Hotline: 678-408-1354

Technical Program Manager

Credit Karma San Francisco, CA Information Technology

Credit Karma is looking for a Program Manager who has a strong software engineering background and leadership experience in a hyper-growth environment. You will be responsible for providing the day to day support required to fully support cross-functional teams, As a leader within engineering, you will be focusing on establishing good communication channels, giving people clear context, and clarifying milestones and end goals. We need a solid proactive leader and not just a project order taker, scheduler, and status reporter. You’ll work closely with our teams to drive dialog in order to create a high level of teamwork; thus bringing together Product, Development, Quality Assurance, Security, Legal, Analytics, Release and anyone else needed to deliver successful programs.

What the job entails?

  • Provide leadership and coordination to Engineering programs that span multiple teams and departments.
  • Create core teams to manage your programs and ensure the team works together to create objectives and timelines.
  • Own and swiftly break down impediments that prevent things from moving forward.
  • Increase collaboration and improve visibility into cross-team dependencies.
  • Identify and communicate risk in projects early so that mitigation steps can be taken.
  • Drive "release train” planning and activities that span across multiple teams.
  • Ability to perform ScrumMaster responsibilities for a team when needed.
  • Contribute on management efforts that will help shape a scalable culture and process.

Our ideal candidate

  • 5+ years of experience working with Engineering teams in a technology company setting.
  • Start-up or small company experience, and working in low structure environments.
  • Experience in an enterprise Agile transformation that has scaled beyond the individual team level is a plus.
  • Able to discuss examples of driving a project involving 3 or more teams and 20 or more individuals from conception to delivery.
  • Has clear opinions on what Program Management is and how to structure a program in an environment that may not have a clear structure already.
  • Solid understanding of Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and scaled Agile principles and practices.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, open to change, and thrives in fast-paced and fluid environments.
  • Strong organizational, verbal/written communication, facilitation, coaching and influencing skills.
  • Highly energetic, collaborative, flexible, and diplomatic.
  • Comfortable challenging that we are doing things right.
  • Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to build relationships with senior-level leaders and day-to-day contacts alike.
  • Bachelor’s Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field for these positions.
Apply for this job
Share this job

Contact Us

Eltas EnterPrises Inc.
3978 Windgrove Crossing
Suite 200A
Suwanee, Georgia
30024, USA
contact@eltasjobs.com