Engineering Program Manager
Engineering Program Manager
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Job Description
Role Overview :
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Program Manager to operate at the intersection of product engineering and business teams. You will be responsible for driving strategic cross-functional initiatives leading global programs and supporting engineering leadership in delivering operational excellence. You will be the central point of coordination for technical programs helping teams stay aligned on track and accountable while navigating ambiguity with confidence. You will bring structure clarity and rhythm to complex initiatives and keep things running smoothly behind the scenes.
This role is ideal for someone with a solid technical foundation sharp organizational skills ability to work with different teams and a proactive mindset for removing roadblocks and delivering results.
Key Responsibilities:
Program Planning:
- Facilitate product planning while working closely with the product and engineering teams.
- Partner with leadership to identify key cross functional programs that will help engineering operational efficiency.
- Create structure for complex programs by defining goals timelines and success metrics on high impact cross functional strategic programs.
Program Execution:
- Coordinate execution across engineering product and operations teams
- Own regular program updates and reporting to key stakeholders and execs about progress risks mitigation plans etc.
- Analyze product engineering and business metrics and synthesize complex data into clear narratives and actionable insights for decision making.
- Identify track and proactively mitigate the risks across programs by driving decisions across teams.
- Facilitate and run recurring status meetings and progress reviews with teams and stakeholders.
Engineering Operations:Support engineering leadership in preparing and running staff meetings: including designing agenda sharing pre-reads follow up on action items and outcome tracking.
- Drive planning and execution of engineering all hands meeting: including crafting content building presentations and managing logistics.
- Assess existing processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement in planning delivery and quality.
- Support adoption of processes tool workflows and best practices across eng org.
What are we looking for:
- 5-8 years of experience in program management or technical operations preferably in a high growth SaaS or deep tech environment.
- Experience in a technical program/project management role within an engineering organization
- Proven success managing global cross functional programs with complex interdependencies
- Strong operational acumen: business system and process understanding ability to analyze data and identify patterns.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills: ability to distill complex updates into clear concise narratives.
- Experience working closely with engineering product and business teams.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and bringing structure in unstructured environments
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle agile methodologies and best practices in product development.
- A proactive hands on leader who can drive outcomes independently.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Background in engineering product or analytics a strong plus
- Experience supporting leadership at a VP or C level
- Prior experience with tools like JIRA confluence nation tableau/looker and project management tools
- Strong design for building decks and story telling in executive forums
- Understanding of SDLC and product release processes
Work Location
- Bangalore. The successful candidate will be expected to be in the Bangalore office 3x/ week.
What You Will Have at Harness
- Experience building a transformative product
- End-to-end ownership of your projects
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive healthcare benefit
- Flexible work schedule
- Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
- Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
- Monthly quarterly and annual social and team building events
- Monthly internet reimbursement
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex or national origin.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
