Program Manager

Job Description

Job Title
Program Manager

About Your Role:

At Dotdash Meredith, we take our Agile culture seriously. We embrace change in a fast-paced environment while keeping our plans organized, our goals at the forefront, and our teams motivated and high performing.

The Agile Program Management Office (PMO) is a unique team that partners with product development, design, and technology. We work across departments and teams to facilitate effective collaboration and delivery of valuable products to our customers in a timely manner. As a Program Manager, you will lead complex, intra-team and cross-team initiatives for Consumer Brands. Your role is a partner to engineering in the direction and growth of the development team and product development organization.

About Your Contributions:
• Program Management:
• You will partner with team leads and internal stakeholders to help create short- and longer-term roadmaps and project plans.
• You will lead efforts to mitigate risks, identify and help manage dependencies, keep stakeholders informed, and guide initiatives to completion.
• You will successfully engage with business and technical stakeholders to deliver on initiative objectives.
• You will facilitate collaboration and understanding between engineering teams and other departments, both technical and non-technical.
• Fostering an Environment of Agility and Continuous Learning:
• You may facilitate Agile ceremonies like sprint planning and retrospectives, as well as cross-team planning activities.
• You will help teams to optimize the flow of work by removing impediments, running effective retrospectives, collecting and sharing metrics, and cultivating a culture of continuous improvement.
• You will drive agility on your teams, facilitating the timely delivery of products and initiatives which delight users and stakeholders alike.
• You will help foster a healthy and collaborative team culture.
• Process Improvement:
• You will work with the rest of the program management team to both streamline, scale, and improve processes within the product development organization.

About You:
• You are someone: communicative, highly organized, facilitative, assertive, situationally aware, enthusiastic, continually improving, who values transparency, is able to foster a cohesive team culture, and strives to empower your teams.
• You are well-versed in and a proponent of the Agile principles and manifesto. You are able to balance it with a drive to organize, plan and forecast, and being flexible enough to adapt practices to specific teams and the organization.
• You are someone people look to as a leader.
• You invest in relationships and collaborate with a wide range of teams and stakeholders.
• You are comfortable operating in ambiguous situations and helping teams arrive at a decision
• You balance between competing interests and diverse personalities to get alignment.
• You are proactive, anticipate your team's needs, and spring into action to drive results.
• You are willing to roll up your sleeves and have a ''can-do'' spirit.
• You have a strong understanding of the fundamentals of full lifecycle software development processes and procedures.
• You have experience with a range of tools, and can learn to configure everything from an index card to JIRA integrations.
• You have 7+ years of experience as a project or program manager.
• You have 5+ years experience as a Scrum Master for software development teams and/or non-technical teams that were diligently applying agile principles, practices, and theory.
• Experience, insight, enthusiasm, and an ability to learn eclipses classroom learning and certifications.

Pay Range
Salary: $98,000 - $140,000

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gqe04x-18-226-166-64-42 in your application.