Senior Program Manager

Position Description

The Program Management Office (PMO) at PubMatic fuels the prioritization and execution of corporate strategies. Members of the Program Management team lead critical, cross-functional, and complex initiatives to completion by ensuring that geographically distributed teams execute seamlessly.

The Senior Program Manager role will report to the Director of PMO and will bear extreme importance due to the nature of its duties. This role will have the following main areas of responsibility:

• Management of cross-functional programs aligned with product verticals. In this capacity, the Senior Program Manager will partner with Business, Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market leaders to identify, prioritize, plan, execute, launch, and close complex product development initiatives.
• Management of strategic initiatives with Go-To-Market (GTM) focus. The Senior Program Manager will collaborate with Product, GTM, Customer Success, and Business Leaders to plan and execute programs and task forces involving internal and external stakeholders.
• Partner with Engineering, Technology, and leadership to identify and spearhead the execution of technology initiatives aimed at improving software development processes, internal applications, and PubMatic global IT infrastructure.
• Identifying challenges, opportunities, and areas of improvement; implementing enterprise-level transformational measures to address the same. This includes process proposal, definition, implementation, rollout and training, periodic refinement, continuous compliance, and reporting.

Responsibilities:

Following are some key duties this role will perform:

• Manage initiation, planning, execution, launch, and closure phases of programs. Ensure alignment of all program stakeholders behind overall objectives.
• Lead day-to-day execution of programs while keeping sight of strategic goals and working with teams comprising highly accomplished engineering, product, QA, customer success, business, and Go-To-Market leads.
• Interact with executives from multiple functions daily to facilitate informed decision-making. Proactively manage risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Partner with Product and Engineering Managers to contribute towards product roadmap planning, resource planning, and prioritization tradeoffs.
• Ensure established agile product development best practices are adhered to.
• Collaborate with other program managers to ensure consistent application of best practices across the board.
• Set a gold standard for concise, polished, and crisp communication.
• Define, evangelize, and manage the evolution of custom processes and frameworks into process and execution gaps.
• Publish periodic progress reports on programs and process compliance for executives and key stakeholders.
• Be a catalyst for organizational change, lead without authority, and handle evolving change efforts by establishing excellent rapport with stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a strongly associated discipline.
• In-depth and practical knowledge of agile product development methodologies.
• At least 15 years of overall experience, of which 7 years in program management or similar experience where the candidate has led complex cross-functional initiative end to end.
• At least 3 years of experience interacting (presenting, facilitating decisions making) with VP and C-Level managers.
• Must be technically savvy and completely at ease with leading successful engineering focused discussions.
• Impeccable written and verbal communication skills – ability to tailor the communication style to suit the audience and the situation.
• Pragmatic and logical approach – ability to rein in creative minds at the right time to ensure focus on execution.
• Ability to quickly understand context and apply big picture thinking to achieve tangible results.
• Exemplary time-management and multi-tasking skills.
• Excellent conflict management skills.
• Excellent attention to details.
• Get-it-done mindset and a hands-on approach to managing teams.
• Well versed with collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence.
• Biased towards action and a great sense of accountability and ownership for end-to-end program life cycle.

Nice to Have:

• Prior Ad-tech experience
• Master’s degree in business management, Project Management or strongly associated discipline
• Prior consulting experience with a leading IT Consulting firm
• Scrum (Product Owner and Scrum Master) and PMP certification