Senior Program Manager, Software

Company Description

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too. When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength. Explore life at Fortune Brands here

Job Description

The Senior Program Manager is an engaging and challenging opportunity that is instrumental in driving the creation and launch of groundbreaking smart home products. We are looking for a creative, customer-obsessed and results-oriented Senior Program Manager who wants to live on the edge of technologies that bring software and hardware together, within the connected home. We are seeking someone to support our efforts in building world-class mobile and hardware solutions for our direct-to-consumer products, as well as our business partners. Your role involves leading software development efforts, from initial concept through to market release, with a focus on pioneering new technologies and features in the connected devices space.

POSITION LOCATION:

This position is eligible for a hybrid schedule with all work performed in Meriden, CT, Oak Creek, WI, North Olmsted, OH, Deerfield, IL OR San Francisco, CA

RESPONSIBLIITIES:

• Helping with cross-functional planning efforts - from concept to launch - required to introduce new hardware products into our software platforms.
• Working closely with software product managers to remove obstacles and organize team activities.
• Leading meetings and working sessions to help unblock product development efforts.
• Helping create and revise achievable plans to deliver hardware products (supported by the software platform) to market in coordination with commercial hardware product managers, hardware project managers and software product teams.
• Working closely with and supporting software product owners and their agile teams to build a plan of record for all software integration efforts, including any new feature development, quality assurance testing, and field trials. Helping re-plan efforts, when necessary, based on program realities.
• Supporting and using common templates, terminology, and definitions for all phases of the software and hardware development processes.
• Working with functions external to product development (marketing, customer support, sales) to coordinate needs directly associated with new product launches including installation guides, support articles, etc.
• Working with platform release managers (mobile, server) to build release schedules for new product initiatives.
• Executing and delivering customer value in accordance with the company innovation process.
• Participating in key rituals required as part of the company New Product Introduction process: discovery process, team composition. Helping understand and plan staffing needs, working with functional managers across the product development organization to compose balanced, effective scrum teams.
• Build relationships and communicate effectively with other departments, such as marketing, sales, hardware and commercial product managers, to ensure that everyone is on the same page.
• Surface risks, coaching on mitigating those risks and giving broad management insight into those risks.
• Facilitating reporting against plan for all assigned initiatives to management and stakeholders, through regular program reviews.
• Serving as an escalation for product teams, to help manage scope, time plans and resources.
• Remaining flexible to shifting project priorities and workload adjustments.
• Focus for this role will be launching new connected products within our Water portfolio.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7-10 years of experience with project management.
• 3+ years of experience in software project or program management, with a strong preference for experience in smart home technology and new product development.
• Working knowledge using Jira for planning, dashboard creation, issue management and report generation.
• Well-versed in Agile Principles, scrum master certification a plus.
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 15% of the time, both domestically and internationally.
• Comprehensive understanding of software development processes and lifestyle.
• Strong formal project management, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Expert communication, influence and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to help organize complex efforts.
• Drive to ship world-class products.
• Ability to grasp program details (technical, functional, operational), and communicate them at all levels of the organization.
• Familiarity with complex software development including mobile, backend and firmware.
• Working knowledge of industry standard practices for developing and manufacturing hardware.
• Experience with IoT and networked products.
• Experience using data and metrics to assess product health to help drive improvements.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and be flexible.
• Obsession with accuracy and detailed issue reporting.
• Ability to stay calm under pressure.

Additional Information

Salary Range: Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is $125,000-$160,000. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN

Equal Employment Opportunity

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

FBIN is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please contact us at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information. Resumes submitted to this email address will not be responded to.