Cisco Engineering Program Manager HyperShield 

United States, California, San Jose 

596717434

The application window is expected to close on Friday, November 13, 2024.

Who You Are

You are typically the most organized person in the room and coupled with your communication skills, you excel at bringing people together in a shared understanding

What You Will Do

• Support, track and manage complex program execution, multi-functional coordination, and inter/intra team communications to deliver outstanding, high quality program outcomes for Cisco’s Hypershield program.
• Work closely with the Engineering and Product Management teams to define project scope, objectives, deliverables and timelines into an actionable backlog.
• Lead the product’s release plans and set expectations on delivery of new features.
• Bring the right people together to identify risks and dependencies, define and adjust plans to mitigate and manage accordingly.
• Monitor program progress and effectively communicate status, updates to both internal and external teams.
• Lead program gates to ensure compliance, alignment, and executive transparency
• Drive day-to day program activities to meet overall program objectives
• Resolve conflicts by focusing on shared purpose and mutual understanding
• Drive retrospectives and measurable process improvement efforts

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of related experience or Master’s degree with 8+ years of related experience or PhD with 5+ years of related experience leading large scale enterprise engineering projects or programs
• 5+ years of experience using Agile methodologies and SCRUM frameworks for program management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fine-tuned understanding of and expertise in Lean Enterprise / Agile / Kanban practices and supporting tools
• Ability to understand, discuss / communicate technical concepts, with both technical and non-technical individuals
• Able to communicate well with cross-functional team members, be able to efficiently collaborate with and influence team members to achieve project goals, and contribute positively to the engineering community environment
• Must have strong co-ordination and facilitation skills and be willing to work with geo-distributed teams
• Comfortable interpreting data to translate and present as business insights
• Experience with collaboration tools, defect tracking tools, data visualization applications, and business applications
• Consistent track record of successful sophisticated program management
• Bachelors or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field