The Red Hat Portfolio Lifecycle Management is looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to join us. We work with geographically distributed representatives across Engineering Business Unit (BU) Sales Security Support Legal Finance and other extended teams. As a Principal Technical Program Manager we are the subject matter experts in program management and change standards able to apply our skills and experience to foster collaboration across different functions. We help to motivate and drive accountability of the teams commitments and deliverables while keeping an eye on continuous improvement.
Coordinate reporting across multiple teams dealing with all aspects of organizational-wide change to the program and product teams that use standard release processes across the portfolio.
Understand and proactively inform teams of schedules for active and upcoming key milestones of our offerings.
Identify program challenges and drive risk management activities and mitigation plans.
Proactively direct potential issues and obstacles to appropriate functional teams. Highlight and track dependencies that cross teams or functions.
Lead strategic planning activities with the cross-functional stakeholders to design an achievable program with inclusive and transparent guidance.
Develop and nurture key relationships and the engagement with stakeholders from multiple functional groups.
Foster collaboration trust and accountability for departmental and cross-functional teams.
Identify and enable continuous improvements. Be both flexible and adaptable to changing demands on the program based on the needs of the business.
Evaluate initiative performance and health metrics and facilitate adjustments.
Support and maintain multi product reporting rollups for executive review.
8 years of overall experience in software development and delivery with 5 years specifically in technical program or project management roles.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical and program information concisely to diverse audiences (executive leaders engineering product teams).
Industry-standard Change Management training and/or certification such as Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP) or Prosci Certified Change Practitioner.
Ability to influence and motivate teams without direct authority fostering a collaborative and productive environment.
Expertise with various program management methodologies (Agile Scrum Waterfall etc.) with the ability to adapt them based on program needs to help drive efficiency and optimize execution.
Capacity to identify analyze and resolve risks and roadblocks that arise during program execution.
Ability to define meaningful metrics track progress and use data to inform program direction.
Engage build connections and manage expectations of various stakeholders ensuring their needs are considered and communicated.
Proficiency with work management tools such as Atlassian Jira Smartsheets and Google Gemini.
PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or other industry recognized certifications are a plus.
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