Principal Technical Program Manager
Company Description
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Job Description
Team & Role
Product Operations supports the operations of the Unified Technology Group (UTG) and Platform, Solution Sales, and Industries (PSSI) organizations. Our Program Management Office drives and delivers cross-functional programs including Release Management, Release Big Rocks, Platform Engineering, Global Cloud Services (GCS), Regulated Markets, Cloud Security, M&A, Customer Upgrade Operations, and other critical strategic programs. Our Technical Training & Enablement team provides training to enable thousands of employees across UTG and Product Management. Our Analytics team supports the quality and development of our products and platform releases as well as delivering support, operations, product experience, and usage data to UTG, PSSI, and the P4.
What you get to do in this role:
You'll work in a fast-paced, environment to bring your programs to life and see them through to a successful completion, cultivating collaboration and driving business outcomes. You'll think strategically, while driving tactical execution of large cross organizational programs, from initial conception, through program development, delivery and transition to operations. The successful candidate is a results oriented, self-starter with an established, documented competence in engineering program management and operations.
Qualifications:
- Drive large complex cross-functional technical initiatives to achieve desired business outcomes
- Translate business needs into implementation plans, by driving cross-functional team to identify and align on solutions, delivery dependencies, and schedule
- Develop and manage the overall prioritization, milestones, deliverables, and success criteria
- Identify and manage external dependencies and logistics; identify and mitigate risks throughout the schedule
- Host and facilitate executive-level meetings as well as large cross-functional program meetings
- Simplify complex issues into a crisp, actionable executive-level status updates and mitigation plans
- Build strong working relationships with stakeholders across the project team
- Exercise key skills such as conflict resolution, cross-team collaboration, as well as asking and answering questions with precision
- Be a change agent and embody the continuous improvement philosophy to influence processes, methodologies and business agility
- Actively engage in Program Management Community of Practice and help document and establish standards and better practices
- This position will require travel as needed (~15%)
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 15+ years of program management experience in software development organizations
- BA/BS degree or higher in Business Management, Computer Information Systems (CIS), Management Information Systems (MIS), Operations and Information Management (OIM) or other equivalent combination of education and experience.
To be successful in this role you have:
- Experience delivering Information Security programs is a plus
- Proven project/program management experience involving many cross functional teams
- Superior organizational skills with high regard for quality
- Strong collaboration and relationship building skills - able to work well with many different types of personalities in various function. Masterful in the art of bringing people together
- Excellent communication skills - Ability to communicate, document, and present complex technical issues in concise and efficient manner for variety of audiences
- Experienced and confident in creating slides and presenting to executives
- Must possess effective listening skills and comfortable asking powerful questions
- Passion for working with people in technical environments
- Strong leadership skills to influence and motivate without authority. True servant leader
- Strong facilitation skills to lead/drive variety of program events
- Excellent negotiation and conflict management skills
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Additional Information
ServiceNow is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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