Program Manager

Ascendion is a full service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

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Title:
Construction Program Manager 4
Location:
Redmond,WA

Explain a typical day in the role.:

• A typical day will involve driving the operational execution of multiple EOP programs and initiatives, participating in and facilitating a high volume of meetings and working sessions, coordinating across stakeholders, maintaining program governance, and ensuring decisions and commitments translate into action.
• Own the day‑to‑day operational management of the DCBM AMERS Tools for Success Power App, maintaining it as a reliable source of truth for key resources such as templates, checklists, reports, playbooks, and supporting guidance. Manage resource updates, access needs, requests, and stakeholder feedback.
• Drive assigned programs and initiatives from planning through execution, translating leadership strategy and direction into organized work plans, milestones, actions, and deliverables.
• Own program and initiative governance by maintaining trackers, monitoring progress, following up with accountable owners, identifying gaps, and ensuring commitments are driven to completion.
• Participate in and support a high volume of meetings, working sessions, and program forums across EOP and cross‑functional stakeholder groups. Effectively balance meeting commitments with ongoing program management and execution responsibilities.
• Produce timely, high‑quality, and accurate meeting notes within 24 hours of assigned meetings.
• Synthesize discussions into clear documentation of key decisions, action items, owners, target dates, risks, dependencies, and unresolved topics.
• Manage the operational rhythm of key meetings and working sessions, including agenda development, stakeholder coordination, facilitation, documentation of decisions and actions, and post‑meeting follow‑through.
• Drive accountability following meetings and program reviews by translating discussions into clear actions and tracking commitments through completion or appropriate escalation.
• Provide clear program visibility through structured reporting that summarizes progress, accomplishments, upcoming milestones, risks, dependencies, blockers, and decisions needed for EOP leadership.
• Proactively identify and manage program risks, issues, and dependencies, resolving routine blockers where possible and escalating items requiring leadership guidance or decisions.
• Develop high‑quality program documentation and communications, including process documentation, runbooks, templates, checklists, status reports, presentations, training materials, and formal communications.
• Partner with the Senior Program Manager to operationalize EOP priorities…