PayPal Sr Engineering Program Manager 

United States, Ohio, Toledo 

388587567

Job Title:Senior Engineering Program Manager

We are the Technology PMO organization that is responsible for delivering initiatives and programs to support the business. You will be working with the Cybersecurity domain and Technology leaders to successfully drive enterprise security projects and programs.

As a senior program manager, you manage end to end programs and bring overall visibility into program delivery ensuring governance structures and timely execution. You align the needs and timelines of portfolios by release planning and scrum of scrums. You facilitate data driven decision making by tracking, measuring, and visualizing key metrics across the org, and by coordinating all activities from goal setting to launch. You bring process and execution best practices, resolving complex roadblocks and / or dependencies

Your Day to Day:

• Organize and lead planning activities resulting in the creation of a release/program roadmap.
• Define launch strategy for new product capabilities including geographic scope and rollouts, detailed timing, ramp and analytics plan.
• Proactively manage across stakeholder groups to establish interdependencies, identify risks and resource constraints, and eliminate significant roadblocks.
• Ensure measurable KPIs are developed for the program, and that they align to the overall KPIs for the product.
• Design and manage pilots and beta testing.
• Create and manage clear Gating Criteria with business partners for Go/No-go decisions.
• Ensure regular, active communication with adjacent programs and external stakeholders, including international regions.
• Identify program impediments and addresses including proper escalation to individuals/groups as needed.
• Lead program retrospectives and commitment to improvement on a regular cadence
• Advocate and manage program implementation according to PayPal’s product lifecycle management.
• Maintain awareness of the cross product/program synergies and actively communicate opportunities.
• Lead effective project/program governance and stakeholder management.
• Assess the current methodology, identify/rationalize gaps vs. best practices, and continuously improve the process to support our aggressive deployment schedule.

What You Need to Bring:

• A successful candidate should bring 10+ years of experience in project and program management
• Cybersecurity experience is preferred
• Relevant experience organizing multiple teams delivering on software/product development initiatives required.
• Experience with different software development methodologies including the agile development methodology such as Scrum is preferred.
• Successful track record of managing complex development programs to deliver technical solutions and achieve business results, positively impacting the customer experience.
• Proven ability to develop effective, matrixed, cross-organization relationships, collaborating and communicating cross-functionally.
• Strong technical acumen and strong voice of the customer across the program delivery lifecycle.
• Good knowledge of project management process, project management software tools, templates and management techniques
• Success in developing program/project level artifacts to support a major software implementation program with concurrent releases
• Additional nice to have skills: inherent bias to action, proven leadership skills, flexibility and ability to work through ambiguity