Senior Manager Technical Program Management

at  Zebra Technologies

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS Electrical Engineering or related technical degree, or Computer Science degree. MS preferred
• Minimum 12+ years’ in Engineering/Program management and Scrum Master experience for products in fast paced environment including minimum 2 years in a management capacity required.
• Cloud application experience (i.e. GCP, AWS, Azure); have developed and launched Cloud applications required.
• Excellent program management skills required.
• Demonstrated experience building strategic roadmaps and managing annual budgeting required.
• Experience in Scaled Agile methodolgy required.
• Advanced expertise working independently and as part of a team to solve difficult technical, quality, cost, and schedule challenges required.
• Expert in risk management practices required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• PMP preferred
• Experience with Lean Start-up preferred
• Ability to bring and execute new and innovative ideas to the market
• Strong strategic leadership and analytical skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Solid critical thinking and questioning skills
• Experience leading large cross-functional teams
• Self-motivated, results driven, manages risks, and thrives in an environment of uncertainty and continuous innovation
• Able to drive definition and creation of solutions from skeleton use cases
• Experienced team builder, great at collaboration and managing resources; proven interpersonal skills
• Advanced expertise with software development best practices including Scaled Agile, TDD and ContinuousIntegration; a track record of applying these methodologies
• Ability to translate customer problems into solution requirements
• Advanced expertise with Cloud development and Software/Services development integration
• Some travel may be required (domestic & international)-10-20%
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• Defines strategic initiatives to align the business to agile product development.
• Works closely with Portfolio Management to ensure strategic goals align and are represented in the innovation feature roadmap.
• Leads development of business plans, strategies and approaches to capitalize on business opportunities.
• Manages teams and program managers in both North America and APAC.
• Anticipates and addresses complex obstacles or issues and adjusts plans as needed
• Drives execution of solutions inclusive of concept definition, requirements validation, architecture specification, and governance compliance to our Application Lifecycle Management framework.
• Balances scope, schedule and budget considerations to adjust roadmap projects with minimal impact to the business.
• Establishes standards of performance across programs that are typically complex in nature with cross-functional teams in North America and APAC.
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives to improve quality, increase efficiency and accelerate time to market.
• Works independently with business in defining proof of value and customer’s return on investment.
• Leads system integration planning, release management, and planning for demonstrations, proof of concepts and pilots.
• Leads cross functional workstreams and drives execution for sales enablement, development and deployment.
• Independently builds relationships and works across all relevant areas of the solution businessincluding Sales, IT, Finance, Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Service Support.
• Organizes and presents business, technical and program reviews/status to Senior Leadership usingdigital media, dashboards and JIRA agile project management tools.
• Motivates project teams ensuring solutions are reliable and of quality
• Demonstrates advanced understanding of development processes and product launch scope and activities
• Leads strategic partnerships with technology companies (including startups) that are developingadjacent new cutting-edge solution elements. Partners with Zebra Ventures to identify entities that areadded-value to your business and solutions.
• Recognized as an “expert” in the business function and processes in which the program is operating
• Develops and protects intellectual property; be well versed with IP fundamentals.
• Partners with human resources and exercises knowledge of performance improvement plans (PIP), corrective actions, and other company policies, etc.
• Strength in hiring, recruiting, managing, developing, coaching, and retaining individuals and teams