Sr. Program Manager, Engineering - Supporting Identity Protection (hybrid, Isr)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · Tel Aviv, Israel

CrowdStrike is seeking a Sr. Program Manager, Engineering to support their Identity Protection Product Group. This role involves driving the scheduling, scoping, and execution of complex engineering projects within a fast-paced cybersecurity environment. The Program Manager will collaborate with engineering, product, and management teams across global locations to ensure timely delivery against the roadmap, manage dependencies, and resolve critical issues. The role requires strong experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies, Jira proficiency, and excellent communication skills, with a focus on managing large-scale software development projects.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partnering and direct facilitation with teams at all levels; from in the weeds with developers on projects to summations at the executive level.
  2. Creating and driving the project schedule, working with dev management task assignments, and managing schedule progress; from large phases through to detailed tasks, including understanding and managing dependencies within and across Product Groups.
  3. Collaborating with staff and management of multiple worldwide business units (including subject matter experts, product management, design teams, and technology teams) to clearly identify, explain, and communicate their project involvement, project goals, expectations, and tasks.
  4. Proactively tracks the status of project activities and ensures that schedules and priorities are being met.
  5. Ensures critical issues are identified, tracked through resolution, and escalated if necessary.

Skills

Required

  • Jira proficiency
  • 10+ years of program/project management experience for software development
  • Experience owning a program/portfolio of products/features
  • Scoping requirements
  • Planning milestones
  • Managing and tracking engineering work at scale
  • Experience with large scale platforms (cloud technologies)
  • Experience with complex inter-dependent technologies
  • Agile/Scrum methodologies
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional groups worldwide
  • Meticulous attention to detail
  • Ability to make logical, timely decisions
  • Proactive and independent driving of results
  • Self-learning capabilities
  • Ability to extrapolate context from complex technical conversations
  • Fluency in Hebrew (written and verbal)
  • Fluency in English (written and verbal)

Nice to have

  • Scaled Agile Framework methodology

What the JD emphasized

  • large scale/complex engineering projects
  • fast-paced environment
  • Identity Protection Product Group
  • principles of least privilege and just-in-time- permission management
  • full authentication footprint
  • potential attack surface
  • driving the scheduling, scoping and execution of projects
  • timely delivery against the roadmap
  • dependencies are well known
  • critical issues are identified and driven to resolution
  • Proficient in the use of Jira
  • 10+ years of experience working in a program/project management capacity for software development
  • Experience owning a program/portfolio of products/features, scoping requirements, planning milestones, and being an active resource for technical teams
  • Experience in planning, organizing, managing and tracking engineering work (with multiple complex dependencies) as part of integrated programs/portfolios at scale
  • Experience with/exposure to large scale platforms (cloud technologies), complex inter-dependent technologies and software development projects that require collaboration between multiple teams and areas across the organization with expert dependency and risk management
  • Seasoned team coach that manages and alleviates (instead of running from) persistent obstacles
  • Experience with Software Development Lifecycle and Project Management Methodologies, specifically Agile/Scrum
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required
  • Must enjoy consensus-driven environments where collaboration, honest and open communications are paramount
  • Must work effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team
  • Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail, and have the ability to make logical, timely decisions
  • Excel at proactively and independently driving results in small team environments
  • Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment
  • Ability to extrapolate context from complex technical conversations, and provide teams with valuable summations around action items and next steps
  • Fluency in both Hebrew and English (written and verbal) required