Technology Program Manager

Technology Program Manager We are a yoga-inspired technical apparel company up to big things. The practice and philosophy of yoga informs our overall purpose to elevate the world through the power of practice. We are proud to be a growing global company with locations all around the world, from Vancouver to Shanghai, and places in between. We owe our success to our innovative product, our emphasis on our stores, our commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we get to make in every community we are in.

The Technology Program Manager will play a key role on our Global Marketing and Brand Technology space. This person will be an advocate for program and project management across the organization and key in enabling business leaders and teams to the possibilities of new insights and ideas through data. This position will work extensively with business units, project stakeholders, and technology team members to define, implement, sustain and leverage our data ecosystem across our programs.

We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual who is excited about delivering data-driven capabilities to meet our growing insights, analytics and intelligence capabilities leveraging the best-in-class industry proven solutions. This individual must have a track record of working in a collaborative environment and should take pride in evolving the entire organization to create the future data technology platform for growth. This person should have experience in retail and a background in program and project management working in a technology organization.

A day in the life:

The Program Manager is responsible for the overall delivery of either a group of related projects, 1-2 programs across 3+ functions, or 3+ well established and mature scrum/operational teams.

The Program Manager oversees the Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Engineers responsible for tactical delivery of key projects within the program that could be agile OR waterfall. They will work closely with the business/product partners, technology/business stakeholders, architecture, portfolio & core delivery teams.

Responsible for overall delivery of a well-established capability in the program from planning to development that serves a long-term business objective OR responsible for 2-3 scrum/operational teams

Manages the assigned program including but not limited to managing established and mature products, teams, capability or category or technology solution implementation or migration

Creates overall timeline, stakeholder analysis, communication plan, cross-functional dependencies, reporting structure to track progress across multiple workstreams with guidance from Sr. Program Manager or Technology Manager

Unblocks the team and proactively problem solves as needed throughout the program lifecycle with guidance from Sr. Program Manager or Technology Manager

Effectively identifies and solves for potential risks, issues, and development strategies to prevent realization of risks while providing transparency to the applicable stakeholders

Validates that the project delivers the expected outcomes with quality and supports business objectives

Guides and coaches the Project Managers to ensure the objectives of a project are understood, documented, and measurable.

Manages Program budget (actuals & forecast)

Manages the onboarding & offboarding of resources

Owns program related resource management and 3rd party vendor management. Point of Contact for Procurement, Security, Legal, Stakeholder Management (Sponsor, Leadership, Architects)

Develops relationships and collaborates with internal and external stakeholders across regions (NA, EMEA, APAC, China) and cross functional teams to ensure solutions meet timeline and business objectives.

Ensures all project/program tasks are clearly understood, assigned, and tracked.

Qualifications:

5+ years in technology or related field w/ 5+ yrs exp in project management, 1-2 yrs in program management scrum/safe or other agile practice certification required if leading a scrum team.

Thorough understanding of technology domain, stack, and skills.

Proven experience in leading the strategic path and delivery of multiple portfolio management capabilities such as but not limited to, onboarding, recruiting, vendor management, capacity management, dependency management, resource management, annual planning process, workforce management etc.

Ability to operate with low degree of ambiguity, leveraging existing processes and tools with guidance from Technology Manager

Proven experience managing budget of >=$1M capex annually or size of initiative along with experience in forecasting.

Experience in managing waterfall, hybrid & agile delivery teams

Proven track record and experience working in a global company with technology teams in India and North America

Passion for problem solving w/ an ability to excel in an ambiguous environment

Demonstrated ability to function in a fast paced, multi-program environment with changing priorities

Ability to anticipate potential problems and proactively troubleshoot to resolve issues

Strong leadership skills, including the ability to influence and gain consensus in the absence of direct authority

Proven results working with global and remote teams across different time zones

Must haves:

Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.

Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.

Communicates with honesty and kindness and creates the space for others to do the same.

Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.

Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.

Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously.

Required Skills: Program Management, Technical Support, Planning. Additional Skills: Program Manager. This is a high PRIORITY requisition.