Sr. Technical Program Manager, Portworx

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SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE...

As a Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Product and Engineering Operations, you’ll optimize the Portworx R&D org execution success by owning simple, yet effective operational practices and processes from collaborative definition to successful adoption, automation and measurement. 

 

You will play a key role in evolving Portworx Product and Engineering operations to effectively optimize the business processes, systems and tools the organization uses to manage and deliver against top business OKRs.

 

To achieve that you will collaborate closely with leaders in Product and Engineering, as well as with your counterparts in other BUs within the Product Business Group (PBG) at PURE.  You will hold the tension between giving individual functions the space to maximize their autonomy while ensuring alignment with how Portwork product teams effectively and efficiently operate overall.

 

Within Product and Engineering you will continuously evolve practices and processes to match Portworx team needs, from quarterly execution planning to ad hoc reprioritization. All while driving adoption of our operations through automation, simplicity and effectiveness.

 

You will collaborate closely with the Customer Experience operations team to ensure that practices and processes go hand in hand from first customer contact to continuous product support.

 

As part of the overall TPM team, you will also collaborate closely with your peers to evolve TPM practices and processes, enabling successful deliveries to our customers and partners at scale.

 

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define and evolve simple yet effective Product and Engineering processes and practices (e.g. quarterly roadmap planning, feature lifecycle, release management, ORK tracking, quarterly operational reviews)
• Optimize use of R&D tools and automation for streamlined reporting and metrics tracking; Power BI, JIRA, Confluence, etc. 
• Facilitate alignment between functions to maximize their autonomy while ensuring the sum of practices and processes optimize Portworx needs overall
• Motivate by creating clarity. For example, manage change by creating clarity on: Why is a change needed? How did we decide on the change? What is changing?
• Guide the team to follow established practices and processes - collect feedback to evolve our operations to successfully deliver at scale
• Drive regular leadership updates and proactively raise flags where leadership guidance is needed
• Lead programs and drive initiatives to enhance business process operations across the R&D organization

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE...

• 10+ years of a strong, proven track record in one or more of the following disciplines: Business Process Operations, Portfolio, Program and Project Manag