Senior Technical Program Manager

MongoDB MongoDB · Enterprise · Gurgaon, India · Magenta

Senior Technical Program Manager to join a new team building a platform for AI applications using MongoDB. The role involves owning processes across the engineering department, ensuring smooth operations from idea to release, and working with distributed teams and early customers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work closely with and facilitate communication between research, product management, product engineering, product design peers as well as other teams within the company to define the first version and future evolution of the service
  2. Communicate and facilitate resolution of potential issues as we become aware of them
  3. Act as a steward for the tools that power our engineering operations (including wiki, project management software, retrospective tools etc)
  4. Track and ensure success of engineering deliverables and release tasks
  5. Continually improve processes to ensure more efficient releases

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years experience of working in an Engineering organization with high scale cloud or multi-cloud software projects in a program / project management, development or administrative role
  • Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, related fields or equivalent industry experience
  • Ability to maintain a strategic view of our software engineering process even while executing on the detailed tasks of day-to-day development
  • Skilled at communicating with a diverse set of engineers, product managers, and leadership
  • Hyper-organized and capable of juggling all of the data created by work across Core Engineering
  • Knowledgeable of and experienced with implementing agile/Scrum best practices
  • A role model for effective execution practices, driven by an attuned sense of priority and urgency
  • Experienced in successfully delivering complex cross-functional projects
  • Able to appreciate the engineering concepts being discussed, allowing them to facilitate discussion and flesh out the details required to ensure successful delivery
  • Experienced in gathering process pain points from team members and stakeholders and devising improvements to address them
  • Trained in working with project tracking software (e.g. Jira, Rally, MS Project)
  • Interested in business automation work such as scripting in Python, Google Apps Script and Slack
  • Strong verbal and written technical communication skills, desire to collaborate with colleagues
  • Eager to learn, with a strong technical background

What the JD emphasized

  • new platform we are building to make it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB
  • work closely with early customers on deployments