Remote Work: Hybrid
Overview:
At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working to make everyday life better. United by curiosity and care, we develop dynamic solutions that anticipate our customer's and partner's needs and solve their challenges.
Being a part of Zebra Nation means being seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our diverse perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are a part of a team pushing boundaries to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.
You have opportunities to learn and lead at a forward-thinking company, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes that you care about – locally and globally. We've only begun reimaging the future – for our people, our customers, and the world.
Let's create tomorrow together.
Technical and solutions senior program manager responsible for leading agile cross-functional team of Systems and SW Engineers, Test Engineers, Operations, etc. from initial concept to deployment.
Meets complex program goals for product performance, quality goals, regulatory compliance requirements, cost, schedule and development budget. Also responsible for working with Product Management,
Marketing, and Experience Designers to define the product, solidify the business case, and author the product and experience specifications. Given our multitude of design and development partners,
participates with negotiations involving Business Development and Legal.
Responsibilities:
Drive execution of solutions inclusive of concept definition, requirements validation, architecture
specification, and governance compliance to our Application Lifecycle Management framework.
Ability to translate customer problems into solution requirements.
Team leadership for scaled Agile cross-functional innovation teams. Contribute to and promote the
development of agile skillset and capabilities within Zebra. Execute multiple limited scope projects
simultaneously or a large program with senior manager's guidance utilizing modern project
management methodologies to ensure maximum project effectiveness.
Organize and lead scrum teams as an agile scrum master (SM) or a release train engineer (RTE)
Leads system integration planning, release management, and planning for demonstrations, proof of
concepts and pilots.
Leads creating cross functional workstreams and driving execution for sales enablement,
development and deployment.
Independently building relationships and working across all relevant areas of the solution business
including Sales, Services, IT, Finance, Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Support.
Works independently with business in defining proof of value and customer's return on investment.
Organizes and presents business, technical and program reviews/status to Senior Leadership using
digital media, dashboards and JIRA agile project management tools.
Independently execute to program plan and budgets for multiple, large projects. Recommend
corrective actions and implement changes. Identify and mitigate risks; develop and implement risk
mitigation plans. Owns ensuring alignment from key leaders of milestone achievement before moving
the program forward.
Motivate a project team to ensure solutions are reliable and of quality, in a highly collaborative
fashion
Demonstrates the ability to see cross-functional impacts of decisions and project plans and
execution. Balances scope, schedule and budget considerations to adjust the project with minimal
impact to the business. Understands the business objectives of the program and assumes personal
accountability for success of the program against those objectives.
Provides assistance with coordination of deliverables and project assets to assist the project
team. Personally anticipates and addresses obstacles or issues that are moderate to significant in
severity and escalates complex issues to management for assistance. Independently engages
additional resources as needed to address obstacles or delays. Adjusts the plan per management
guidelines as delays or obstacles are experienced.
Demonstrates intermediate understanding of development processes and product launch scope
and activities
Very limited supervision by management is expected in this position for complex or novel
problems.
May coach or act as escalation point for level 1 or level 2 Program Managers
Supports early stage go to market activities and transition to marketing
Develop and protect intellectual property; be well versed with IP fundamentals.
Explore and understand competitive landscape in both product and business terms
Qualifications:
BS Electrical Engineering or Computer Science degree, or
related technical BS degree, MS preferred
5-8 years Engineering/Program management and Scrum Master
experience for products in fast paced environment
Intermediate to advanced leadership and analytical skills
Intermediate to advanced written and oral
communication skills
Solid critical thinking and questioning skills
Experience leading medium cross-functional teams
Self-motivated, results driven, manages risks, and thrives
in an environment of uncertainty and continuous innovation.
Experienced team builder, great at collaboration and
managing resources; proven interpersonal skills
Past responsibility for multiple significant delivered-tomarket solutions in asset intelligence (Location Services,
Machine Learning, Machine Vision).
Experience with software development best practices
including Scaled Agile, TDD and Continuous Integration; a track
record of applying these methodologies
Experience with Cloud development and
Software/Services development integration, as well as mobile
application development for Android or iOS.
Experience working independently and as part of a team
to solve difficult technical, quality, cost, and schedule
challenges; well versed in risk management practices
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