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The Impact of a Sr. Technical Program Manager to Coupa:
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What You'll Do:
- Responsible for technical project planning (including release planning), management, and oversight for key initiatives across the whole engineering organization including development and cloud operations
- Ability to understand the technical details and drive the projects through all phases from design to implementation and post-implementation monitoring/support
- Ability to scale the PMO function by rolling out program frameworks, tooling and automation
- Manages and appropriately escalates: delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes associated with the product development initiatives
- Focused on the end goal and ability to define clear success criteria and drive the team to deliver on the same
- Guiding and Coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of different teams and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving
- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
- Must be on the ground and understand the details to facilitate discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
What will you bring to Coupa:
- 8+ total years of being a Technical Program Manager or Technical/Engineering leader
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field preferred. MBA desired.
- Prior experience in release planning and management is highly desirable
- Strong technical skills and excellent organization/prioritization/communication skills
- Highly organized, great attention to detail, follow-up and follow-through, prioritizing across multiple concurrent initiatives and shifting demands
- Demonstrated experience in planning and managing complex release cycles from planning, tracking, sign-offs, deployments to post-deployment activities
- Must have demonstrated experience in building highly scalable frameworks and programs to support large engineering initiatives
- Must have hands-on experience working on complex projects touching various components across applications and stack layers
- Must have demonstrated skills to effectively balance multiple work streams with correct prioritization and attention to detail
- Experience on SaaS-based projects and working knowledge of cloud-based software
- Must understand how software gets shipped and all the pieces that need to fall into place with some experience with Jenkins/GitHub etc.
- Detailed knowledge of Jira workflows and setup administration. Hands on experiencepreferred
- Ability to successfully collaborate and work in a truly global team setup across different time zones
- Is a self-starter with great attention to detail and follow-through and who is resourceful and adept at managing through chaos to reach a goal
- Experience with onboarding of new acquisitions/teams and lead discussions on transition and streamlining of tools/practices/workflows is desirable
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