Technical Program Manager

Rubrik Rubrik · Enterprise · Pune, India · Engineering

This Technical Program Manager role at Rubrik focuses on planning, managing, and executing major technical programs for the Engineering organization across cloud data management products. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, leading initiatives, overseeing product releases, defining metrics, and optimizing processes to ensure high-quality product delivery. While the company mentions AI transformation, this specific role is centered on general program management within the engineering function.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be responsible for planning, managing, and executing several major technical programs and initiatives each year for our Engineering Organization across our Product portfolio.
  2. Collaborate with Engineering and Product Leadership and functions such as Engineering, Product Management, Customer Support etc. to prioritize, plan, and deliver new features and products to the market.
  3. Lead cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment and effective program execution (conduct cross-functional stand-ups / scrum of scrums). This will involve feature prioritization, planning, milestone tracking, risk management, risk mitigation, metrics & status reporting, escalations (when needed), beta programs etc.
  4. Oversee the management of product releases, release metrics & release processes
  5. Create & optimize processes based on learnings to ensure predictable, consistent, and top-quality execution.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering or a related technical field
  • minimum of 7 years of experience in engineering program or project management
  • Proven track record of leading and executing large projects or initiatives within a complex and fast-paced organizational environment
  • Strong knowledge of Agile product development
  • experience working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver features to the market on time and with high quality
  • Thorough understanding of Product Development Life cycle, software release cycles, processes, metrics & tools
  • Detail-oriented mindset
  • Proficient in problem-solving techniques
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have

  • Experience in release management, particularly in SaaS and On-Premises environments

What the JD emphasized

  • minimum of 7 years of experience in engineering program or project management
  • Proven track record of leading and executing large projects or initiatives within a complex and fast-paced organizational environment
  • juggling multiple concurrent priorities, often with conflicting requirements