Your opportunity
New Relic is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to join our outstanding engineering organization! Technical Program managers play a vital role at New Relic leading the planning, execution, and delivery of large cross functional programs in support of our strategic objectives. The ideal candidate is a strong Program Manager with a senior-level understanding of cloud, engineering, software, and systems development lifecycles.
What you'll do
- Drive technical projects from ideation to delivery, including managing complex project schedules, removing roadblocks, and keeping processes running smoothly.
- Identify and operationalize the metrics and key performance indicators necessary to track progress, and drive issue resolution & mitigation at a granular level across the organization.
- Create and operationalize processes to transform the effectiveness of the organization with respect to meeting business goals.
- Drive effective communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple stakeholders and disparate groups with competing priorities
- Work with teams to identify and handle our top risks and drive decisions to align leadership on the right level of risk for each project.
- Facilitate productive meetings from small (3-5 people) to large (100 people or more).
This role requires
- 8+ years of experience working on a software development team as a TPgM or engineering manager
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- 6+ years in project and program management
- 6+ years delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment
Bonus points if you have
- Can anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
- Can drive programs with a significant amount of ambiguity and facilitate definition and clarity
- Strong technical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience communicating with senior leadership
- Inquisitive with technical and business skills to understand, test, and challenge while working harmoniously with the business and technology owners
- An understanding of distributed and service-oriented architectures.
- A good understanding of the New Relic platform and its capabilities
- Experience working with remote & distributed team
- Background or knowledge of SRE, operations, or cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud or Azure)
- Experience in large data infrastructures like databases and a background working with AWS products including managed streaming services. (Nice to have)
- Prior experience with high-growth companies
Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected].
We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.
Our hiring process
In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers’ means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.
We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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