WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing over 1 trillion events a day with a petabyte of RAM deployed in our Cassandra clusters - and this traffic is growing daily. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to developing and shaping our cybersecurity platform. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight.

About the Role:
We are CrowdStrike, a fast-growing security company that protects our wide range of customers from cybersecurity attacks. We’re investing in program managers who are energetic, eager to learn, flexible and capable of managing large scale/complex engineering projects in a fast-paced environment.
As a Sr. Program Manager, you’ll be responsible for supporting the Platform Product Group, including supporting and engaging in the work and projects of the Platform team.
Your primary focus will entail driving the scheduling, scoping and end-to-end execution of projects for the Product Group, working directly with Engineering Developers, Product Managers, and Dev Managers to ensure timely delivery against the roadmap. You will work closely across functional teams, and across geo-locations in Europe, the United Kingdom, Israel, and the United States to collaborate and ensure dependencies are well known, critical issues are identified and driven to resolution.

What You’ll Do:

• Partnering and direct facilitation with teams at all levels; from in the weeds with developers on projects to summations at the executive level.
• Demonstrates the ability to learn and communicate technical context and align it with business objectives to help drive project deliverables, resources, and timelines.
• Creating and driving the project schedule, working with dev management task assignments, and managing schedule progress; from large phases through to detailed tasks, including understanding and managing dependencies within and across Product Groups.
• Collaborating with staff and management of multiple worldwide business units (including subject matter experts, product management, design teams, and technology teams) to clearly identify, explain, and communicate their project involvement, project goals, expectations, and tasks.
• Proactively tracks the status of project activities and ensures that schedules and priorities are being met.
• Ensures critical issues are identified, tracked through resolution, and escalated if necessary.
• Proactively manages daily/weekly project communication and status reporting.
• Leads Scrum meetings and creates and follows up on meeting minutes/action items.
• Flexibly working across timezones to help coordinate and follow up on work.
• Willingness to travel both locally and internationally several times a quarter.

What You’ll Ned:

• 10+ years of experience working in a program/project management capacity for software development.
• Must be proficient in the use of Jira (query/ticket creation, board creation and facilitation).
• Experience with/exposure to large scale platforms (cloud technologies), complex inter-dependent technologies.
• Seasoned team coach that manages and alleviates (instead of running from) persistent obstacles
• Experience with Software Development Lifecycle and Project Management Methodologies, specifically Agile/Scrum. Experience with Scaled Agile Framework methodology a plus.
• Experience owning a program/ portfolio of products/features, scoping requirements, planning milestones, and being an active resource for technical teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
• Must enjoy consensus-driven environments where collaboration, honest and open communications are paramount.
• Must work effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team.
• Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail, and have the ability to make logical, timely decisions.
• Excel at proactively and independently driving results in small team environments.
• Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment.
• Ability to extrapolate context from complex technical conversations, and provide teams with valuable summations around action items and next steps.

Requested in lieu of a cover letter:
In order to highlight what would make you a valuable asset to the CrowdStrike Program Management team, we’d like to know what a day in your “project management” life looks like. More specifically, please tell us about a single project in particular which required your leadership and fortitude to turn the tides of potential disaster. Using an intro paragraph to provide a brief summary of the problem the project was looking to solve and no more than 10 bullet points of “Actions Taken” by you specifically that led to the project’s successful outcome.

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• Partnering and direct facilitation with teams at all levels; from in the weeds with developers on projects to summations at the executive level.
• Demonstrates the ability to learn and communicate technical context and align it with business objectives to help drive project deliverables, resources, and timelines.
• Creating and driving the project schedule, working with dev management task assignments, and managing schedule progress; from large phases through to detailed tasks, including understanding and managing dependencies within and across Product Groups.
• Collaborating with staff and management of multiple worldwide business units (including subject matter experts, product management, design teams, and technology teams) to clearly identify, explain, and communicate their project involvement, project goals, expectations, and tasks.
• Proactively tracks the status of project activities and ensures that schedules and priorities are being met.
• Ensures critical issues are identified, tracked through resolution, and escalated if necessary.
• Proactively manages daily/weekly project communication and status reporting.
• Leads Scrum meetings and creates and follows up on meeting minutes/action items.
• Flexibly working across timezones to help coordinate and follow up on work.
• Willingness to travel both locally and internationally several times a quarter