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MongoDB Senior Technical Program Manager 
United States, New York, New York 
334357775

24.06.2024
The right candidate for this role will be:
  • Experienced in managing technical projects and working with full stack development teams using a variety of project management techniques
  • Experienced with 5+ years working in a technical capacity and/or in a project or program management role
  • Capable of deep user empathy and adept at balancing product goals and engineering constraints to deliver impactful experiences
  • Proficient in grasping the infrastructure of the Cloud and experimentation platforms, and skilled at identifying the technical interfaces between teams
  • Fluent in leveraging data for decision-making and able to become a go-to authority on experimentation and metrics
  • Able to maintain a strategic view of our software engineering processes even while executing on the daily operations of the team
  • Inspired to innovate in areas where automation can replace manual work. The team works with JIRA and Google Docs so any programming proficiency with either or both tools is a plus
  • Skilled at communicating across a diverse set of engineers and stakeholders
  • Hyper-organized and capable of juggling all of the data associated with projects and task-tracking
  • Knowledgeable of agile methodologies and experienced with implementing project management best practices
  • Driven by an attuned sense of priority and urgency to ship features and experiments to gain meaningful insights about our users
  • Trained in working with project tracking software (e.g. JIRA, Rally, MS Project, Trello)
  • Interested in learning everything about MongoDB
Position Expectations:
  • Execute and improve the processes and tools that inform the daily life of engineering teams
  • Drive coordination between product development teams and internal stakeholders to prioritize the team's backlog and plan its release roadmap
  • Identify risks to the team's delivery, mitigating them where possible
  • Own the data around the health of each team's project and ticket backlog
  • Know when a project/team requires more hands-on management and know when it is time to operationalize and develop a process framework for the project and/or team(s)
  • Champion the adoption of experimentation methodologies, fostering a culture of evidence-based decision-making within the organization.
  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement by conducting retrospectives to help identify areas of growth and learnings within and across teams
  • Recognize patterns in a sea of information and take action accordingly
  • Expand knowledge into new domains as called upon
Success Measures:
  • In 3 months you will understand MongoDB’s R&D platform and be fully ramped on engineering development processes
  • In 6 months you will be actively partnering with your key stakeholders and own executing on those processes
  • In 9 months you’ll have begun identifying areas for improving the team's operations, building consensus for improvement, and have an implementation plan for bringing these changes to fruition
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, related fields or equivalent practical experience.
  • Demonstrated technical aptitude and strong analytical skills with proven results
  • 5+ years industry experience as a program or engineering manager
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt style and delivery for a variety of audiences
$204,000 USD