Technical Program Manager, Senior

Overview

Remote Work:
Hybrid

At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges.

Being a part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are a part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.

You ll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about – locally and globally.

Come make an impact every day at Zebra.

• Drive execution of solutions inclusive of concept definition, requirements validation, architecture specification, and governance compliance to our Application Lifecycle Management framework.
• Ability to translate customer problems into solution requirements.
• Team leadership for scaled Agile cross-functional innovation teams. Contribute to and promote the development of agile skillset and capabilities within Zebra. Execute multiple limited scope projects simultaneously or a large program with senior manager’s guidance utilizing modern project management methodologies to ensure maximum project effectiveness.
• Organize and lead scrum teams as an agile scrum master (SM) or a release train engineer (RTE).
• Lead system integration planning, release management, and planning for demonstrations, proofs of concepts and pilots.
• Lead creating cross functional work streams and driving execution for sales enablement, development and deployment.
• Independently build relationships and work across all relevant areas of the solution business including Sales, Services, IT, Finance, Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Support.
• Work independently with business in defining proof of value and customer’s return on investment.
• Organizes and presents business, technical and program reviews/status to Senior Leadership using digital media, dashboards and JIRA agile project management tools.
• Independently execute to program plan and budgets for multiple, large projects. Recommend corrective actions and implement changes. Identify and mitigate risks; develop and implement risk mitigation plans. Owns ensuring alignment from key leaders of milestone achievement before moving the program forward.
• Motivate a project team to ensure solutions are reliable and of quality, in a highly collaborative fashion.
• Demonstrates the ability to see cross-functional impacts of decisions and project plans and execution. Balances scope, schedule and budget considerations to adjust the project with minimal impact to the business. Understands the business objectives of the program and assumes personal accountability for success of the program against those objectives.
• Provides assistance with coordination of deliverables and project assets to assist the project team. Anticipates and addresses obstacles or issues that are moderate to significant in severity and escalates complex issues to management for assistance. Independently engages additional resources as needed to address obstacles or delays. Adjusts the plan per management guidelines as delays or obstacles are experienced.
• Demonstrates intermediate understanding of development processes and product launch scope and activities.
• Very limited supervision by management is expected in this position for complex or novel problems.
• May coach or act as escalation point for level 1 or level 2 Program Managers.
• Supports early stage go to market activities and transition to marketing.
• Develop and protect intellectual property; be well versed with IP fundamentals.
• Explore and understand competitive landscape in both product and business terms.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS Electrical Engineering or Computer Science degree, or related technical BS degree; MS preferred.
• Minimum 5+ years  Engineering/Program management and Scrum Master experience for products in fast paced environment.

Preferred…