholders in a timely fashion.
• Team Leadership:
  • Manage a team of 30+ globally distributed directors and program managers on the ground embedded within Product & Design teams. Build a healthy, scalable, and growth-oriented organization across multiple locations.
  • Mobilize cross-functional teams to deliver solutions at scale and enable data-driven decision making, taking solutions to market that accelerate McAfee’s ability to protect consumers from varied digital security threats.
  • Empower program managers to help inform programs’ visions, business goals, scope, and delivery practices. Anticipate and remove obstacles that slow down or prevent teams from delivering on program goals.
  • Forecast team resourcing requirements.
• Performance Optimization:
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers across McAfee to establish a shared vision for improving execution and building solutions.
  • Streamline and optimize operational processes, identifying areas for improvement and implementing solutions. Enable consistent adoption of common tools, naming conventions, and processes to support critical path and dependency management, risk and issue management, change management, etc.
• Performance Monitoring & Reporting:
  • Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and regularly monitor and report success.
  • Oversee regular portfolio reviews and updates at sprint reviews to deep dive into the current state of programs’ goals, risks, and critical issues.
  • Develop scalable reporting mechanisms that leverage approved tools (and recommend if necessary) for automation.

About you:

• 12+ years of experience in a software/technical program or engineering management experience, consulting, and/or an executive role
• Relevant program management certifications, such as PMI Agile-Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) and Scaled Agile Framework
• Deep experience in:
  • Leading large technical and complex programs across cross-functional teams, from concept through execution
  • Leading teams through change and transformation
  • Managing the product development lifecycle, with ability to adjust and apply this knowledge in a dynamic environment using agile methodologies and tools (e.g., Jira, ClickUp)
  • Managing changing specifications or standards, creating conditions in which teams feel comfortable and capable of working in response to ambiguity
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving, communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to articulate concepts and rationale to stakeholders at all levels
• Focus on execution, follow-through, accountability, and results
• Proactive problem-solver with a growth mindset, self-motivation, and results orientation
• High emotional intelligence and self-awareness

We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone at McAfee to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.

• Bonus Program
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, Short Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Coverage
• Paid Parental Leave
• Support for Community Involvement
• 14 Paid Company Holidays
• Unlimited Paid Time Off for Exempt Employees
• 96 Hours of Sick Time and 120 Hours of Vacation for Non-Exempt Employees Accrued Each Year

The starting pay range for this position is $189,620.00-$311,525.00. McAfee takes into consideration an individual’s skillset, experience and location in making final salary determinations. For further details, please discuss with the Talent Acquisition Partner.

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