Technical Program Manager
About the Position:
100% Remote Accessible – US-based only
GenUI is hiring for a new Technical Program Manager who wants to start up and drive unique, innovative, and technically complex projects multiple times a year. Someone who loves working with some of the most innovative software companies in the world and driving some of their toughest projects from a vague outline to a complete product. A person who is passionate about collaborating with small teams of engineers, designers, and architects to exceed our clients’ expectations and wow their customers.
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.
What we look for:
- People who can demonstrate our commitment to our clients by empowering our engineering teams to ramp up quickly on the clients’ core businesses, their goals, and determine how best we can deliver for them and support them.
- A history of driving cross-functional teams to plan, cost, build, and maintain project schedules and budgets that can drive accountability, transparency, and predictability with our clients.
- People who are proactive, accountable, and have a bias for action. Take ownership for all aspects of your projects, how you will achieve them, what development methodology you use, and the team of engineers you are leading. This includes managing your client relationships, project planning, informal and formal communications, status reporting, budgeting, and the identification of risks, issues, and dependencies for the projects and their timely resolution.
- Proven ability to scope and estimate new project opportunities in collaboration with Business Development to help create actionable Statements of Work (SOW) and Change Requests for clients and potential clients.
- A desire to practice and promote GenUI values, build an environment of trust and demonstrate leadership at all times.
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of project and program experience that includes managing custom software projects, experience driving engineering teams of 5 or more people, and taking ownership and accountability for project scope, delivery, and budgets.
- Experience driving products from inception through delivery.
- Experience building long term relationships with clients and identifying opportunities for additional business opportunities with them.
- Demonstrated proficiency in project management tools like JIRA/Azure DevOps and Office365/G Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides).
Skills/Abilities:
- A natural collaborator with high emotional intelligence who influences without authority and fosters an environment of shared accountability.
- Adept problem solver who is comfortable navigating ambiguity and defining next steps for your fellow team members.
- Adaptable self-starter who is skilled at creating structure in ambiguous environments, possesses a “can do” attitude, and thrives on managing multiple clients and projects concurrently.
- Excellent facilitation skills to run meetings, workshops, sprints, and standups.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with audiences of all levels, including judgement for when and how to communicate risks and issues.
GenUI is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.