Senior Technical Program Manager - Customer Experience Platform - HYBRID

Posted 10 Days Ago
Seattle, WA
121K-221K Annually
Senior level
eCommerce • Fashion • Mobile • Software
The Role
The Senior Technical Program Manager drives technology programs within the Customer Experience Platform, ensuring strategy alignment, managing execution from inception to delivery, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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Job Description

The Senior Technical Program Manager at Nordstrom is a dynamic role that requires a combination of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and strong communication skills. This role is responsible for driving the execution of technology programs and projects within the Customer Experience Platform (CXP) Organization from inception through delivery, ensuring alignment with Nordstrom's strategic goals.

The Senior Technical Program Manager partners with business and technology stakeholders to develop, design, build, and launch technology solutions. They work with the core leadership team to create and maintain a delivery roadmap. This Senior Technical Program Manager needs an agile mentality to work with cross-functional teams and vendors, digging in to drive innovation and performance as we evolve our core Customer- facing systems to meet the future needs of the company.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to the delivery roadmap, planning for the next 6 to 10 months, ensuring that requirements are independent of a specific implementation.
  • Engage with product management and engineering teams to align prioritization of business initiatives and key metrics that define the success of these initiatives.
  • Manage scope, resources, and schedules, balancing trade-offs between short-term iteration and longer-term planning.
  • Maintain and evolve the program roadmap cross-teams, ensuring understanding of project goals and vision.
  • Identify hard external dependencies and ensure that systems can meet targeted service-level objectives
  • Work directly with engineering and product teams to estimate work and create appropriate program milestones
  • Build and manage relationships with partners and stakeholders, resolving issues and negotiating timing of dependencies to ensure successful delivery.
  • Demonstrate a broad understanding of system functionality and interactions, participating in design review processes and serving as a subject matter expert for the overall program.
  • Lead teams through the full project lifecycle, including ideation, definition, build, testing, launch, and support & closure phases, utilizing appropriate project management methodologies and tools.
  • Ensure a comprehensive testing strategy aligns with initiative goals and oversee the execution of end-to-end testing
  • Oversee the deployment plan for products or systems, coordinating across teams and functions, identifying, and mitigating risks, and ensuring quality and performance standards are met.
  • Identify and produce valuable analytics for improved performance and business decisions.
  • Innovate and drive process improvements within program governance.
  • Use retrospectives throughout the program lifecycle to ensure a continuous improvement mindset

Qualifications:

  • Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Science or related experience required.
  • 5+ years of professional experience in program or project management within a technology environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects with multiple dependencies and minimal supervision.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build relationships and communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.
  • Proficient in project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, GitLab and other relevant software or ability to pick up various software tools quickly.
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies and frameworks is a plus.
  • Understanding of SDLC methodologies.
  • Excellent and proactive problem-solving skills and the ability to identify and mitigate risks.
  • Experience with large scale enterprise software/services.
  • Experience drafting technical requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Professional experience delivering solutions built on AWS/GCP.
  • Agile, lean, and Kanban delivery process experience.
  • Experience supporting retail systems/solutions.

We’ve got you covered…

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

  • Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
  • Life Insurance and Disability
  • Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

A few more important points...

The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities and qualifications for this job.

Nordstrom will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation should contact the nearest Nordstrom location, which can be identified at www.nordstrom.com

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Current Nordstrom employees: To apply, log into Workday, click the Careers button and then click Find Jobs.

Pay Range Details

The pay range(s) below are provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be different in other locations.

Washington: $120,500 - $220,500 AnnuallyThis position may be eligible for performance-based incentives/bonuses. Benefits include 401k, medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options, PTO accruals, Holidays, and more. Eligibility requirements may apply based on location, job level, classification, and length of employment. Learn more in the Nordstrom Benefits Overview by copying and pasting the following URL into your browser: https://careers.nordstrom.com/pdfs/Ben_Overview_17-19.pdf

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The Company
HQ: Seattle, Washington
60,000 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1901

What We Do

When you join Nordstrom, you join a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment is paired with the strong history and experience of the Nordstrom retail legacy. We have access to some of the greatest minds in retail and technology and are constantly creating innovative strategies to develop the ultimate apparel solutions.

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