Principal Technical Program Manager, Seismic
$137.4-237.1k
Enterprise sales enablement software
Open for applications
Enterprise sales enablement software
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$137.4-237.1k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower thousands of teams to grow and win.
Role
Who you are
- Highly functional in a dynamic, energizing environment
- Love to wear multiple hats
- Comfortable traversing between the tactical and the strategic
- You bring order and process not for the sake of process, but for the sake of efficiency
- You are able to speak across functions and with everyone from executives to individual contributors
- You are technically minded and understand the day-to-day operations of a well-established engineering org
- You can influence across teams and stakeholders without having “formal authority”
- Bachelor’s degree and minimum 15 years of experience or advanced degree and 12 years of experience running software engineering programs. Practical experience in Agile methodologies; Scrum Master certification a plus
- Strong software engineering technical background with a real passion for delivering high performance, quality software. Knowledge of Cloud infrastructure and networking technologies is a plus
- Experience in software development and project/program management processes and Best Practices (software development process and quality processes, such as planning, scoping, costs, schedules, initiatives, change and risk management, and mitigation)
- Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal and analytical skills. Excellent organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills
- Strong understanding of both product and program management techniques (Agile, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, OKRs)
- Extraordinary skills influencing, teaming, and delivering solutions in a highly complex environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
- Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently in a constantly evolving fast-paced environment with changing priorities and to inspire change across Seismic engineering teams
- Experience working with various project management tools such as Jira and Confluence
What the job involves
- As a Principal Technical Program Manager at Seismic, you will work closely with our Engineering teams to establish, organize, execute, and monitor inter-connected projects
- You will help bring operational excellence and clarity to complex matters within our Engineering Operations and be seen as a go-to resource for process topics and status updates on highly visible and important programs
- Deliver and support multiple projects and programs, on time, within budget and on target
- Use your strong technical background to ensure a complex project with multiple dependencies moves forward according to your project roadmap
- Create and manage execution plans and risk plans at scrum and portfolio level
- Facilitate and organize program meetings, release planning, demos, retrospectives and agile ceremonies
- Communicate with management, developers, product managers, product owners and support specialists on product issues and continuously improve inter-team communications
- Create alignment through the development and release process, working closing with Engineering and DevOps
- Be responsible for the success of key software releases at Seismic. Be the credible and trusted leader to deliver these releases to customers on plan and with high quality
- Drive the planning and execution of releases from concept to GA. Lead a delivery team of Product Managers, Engineering, Design, QA and other functional teams to deliver throughout all the release phases
- Build and run, with the team, the release master plan (schedule, dependencies, risks, etc.). Use your technical background and product knowledge to dedicatedly identify risks, issues and drive their resolution
- Be the authority on the software delivery life cycle processes and champion standard methodologies, metrics and high-quality standards with your delivery team
- Independently and accurately report on the state of your release to executive partners and be the trusted speaker on the state of release in key checkpoint reviews
- Maintain consistently high standards of communication, productivity and teamwork
- Work with the engineering teams to identify and remove cross-product roadblocks
- Make constant assessments of feature pipeline, work done and work quality to support decision-making on release delivery schedule
Our take
Seismic is a sales enablement software used by 100s of large companies to help them improve sales and marketing efforts.
Sales enablement — that is, resources that help teams close deals more effectively — is a market that's growing strongly, as companies look to improve the productivity of their teams by using data. Seismic leverages machine learning to automate key parts of the sales and marketing cycle and to personalize documents for individual sales reps.
With substantial rounds of funding behind it, Seismic has been living up to its name by being announced as a Global Leader in its sector in late 2022 by Forrester Research. With a number of acquisitions that complement its services, Seismic has been savvy in its navigation of a prolonged period of growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
31% female employees
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2021
$170m
SERIES G
Sep 2020
$92m
SERIES F
Total funding: $446.5m
Company benefits
- Generous paid vacation, sick leave, and holiday benefits, including an end-of-year company shutdown
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible work schedule
- Seismic Cares employee volunteer program
- #OneSeismic culture that celebrates wins, encourages autonomy, ownership, and transparency
Company values
- We are inclusive
- We seek to understand
- We champion the customer
- We are vulnerable
- We strive for excellence
- We celebrate success
Company HQ
Carmel Valley, San Diego, CA
Articles
Leadership
Doug Winter
(CEO)Also co-founded Objectiva Software Solutions. Previously served as Chief Operations Officer at EMC Document Sciences.
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