Program Manager, Software
About Wing:
Wing is reshaping the future of delivery. We are an on-demand drone delivery service that can deliver food, medicine or other items within minutes. We’ve also developed an unmanned traffic management platform to safely route drones through the sky. Our service is faster, safer and produces far less pollution than traditional delivery. Originally created in 2012 within X, the Moonshot Factory, Wing is now an Alphabet company.
About the Role:
Wing is looking for a Program Manager with strong communication skills and natural aptitude for forming relationships to coordinate the priorities of multiple teams and help us meet some of our most ambitious goals yet. The right person will have a track record managing a project schedule, identifying risks, successfully implementing mitigations, and managing stakeholders with differing needs and interests in a fast paced environment.
What You’ll Do:
- Track all aspects of a given project from start to finish, organizing priorities, proactively identifying potential blockers, brainstorming solutions to mitigate, and escalating as appropriate
- Own and manage goal-setting for your project team, help evaluate success criteria, and facilitate estimation and prioritization
- Coordinate sprint kick-off, sprint planning, and grooming exercises
- Facilitate weekly team meetings and daily stand-ups, and provide regular updates on project status to engineering and business leads
- Act as an agent of change, continually helping your partners and stakeholders find clarity and reinvent processes as the business scales
What You'll Need:
- BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience
- 4-6 years experience software project management experience
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
- Problem-solver mindset
- Comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to exercise good judgment in a rapidly changing and sometimes stressful environment
Bonus:
- Experience designing process in safety related or similar regulated environment
- Experience managing multiple country deployment of products and supporting go to market activities
- Experience driving partner API integration with 3rd parties or other enterprise systems