Sr Director, Technical Programs and Release
Here at Anaplan, we have reinvented how companies see, plan, and run their businesses. Our platform allows our customers to uncover new insights, connect their strategy to their plans, and work in ways they had not previously thought possible. We’re growing fast, constantly innovating, and couldn’t be prouder to help our customers move forward with confidence in a sophisticated and changing world.
We are looking for forward-thinking people who bend over backward to put customers first. Individuals who thrive on challenge and are ready to grasp the opportunity of a lifetime. Because we fundamentally believe every colleague brings unique value to our whole. We are a workplace where each person feels seen, heard, and valued, and can contribute their unique talent to our collective effort. We believe that for ourselves and for our customers.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate across the business to refine existing engineering planning, execution and release processes to support the business' objectives.
- Provides strategic leadership for programs by developing organization-wide objectives and practices to ensure that the scope, business case, objectives, milestones and success metrics for portfolio of projects are well defined, understood, measured and reported effectively.
- Builds a practice of robust program and release management which will enable technical teams to move fast and with high quality
- Understand the interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs and drive cross-roadmap/portfolio dependencies and drive trade-off decisions
- Define a release strategy based that aligns to value streams and varying degrees of agile maturity
- Implement formalized roles and responsibilities for program, project and release management
- Manage a team of program managers to ensure adoption of standards and procedures governing the practice of project management and execution of the project portfolio
- Define key metrics for measuring resource capacity, project valuation, cost, risk, status and performance
- Provide up-to-date, accurate, meaningful views of project status and drive on-time delivery of projects and programs
- Identify and raise portfolio issues and risks for mitigation, resolution or escalation to the appropriate level on a timely basis. Foster accountability of cross-functional team leads to resolve project issues and ensure project success
- Execute wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical work, in a way that best supports business strategy. Champion and coach teams towards best practices
- Ensure that cross-functional team leads have a clear understanding of roles and ownership for delivering project, goals, deliverables, and issues
Key Skills and Experience
- 10+ years of program management experience on progressively more complex projects
- 7+ years of leading and managing people
- 4+ years of experience in Agile transformation and working knowledge of various agile methodologies, with demonstrated experience in at least one.
- High competency and knowledge in software engineering, product development, and general business processes
- Experience standing up and running a release management practice, minimizing risk associated with release deployments
- Formal training in project or portfolio management methodologies and/or certifications
- Proven success in portfolio management and large-scale, enterprise-wide product development delivery from strategy to execution, involving cross-functional teams in business, operations and technical domains
- Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to challenge the status quo
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a dynamic, results-oriented environment
- Naturally organized, analytical and detailed oriented. Energetic self-starter passionate about professional integrity and excellence with a positive attitude and contagious enthusiasm
- Strong relationship building/partnering skills and the ability to work with varying levels of individual contributors and management. Comfortable presenting to executives
- Delivery experience using agile and hybrid methodologies
- Master’s or bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
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