[KITlist-Tech] Program Manager (San Francisco Bay Area, CA)

Please direct your responses to: jobs@griddynamics.com

About the Company
Grid Dynamics designs and builds massively scalable mission-critical systems. We help customers such as Cisco, PayPal, eBay, Macy’s, KLA-Tencor, GE, Agilent and Microsoft create systems and products that handle exceptional peak loads, scale on demand and always stay up.
Using the latest advances in grid and cloud computing we turn monolithic software into scalable services and static server farms into virtualized compute clouds. The results: better performance, higher availability, faster time-to-market and much lower costs.
Our team consists of 280 exceptionally passionate software engineers and scientists who love tackling difficult problems. Over the past five years we have a developed a track record for innovation and quality with nearly every one of our customers.
In 2009, Grid Dynamics was named as one of the top cloud computing players by Cloud Computing Journal and was nominated as one of Microsoft’s “Start-up to Watch”. In 2010, Grid Dynamics was selected as one of the eight Harvard Business School (HBS) Alumni Association of Northern California’s “HBS Promising Start-ups”. For more information on us, please visit our website: www.griddynamics.com

To support our growth we are hiring and have multiple job openings.

Job Opening #4: Program Manager

Responsibilities:
PROGRAM EXECUTION: Owns end-to-end delivery and P&L responsibility for one or several programs. Some of these initiatives have multi-million dollar budgets. Drives cross-functional execution of the program, from requirements definition to delivery and ensures that a program delivers on time with high quality, in accordance with stated business and technical objectives.
PLANNING & TRACKING: Creates, optimizes, and drives structured schedules and project plans across projects and cross-functional teams. Sets and meets deadlines with quality deliverables, effectively adapting and modifying plans based on changing data or conditions. Tracks open issues and effectively negotiate to impact decisions and trade-offs and to guide issues within internal and external groups to resolution. Holds program team members accountable for their commitments, milestones, resources, and deliverables.
RISK MGMT & PROBLEM SOLVING: Anticipates, identifies, documents, and manages key program risks, proposing appropriate mitigation and contingency plans. Identifies cross-functional dependencies and tracks and reports on their progress. Proposes workable solutions to problems by analyzing business and technical trade-offs among alternatives, and uses objective judgment and influence to formulate and drive consensus on recommendations.
PRIORITIZATION: Balances process compliance with critical few and achievement of business objectives to consistently make the right strategic trade-offs for the program. Assigns priorities to multiple competing and important program team activities quickly and effectively and communicates them appropriately.
COMMUNICATION AND COORDINATION: Frames communication and discussions for the intended audience, with appropriate context and line of sight. Documents and communicates status, issues, and risks in a timely manner to stakeholders and senior management. Conducts program and cross-functional team meetings to update status, and identify and resolve issues. Achieves quality results through team interaction and effective cross-group collaboration.

Requirements:
- Strong Program Management experience, including 5 or more years
running software engineering projects to successful outcomes.
- Leader with an exceptional level of initiative, curiosity, work ethic and integrity
- Outstanding communication, organization and relationship development skills
- A deep interest in understanding and solving customer problems using technology
- Intimately familiar with agile development and the software development lifecycle from design through quality assurance and GA release
- Personal interest in at least one technology area relevant to Grid Dynamics such as: cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), e-Commerce, Application Scalability (in memory data grids), HPC
- Effective manager of scope, requirements, timelines, budget and deliverables in a fast changing environment
- BS/MS, including 8 or more years of relevant work experience

What We Offer
- Work in the Bay Area with terrific customers on large, innovative projects
- Amazing colleagues to work with, share and learn from
- High-energy atmosphere of a growing and successful company
- A very attractive compensation package with generous benefits and profit sharing

If interested, please send your cover letter and résumé to jobs@griddynamics.com
Please mention Job Reference = KIT_PM
**No Third Party/Recruiters, no phone calls please**

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