Senior Engineering Program Manager

Knowledge & Skills:

- Exhibits a high degree of autonomy, is determined, and should be a go-getter with the ability to multitask and stay on top of a lot of things simultaneously

- Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills.

- Have a good understanding of Gen AI tech stack.

- Leads by example. Sets high standards & communicates expectations of high achievement to others.

- Establishes credibility with peers and senior managers and is a driving force for change across the organization.

- Ability to tie team objectives back to the broader organizational objectives and goals.

- Should have good knowledge of a software product development lifecycle.

- Knowledge of agile development techniques and project management tools.

- Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills.

- Ability to communicate in a geographically distributed environment with diverse collaborators and to operate in ambiguous situations while bringing clarity.

Some Key Responsibilities:

- Coordinate all aspects of the business for development and release of technologies, products, features & functions in the organisation.

- Build the project schedule, including putting together the framework and identifying dependencies—negotiating with 3rd parties/internal teams.

- Understand and assess critical paths and dependencies for delivering and shipping products / services and facilitate discussions between product/client teams, product management and engineering.

- Effectively negotiate, persuade and motivate extended project teams & senior management across BUs, provide justifiable proposals and recommendations, and clearly outline courses of action to follow.

- Assess future challenges on projects and initiatives and mobilize immediate and extended team members to take action, proactively addressing issues.

- Initiate, develop and effectively completes plans for change (new process, tool, etc) across multiple teams.