About the Role
Program Manager III – Engineering (Remote)
USA – Remote
Full time
job requisition id R16614
#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing over 1 trillion events a day with a petabyte of RAM deployed in our Cassandra clusters – and this traffic is growing daily. Were looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to developing and shaping our cybersecurity platform. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters – one team, one fight.
About the Role:
As a Program Manager III – Engineering, youll be responsible for supporting CrowdStrike product lines as part of the Platform Product Group, including supporting and engaging in the work and projects of various Engineering teams. Your primary focus will entail driving the scheduling, scoping and end-to-end execution of projects for the Product Group, working directly with Engineering Developers, Product Managers, and Engineering Managers to ensure timely delivery against the roadmap. You will work closely across the entire CrowdStrike organization, including Product Marketing, IT (CRM team), Legal, Sales and the CTO org. You will collaborate across global time zones in order to support the products, teams and projects, enabling Engineering teams to deliver iteratively and transparently while ensuring internal and external dependencies are well known, critical issues are identified and driven to resolution.
What You’ll Do:
- Partnering and direct facilitation with teams at all levels; from in the weeds with developers on projects to summations at the executive level.
- Demonstrates the ability to learn and communicate technical context and align it with business objectives to help drive project deliverables, resources, and timelines.
- Creating and driving project schedules, working with Engineering management on project task assignments, and managing schedule progress; from large phases through to detailed tasks, including understanding and managing dependencies within and across Product Groups and CrowdStrike teams outside of Engineering.
- Collaborating with staff and management of multiple worldwide business units (including subject matter experts, product management, design teams, and technology teams) to clearly identify, explain, and communicate their project involvement, project goals, expectations, and tasks.
- Proactively tracks the status of project activities and ensures that schedules and priorities are being met.
- Ensures critical issues are identified, tracked through resolution, and escalated if necessary.
- Proactively manages daily/weekly project communication and status reporting.
- Leads Scrum meetings and creates and follows up on meeting minutes/action items.
- Flexibly working across timezones to help coordinate and follow up on work.
- Willingness to travel both locally and internationally several times a quarter.
What You’ll Need:
- Must be proficient in the use of Jira (query/ticket creation, board creation and facilitation).
- 5+ years of experience working in a program/project management capacity for software development.
- Experience with/exposure to large scale platforms (cloud technologies), complex inter-dependent technologies.
- Seasoned team coach that manages and alleviates (instead of running from) persistent obstacles.
- Experience with Software Development Lifecycle and Project Management Methodologies, specifically Agile/Scrum. Experience with Scaled Agile Framework methodology a plus.
- Experience owning a program/ portfolio of products/features, scoping requirements, planning milestones, and being an active resource for technical teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
- Must enjoy consensus-driven environments where collaboration, honest and open communications are paramount.
- Must work effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team.
- Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail, and have the ability to make logical, timely decisions.
- Excel at proactively and independently driving results in small team environments.
- Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment.
- Ability to extrapolate context from complex technical conversations, and provide teams with valuable summations around action items and next steps.