Senior Program Manager

OREGON EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT - Salem, OR

Part-time - Mid Level

Salem, OR

About the position

The Senior Program Manager will lead cross-functional teams to design and implement technical solutions that address business challenges in a fast-paced, agile environment. This role emphasizes influence over authority, requiring strong collaboration and communication skills to drive projects from initiation to delivery while ensuring they meet budget and schedule constraints.

Responsibilities

• Define project scopes and plan schedules focusing on automation and efficiency.
• Organize and lead project status and working meetings.
• Prepare and distribute progress reports.
• Manage risks and issues, correcting deviations from plans.
• Perform delivery planning for assigned projects.
• Monitor projects from initiation through delivery, ensuring completion on schedule and within budget.
• Assign and monitor work of systems analysis and program staff, providing technical support and direction.
• Collaborate with partners in program and product management, operations, and engineering to build solutions that meet customer needs.

Requirements

• 3 to 5 years of experience as a hands-on technical project/program manager, preferably in a related industry.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with experience interacting with business and engineering staff at all levels.
• Solid analytical, planning, and interpersonal skills to handle competing demands.
• Strong knowledge of business needs and ability to maintain customer trust and confidence.
• Experience with technical design discussions and summarizing complex trade-offs in documentation.
• Ability to represent engineering perspectives to partner organizations and executive leadership.
• Experience working across multiple geographies and cultures.

Nice-to-haves

• 7 to 10 years of project management, product design, or related experience.
• Experience managing cloud development or operational projects.
• Thorough understanding of public cloud infrastructure services such as Compute, Storage, Identity, and Networking.
• Experience in cloud operations.