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About the Role:
We are CrowdStrike, a fast-growing security company that protects our wide range of customers from cybersecurity attacks. 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.
As a Program Manager, you'll be responsible for supporting the Falcon For IT product. Falcon For IT is our newest product release which helps IT and Security teams get answers to the most difficult questions about their infrastructure, apps and endpoints, utilizing our Charlotte AI to ease usability and speedup response and remediation of issues.
The product is a cloud based solution allowing customers to query their entire endpoints to address IT challenges working in synergy with our Sensor, which is a driver installed on client machines that observes system activity and apps, recognizes malicious behavior, then provides on-box prevention capability and remote telemetry to the cloud.
Your primary focus will entail driving the scheduling, scoping and end-to-end execution of projects for the team, working directly with Engineering Developers, Product Managers, and Dev Managers to ensure timely delivery against the roadmap. You will work closely across functional teams, and across geo-locations in Europe, the United Kingdom, Israel, and the United States to collaborate and ensure dependencies are well known, critical issues are identified and driven to resolution.
What You'll Do:
- Partnering and direct facilitation with teams at all levels; from in the weeds with developers on projects to summations at the executive level.
- Demonstrates the ability to learn and communicate technical context and align i t with business objectives to help drive project deliverables, resources, and timelines.
- Creating and driving the project schedule, working with dev management task assignments, and managing schedule progress; from large phases through to detailed tasks, including understanding and managing dependencies within and across Product Groups.
- Collaborating with staff and management of multiple worldwide business units (including subject matter experts, product management, design teams, and technology teams) to clearly identify, explain, and communicate their project involvement, project goals, expectations, and tasks.
- Proactively tracks the status of project activities and ensures that schedules and priorities are being met.
- Ensures critical issues are identified, tracked through resolution, and escalated if necessary.
- Proactively manages daily/weekly project communication and status reporting.
- Leads Scrum meetings and creates and follows up on meeting minutes/action items.
- Flexibly working across timezones to help coordinate and follow up on work.
- Willingness to travel both locally and internationally several times a quarter.
- Must be proficient in the use of Jira (query/ticket creation, board creation and facilitation).
- 7+ years of experience working in a program/project management capacity for software development.
- Experience with/exposure to large scale platforms (cloud technologies), complex inter-dependent technologies.
- Seasoned team coach that manages and alleviates (instead of running from) persistent obstacles
- Experience with Software Development Lifecycle and Project Management Methodologies, specifically Agile/Scrum. Experience with Scaled Agile Framework methodology a plus.
- Experience owning a program/ portfolio of products/features, scoping requirements, planning milestones, and being an active resource for technical teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
- Must enjoy consensus-driven environments where collaboration, honest and open communications are paramount.
- Must work effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team.
- Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail, and have the ability to make logical, timely decisions.
- Excel at proactively and independently driving results in small team environments.
- Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment.
- Ability to extrapolate context from complex technical conversations, and provide teams with valuable summations around action items and next steps.
In order to highlight what would make you a valuable asset to the CrowdStrike
Program Management team, we'd like to know what a day in your "project management" life looks like. More specifically, please tell us about a single project in particular which required your leadership and fortitude to turn the tides of potential disaster. Using an intro paragraph to provide a brief summary of the problem the project was looking to solve and no more than 10 bullet points of "Actions Taken" by you specifically that led to the project's successful outcome.
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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:
- Remote-first culture
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards with option to participate in ESPP in eligible countries
- Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements
- Physical and mental wellness programs
- Paid parental leave, including adoption
- A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities
- Access to CrowdStrike University, LinkedIn Learning and Jhanna
- Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration
- Birthday time-off in your local country
- Work with people who are passionate in our mission and Great Place to Work certified across the globe
CrowdStrike is committed to maintaining an environment of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact Recruiting@crowdstrike.com , for further assistance.