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Zebra Technologies Senior Manager Technical Program Management in Bangalore, India
Remote Work: No
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.
A visonary, functional leader that develops a large team of program managers that also operates across all levels of the company and can drive strategic initiatives as well as product / solutions development in realizing our company’s vision.
A technical and solutions senior manager of program management 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. 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.
Must have hands on experienec in building and leading a team of Program Managers for Product/Solutions based company.
Responsibilities:
- Functional leadership of program management teams with possible direct supervision of level 1,
2, senior PM’s and managers. Independently drives team growth and development plans and supports
individual’s execution of development activities such as training, mentorships, and guiding growth
opportunities for high potentials.
- Team leadership for scaled Agile cross-functional innovation teams. Contribute to and promote the
development of agile skillset and capabilities within Zebra. Drive execution of solutions inclusive
of concept definition, requirements validation, architecture specification, and governance compliance to
our Application Lifecycle Management framework.
- 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.
- Establishes standards of performance across programs that are typically complex in nature with
cross-functional teams in numerous locations and time zones. Drives continuous improvement
initiatives to improve quality, increase efficiency and accelerate time to market.
- Ability to translate customer problems into solution requirements. Works independently with
business in defining proof of value and customer’s return on investment.
- 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.
- Organizes and presents business, technical and program reviews/status to Senior Leadership using
digital media, dashboards and JIRA agile project management tools.
- Recognized as an "expert" in the business function and processes in which the program is
operating
- Motivate a project team to ensure solutions are reliable and of quality, in a highly collaborative
fashion
- Independently coordinates 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 advanced understanding of development processes and product launch scope
and activities
Strength in hiring, recruiting, managing, developing, coaching, and retaining individuals and teams.
Deep understanding of human resources, employee performance improvement plans, and
corrective action policies
No supervision by management is expected in this position for complex or novel problems.
May coach or act as escalation point for Managers of Program Management or grades below
Explore and understand competitive landscape in both product and business terms. Define
strategic initiatives to align the business to agile product development. Work closely with Portfolio
Management to ensure strategic goals align and are represented in the innovation feature
roadmap. Lead development of business plans, strategies and approaches to take advantage of
business opportunities.
- Lead strategic partnerships with technology companies (including startups) that are developing
adjacent new cutting-edge solution elements. Partner with Zebra Ventures to identify entities that are
added-value to your business and solutions.
- Develop and protect intellectual property; be well versed with IP fundamentals.
Qualifications:
- BS Electrical Engineering or Computer Science degree, or
related technical BS degree, with MS preferred
- 12+ years Engineering/Program management and Scrum Master
experience for products in fast paced environment including
minimum 2 years as team supervisor / manager.
Strong strategic leadership and analytical skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Solid critical thinking and questioning skills
Experience leading large cross-functional teams
Self-motivated, results driven, manages risks, and thrives
in an environment of uncertainty and continuous innovation. Able
to drive definition and creation of solutions from skeleton use
cases
- 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).
- Advanced expertise with software development best
practices including Scaled Agile, TDD and Continuous
Integration; a track record of applying these methodologies
- Advanced expertise with Cloud development and
Software/Services development integration, as well as mobile
application development for Android or iOS.
- Advanced expertise working independently and as part
of a team to solve difficult technical, quality, cost, and
schedule challenges, expert in risk management practices
Position Specific Information
Travel Requirements (as a % of
time): 25-50%
Able to telework? Yes/no – if yes, %
of time and expectations while
teleworking Yes- 50%
Personal Protective Equipment
(PPE) Required (safety glasses,
steel-toed boots, gloves, etc.): N
Physical Activities (all U.S. only jobs):
Enter in N, O, F or C as applicable
Enter in Frequency
(N)Never, (O)Occasionally,
(F)Frequently or
(C)Constantly
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