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Program Manager

Job in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, 97204, USA
Listing for: Jobtailor
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-02
Job specializations:
  • Business
    Change Management, Business Analyst, Operations Management
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120000 - 170000 USD Yearly USD 120000.00 170000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
  • Partner with the VP of Operations and Operations Manager / PMO Lead to build One App's PMO function from the ground up.
  • Help develop the PMO charter, operating model, project standards, intake process, scoping model, tiering framework, and fractional PM resource allocation model.
  • Build reusable tools, templates, playbooks, dashboards, project artifacts, and operating rhythms.
  • Help establish PMO standards for project charters, RACI/ownership models, RAID logs, decision logs, communication cascade plans, project closeouts, lessons learned, and Asana/project hygiene.
  • Support change management and leader enablement as the PMO model is rolled out across the organization.
  • Help define what work should flow through the PMO and what should remain owned within departments.
  • Serve as the primary PMO owner for complex, multi-workstream programs tied to major company priorities.
  • Translate strategic priorities into coordinated program plans with clear work streams, milestones, owners, dependencies, timelines, and decision points.
  • Manage related bodies of work across departments, ensuring that connected projects remain aligned and visible.
  • Maintain program-level visibility across status, risks, blockers, dependencies, decisions needed, and resource constraints.
  • Coordinate with Strategic Owners, Executive Sponsors, functional leaders, and assigned project managers to keep work moving.
  • Ensure programs have appropriate governance, meeting cadence, reporting structure, and escalation paths.
  • Partner directly with Strategic Owners to clarify the business problem, desired outcome, scope, success measures, stakeholders, and implementation path.
  • Build and maintain project/program plans that create clarity around ownership, sequencing, milestones, risks, dependencies, and decisions.
  • Facilitate cross-functional meetings and working sessions with clear agendas, outcomes, follow-up, and accountability.
  • Identify risks and blockers early and elevate unresolved issues through the appropriate decision pathway.
  • Help ensure cross-functional work does not stall due to unclear ownership, competing priorities, missing decisions, or poor communication.
  • Support the development and maintenance of PMO portfolio dashboards.
  • Provide executive-ready updates on program health, key milestones, blockers, dependencies, and decisions needed.
  • Prepare clear summaries, status reports, and project artifacts that help leaders quickly understand progress and tradeoffs.
  • Partner with Operations leadership to make project capacity, risk, and prioritization visible.
  • Build communication cascade plans for major initiatives.
  • Partner with Strategic Owners to determine what needs to be communicated, to whom, by whom, when, and through what channels.
  • Draft or support executive updates, leader talking points, Slack messages, team cascade notes, FAQs, change impact summaries, and stakeholder updates.
  • Help ensure leadership decisions are translated into clear team-level action.
  • Lead program closeout processes, including lessons learned, reusable artifacts, decisions made, and recommendations for future work.
  • Help maintain the PMO knowledge repository.
  • Identify patterns across projects and programs that should inform future operating model improvements.
Requirements
  • 5-8+ years of experience in program management, project management, operations, business operations, strategic operations, or related roles.
  • Demonstrated experience managing complex cross-functional programs with multiple stakeholders, work streams, dependencies, and decision points.
  • Strong ability to bring structure to ambiguity and translate strategic priorities into executable plans.
  • Experience building or improving operating processes, project management systems, or cross-functional workflows.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-ready summaries and status updates.
  • Experience facilitating cross-functional meetings and driving accountability without direct authority.
  • Strong organizational skills and comfort managing multiple priorities at once.
  • Experience with project management tools such as Asana, , Jira, Smartsheet, Click Up, or similar platforms.
  • Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience helping build or mature a PMO, strategic operations function, or program management function.
  • Experience in a high-growth, scaling company.
  • Experience working across GTM, Product, Operations, CX, Finance, Risk, Legal, or People functions.
  • Familiarity with change management, communication cascade planning, or organizational operating models.
  • Experience creating dashboards, portfolio reporting, project playbooks, or reusable templates.
Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in program management and project management, with a strong focus on building and maturing PMO functions. Capable of translating strategic priorities into executable plans while managing complex cross-functional programs and facilitating effective communication across stakeholders.

Highest-signal resume keywords
  • Program Management
  • Project Management
  • Cross-Functional…
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