Program Manager - Agile

Company: Way Forward Consulting
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: March 21, 2025

Job Description:

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Read on to find out what you will need to succeed in this position, including skills, qualifications, and experience.

We are looking for a highly motivated and self-driven individual with a strong background in program management with expertise in Agile methodologies to lead and deliver complex projects across global teams. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving large-scale software projects and building long-term scalable solutions while adopting Agile principles to optimize the development process and enhance collaboration within cross-functional teams.



Responsibilities:

- This role requires strong collaboration with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Privacy, Security and Senior leadership to execute, track and deliver high impact strategic programs in the Samsung Ads space.

- Build, grow and maintain a sustainable scaled Agile delivery model

- Work with the team to collaborate and develop end-to-end program plans, influence teams to deliver against them, and keep the org and leadership informed on progress.

- Drive engagement with internal partners, work to decompose requirements into plans with measurable milestones.

- Establish and maintain Agile ways of working governance model

- Coach leaders, teams and scrum masters in Agile practices and mindsets like program incremental planning, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives etc.

- Groom the team on iterative and program incremental approach to delivering software projects that focus on continuous releases incorporating customer feedback

- Produce program reports for stakeholders, identify and mitigate program risks early

- Conduct scrum of scrums and steering committee meetings to bring alignment.

- Provide uniform stakeholder experience through consistent communication, program status transparency, resource requirements, priorities, risks, and issues.



Required Skills and Experiences

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field or equivalent experience.

- 10+ years in project/program management role managing software development with a minimum of 4 years of experience mentoring/coaching Agile practitioners.

- Strong understanding of SDLC and expertise in Agile concepts including Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework.

- Experience in facilitating organizational, mindset and cultural change for large scale Agile Transformations.

- Direct experience working with technology and tools used to support Agile practices - hands on experience with JIRA, GitHub and Confluence.

- Demonstrated experience in planning, scheduling, managing software from ideation to release with global cross functional teams

- Engaging facilitator and presenter, capable of conducting workshops with large teams

- Exceptional skills in leadership, time management, facilitation, and organization

- Strong problem-solving and organizational skills, attention to detail with an ability to multitask.

- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

- Experience in managing AdTech related programs is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

--- Experience in the digital advertising, Mobile, and/or Smart TV space a plus. --- Demonstrated experience in shipping consumer and/or enterprise solutions. --- PMP and SAFe certification a plus.

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