Sr. Program Manager - Engineer, CTIO; Hybrid

Position: Sr. Program Manager - Engineer, CTIO (Hybrid)
As a global leader in cybersecurity, Crowd Strike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn't changed - we're here to stop breaches, and we've redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. Our customers span all industries, and they count on Crowd Strike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward.

We're also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every Crowd Striker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We're always looking to add talented Crowd Strikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters?

The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

We're investing in program managers who are energetic, eager to learn, flexible and capable of managing large scale/complex engineering projects in a fast-paced environment through innovative AI-enhanced approaches.

As a Program Manager, you'll be responsible for directly supporting and engaging in the work and projects of the CTIO team. The CTIO ensures Crowd Strike maintains its position as a technology leader by fostering engineering excellence, aligning technical capabilities with business objectives, and anticipating emerging threats and market trends.

We're seeking a Senior Program Manager to join a growing team, where you will be deeply embedded with engineering teams and partners across the organization to drive complex platform engineering programs. You will be responsible for providing hands-on program leadership and direct support to the CTIO organization's sensor, cloud engineering, and research teams, leveraging both traditional program practices and innovative, AI-enhanced approaches.

This role involves managing multiple cross-team projects and programs as well as developing AI-powered solutions that automate routine tasks, surface insights, and enhance decision-making for the team. You'll work closely with the teams and across geo-locations in the United States, Europe and India to collaborate and ensure dependencies are well known, critical issues are identified and driven to resolution.

Location:

* This is a hybrid role based out of either our offices in Redmond, WA, Sunnyvale, CA, or Austin, TX, with an expectation of being in the office at least 2 days per week.

What You'll Do:

Traditional Program Management (70%):

* Partner and facilitate directly with sensor engineering, cloud engineering, and research teams at all levels; from debugging deployment issues with engineers to providing executive updates on project initiatives

* Demonstrate technical fluency in architecture, cloud infrastructure, build systems, and platform engineering practices in order to align with business objectives and drive project deliverables, resources, and timelines

* Drive technical decision-making processes, facilitating discussions between engineering teams to resolve architectural challenges, infrastructure dependencies, and build system optimizations, exercising sound judgment in decisions involving people, data, and technology trade-offs

* Create and drive project delivery schedules for endpoint and cloud platform initiatives, working with engineering management on task assignments and managing progress of portfolio phases through detailed implementation tasks, including dependencies within and across teams

* Collaborate with multiple worldwide business units (including platform engineers, cloud engineers, SREs, product management, and other engineering teams) to clearly identify, explain, and communicate project involvement, goals, expectations, and deliverables for programs, ensuring alignment with strategic imperatives and customer-facing security capabilities

* Proactively track status of engineering activities and ensure schedules and priorities are met for releases

* Ensure critical infrastructure issues are identified, tracked through resolution, and escalated appropriately, creatively addressing complex problems and managing…