Senior Technical Program Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Technical Program Manager Product Development - AI

An industry-leading tech company

At Zendesk we get passionate about building software that delivers the ultimate customer experience. Your favorite brands maximize our products to engage you as a customer and we lead the industry with beautifully simple software. Were constantly innovating and we apply this philosophy to all prioritized initiatives.

Job Summary

As a Senior Program Manager on our Product Development team youll work with Product Management and Engineering to define and execute the roadmap for capabilities that allow Zendesk to provide a fully integrated scalable and easy-to-use Customer and Employee Service solution. Youll work side-by-side with our AI teams (AI Agents Copilot QA and more) and its numerous internal stakeholders to drive solutions for cross-product/cross-functional problems and initiatives. This also includes unifying the customer experience for using all of our AI products. Additionally you will leverage your knowledge and expertise to enhance decision-making processes and improve program outcomes.

What Youll Be Doing

• Lead company-wide programs with broad impact. Liaising with Product Development teams and teams outside of Product Development including Product Marketing Enterprise Data & Analytics Legal Finance and Go-to-Market. Youll keep releases moving forward in a multi-geo environment focusing on key achievements to bring new products and services to market.

• Guide your teams through our quarterly planning process helping to build out roadmaps align dependencies and broker commitments from other teams.

• Identify track and mitigate all risks and issues within your programs.

• Own regular status reporting for your teams.

• Facilitate meetings workshops retrospectives and other team ceremonies.

• Build positive relationships with your team members and partners. You will be partnering with other program managers in the AI space.

• Devote effort towards making our processes simpler clearer and better every day.

What You Bring to the Role

• Prior experience at a software company driving programs within an Engineering organization and having released at least three large scale releases.

• Strong understanding of AI technologies tools and AI in general

• Familiarity with Technical Program Management tools and agile methodologies: Jira Confluence Trello Kanban

• Experience in identifying and calculating inherent risks determining their impact and providing appropriate mitigation planning.

• Strong demonstrable facilitation skills with a knack for building bridges between teams across multiple locations.

• Experience working across multiple global programs simultaneously.

That said if your experience looks a little different from what weve identified and you think you can rock the role wed love to learn more about you!.

Zendesk builds software for better customer relationships. It empowers organizations to improve customer engagement and better understand their customers. Zendesk products are easy to use and implement. They give organizations the flexibility to move quickly focus on innovation and scale with their growth.

More than 100000 paid customer accounts in over 150 countries and territories use Zendesk products. Based in San Francisco Zendesk has operations in the United States Europe Asia Australia and South America.

Interested in knowing what we do in the community Check out the Zendesk Neighbor Foundation to learn more about how we engage with and provide support to our local communities.

EEO Statement

Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer and were proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Zendesk are considered without regard to race color religion national origin age sex gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation marital status medical condition ancestry physical or mental disability military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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Hybrid: In this role our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection collaboration learning and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.

The intelligent heart of customer experience

Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.

Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working enables us to purposefully come together in person at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world to connect collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

As part of our commitment to fairness and transparency we inform all applicants that artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision systems may be used to screen or evaluate applications for this position in accordance with Company guidelines and applicable law.

Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer and were proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity equity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race color religion national origin age sex gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation marital status medical condition ancestry disability military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law please click here.

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