💰 $150,000 - $175,000 🌍 San Francisco, California, United States 📅 04/13/2023
**The Role: **
The role of the Senior Program Manager is an exciting opportunity for an
experienced Program Manager to help lead value delivery across agile programs.
This role will work closely with agile engineering teams and programs to
coordinate work efforts through a lean/agile process and ensure the teams have
everything they need to efficiently deliver valuable outcomes.
The Senior Program Manager will also work directly with the Head of PMO to
improve processes and discipline in portfolio management, product road-
mapping, executive reporting, dashboards and tooling, cost accounting, driving
innovation, and more. This will improve Forge’s alignment, transparency, and
velocity.
The effective candidate will have a proven track record of successfully
driving organizational optimizations and delivery efficiencies in a fast-paced
environment. The candidate will have demonstrated success implementing
lean/agile concepts, leading transformation, and coaching delivery teams and
leadership.
**Responsibilities:**
* Manage complex programs in a matrix delivery organization
* Facilitate program and executive leadership ceremonies
* Actively find risks, inefficiencies, and resolve cross-team issues
* Provide day-to-day coordination and facilitate continuous improvement
* Define and own metrics and key performance indicators
* Collaborate closely with a wide range of teams and functions across Forge to improve alignment
* Coaching and training lean/agile concepts and facilitating adoption and continuous improvement
**Qualifications** :
* 10\+ years of experience in an agile program management role with 15\+ years total work experience
* An undergraduate degree in a related discipline
* Experience collaborating cross-functionally to prioritize needs and build productive working relationships while also holding teams and individuals accountable to deliverables
* Skilled at agile program management, driving transformation, innovating, and reporting
* Experience with Jira and Confluence
* Excellent communication skills, deep motivation and ownership
* Training/certifications in lean/agile disciplines (CSM, CSPO, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Scrum @ Scale, etc.)
* Must be able to sit and/or stand for long periods of time in an office setting or in a home office setting while working
**Nice to haves:**
* Fintech, financial services, or regulated industry experience
* Experience as a Release Train Engineer
* Experience driving agile transformation
* * *
For residents of San Francisco/Bay Area, CA or New York, NY the annual salary
range for this role is $150,000 - $175,000 + bonus & equity. Final offers may
vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and
expertise, bonus, and other factors.
Forge implements a mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy, which applies to all
employees. All employees covered by this policy are required to be fully
vaccinated as a term and condition of employment at Forge. Employees are
considered fully vaccinated two weeks after completing primary vaccination
with a COVID-19 vaccine, with, if applicable, at least the minimum recommended
interval between doses. Employees must provide truthful and accurate
information about their COVID-19 vaccination status, and, if applicable, their
testing results as of the first date of their employment.
Employees may request an exception from this mandatory vaccination policy if
the vaccine is medically contraindicated for them or medical necessity
requires a delay in vaccination. Employees also may be legally entitled to a
reasonable accommodation if they cannot be vaccinated because of a disability,
or if the provisions in this policy for vaccination conflict with a sincerely
held religious belief, practice, or observance. All such requests will be
handled in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
