Senior Technical Program Manager
Seattle, OR - USA
Job Summary
Company:
The Boeing CompanyBoeings Global Talent Development and Employee Experience organization has an exciting opportunity for aSenior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join the Employee Listening Organizational Research and Talent Assessment Team in Seattle WA. The person in this role will lead operational execution program governance and delivery infrastructure for a portfolio of survey research executive assessment and pre-hire assessment programs. This role is essential to ensuring our employee listening organizational research and talent assessment programs are delivered with operational rigor scalable processes and strong cross-functional alignment enabling high-quality insights and timely business decisions.
The Senior TPM partners closely with survey research and talent assessment scientists in a co-leadership model. Scientists own the scientific workstreams including research design methodology psychometrics analysis interpretation and related follow-through actions. The Senior TPM owns the program and project management workstreams including planning coordination scheduling governance risk management stakeholder communication and execution control across both portfolio-level and workstream-level deliverables.
The ideal candidate is a highly organized hands-on leader who brings structure to complexity manages multiple interdependent workstreams drives accountability and ensures delivery with rigor transparency and timeliness. The right person will also excel at driving cross-functional alignment shaping operating mechanisms influencing without authority and making sound tradeoff recommendations in ambiguous fast-moving environments.
What Youll Do
You will own end-to-end operational execution across programs and individual workstreams from intake and prioritization through planning launch readiness delivery and post-launch partnership with program leadership you will help operationalize the research portfolio strategy priorities and success metrics translating objectives into a prioritized roadmap with clear milestones and dependencies.
You will lead individual workstreams as a project manager and execution owner building project plans tracking milestones managing cadence surfacing blockers and driving decisions to keep work moving. You will proactively identify risks reconcile tradeoffs across scope timeline cost and stakeholder value and ensure delivery remains on track. You will also maintain core program operations infrastructure including status reporting risk and issue logs dependency tracking decision logs and change control.
You will schedule and facilitate recurring team meetings planning sessions and stakeholder syncs to ensure consistent communication alignment and accountability across the team and broader cross-functional partners. You will also lead the creation and upkeep of team strategy and operations documentation including playbooks process guides and planning artifacts ensuring they remain accurate actionable and accessible.
You will help design and continuously improve delivery excellence frameworks workflows and templates that support both scientific and operational delivery. You will build visibility into program health align stakeholders across teams and ensure outputs are usable accessible and on time. You will define and apply consistent readiness and acceptance criteria for key milestones and when delivery is at risk you will drive mitigation and recovery plans.
In addition you will partner with vendors technical teams Product UX analytics and assessment scientists to coordinate data platform and workflow dependencies. You will support quarterly planning portfolio prioritization and continuous improvement efforts that strengthen delivery quality and execution rigor including retrospectives and root-cause analysis. You will help balance near-term delivery needs with technical debt and longer-term platform and process investments.
Position Responsibilities:
Leads development of the program architecture and top level plans for a program
Develops program organizational work structures top level program and execution plans
Identifies key program level horizontal and vertical integration interfaces between major activities teams suppliers partners and customers
Facilitates the resolution of program issues
Supports the program manager in leading program execution by coordinating program metrics
Integrates the implementation of the Program Management Best Practices
Implements customer and program communication and contact plans
BasicQualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
Masters Degree in a relevant field (e.g. MBA Project/Operations Management)
10 years of relevant work experience such as technical program project management or business operations
Experience with working on multiple projects/programs of various size and complexity
Experience managing or leading the planning and execution of integrated project plans (risks issues and stakeholder communications)
Experience working with scientific and technical teams
Experience leading cross-functional teams and working with senior leadership
Experience working independently in a fast paced environment with strict deadlines
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
Project management certifications such as PMP CAPM PRINCE2 PMI-ACP or Scrum Master credentials
Experience in survey research employee listening executive or leadership assessment or pre-hire/selection assessments
Experience leading multiple concurrent workstreams with competing priorities and dependencies
Experience coordinating global deployments including localization and accessibility
Experience with psychometrics and validation practices
Experience with data platforms analytics workflows and reporting systems
Experience supporting enterprise-scale programs
Experience with process improvement operating model design and change management
Experience creating durable documentation playbooks and team knowledge systems
Experience adapting project management frameworks to applied research programs
Conflict of Interest:
Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Companys Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.
Drug Free Workplace:
Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana cocaine opioids amphetamines PCP and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.
Pay & Benefits:
At Boeing we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs generally including health insurance flexible spending accounts health savings accounts retirement savings plans life and disability insurance programs and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications as well as market and business considerations.
Summary pay range: $168300 - $227700
Language Requirements:
Not ApplicableEducation:
Masters Degree or EquivalentRelocation:
Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.Export Control Requirement:
This is not an Export Control position.Safety Sensitive:
This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.Security Clearance:
This position does not require a Security Clearance.Visa Sponsorship:
Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.Contingent Upon Award Program
This position is not contingent upon program awardShift:
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