Senior Technical Program Manager

Celigo is one of the fastest growing, Silicon Valley profitable & funded startup companies pioneering the  future of cloud-based application integration with its Integrator.io iPaaS platform and pre-built Integration  Apps. Over 3500 companies rely on Celigo to synchronize data, automate processes, and streamline  operations by integrating their cloud applications. Our Integrator.io iPaaS platform offers a simple and  powerful platform through a guided user interface, integration templates, and other tools that empower  both business users and IT to easily integrate any of their cloud applications. Our core mission at Celigo  is simple: to enable independent best-of-breed applications to work together as one. We believe that  every independent department and every business end-user should always have choices when it comes  to picking software, and that integration challenges should never stand in the way. 

We are full of fresh ideas with like-minded people offering opportunities to highly-talented individuals  committed to working with the highest quality products in the area of business cloud computing (SaaS). 

 

Location - Hyderabad, India.

 

OPPORTUNITY

Celigo is looking for an experienced, results-oriented Senior Technical Program Manager, who will work cross-functionally with Product Engineering, Product Management, Design, Docs, & DevOps to ensure smooth, on-time, on-budget Product releases.  Celigo Product has multiple releases in a calendar year and a few maintenance releases, as needed. This role would be responsible for release scope management, process adherence, create/maintain/enforce processes and best practices across various functions. This role will provide strategic direction, coaching to all the scrum teams as required to enable complete agile adoption within the engineering organization. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment, have strong project management & organizational skills, experience with modern software development process and tracking tools including data analysis and reporting functions, be familiar with agile software development processes, and strong communications and people skills. 

 

In addition, this role will also be accountable for managing the engineering department’s strategic internal and customer-facing workstreams, planning and tracking functions, and other activities (e.g., training, administration, etc.).  This role will also help the senior engineering management with strategic outcomes and execution, including business planning, large multi-quarter development projects, long-term customer development streams, and operational reporting (to the field, executive management, and the board).

 

The candidate will have strong working experience with modern development environment tools and used to generate detailed reports or information from them. They should be able to provide insights into the organization’s capacity and demand, identify and manage risk, detect early any project execution issues, and provide data-driven information and analyses to various stakeholders.

 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own the complete release management process and delivery of all Celigo Product suite (Platform, pre-built integration applications & connectors) by building and managing correct priorities in alignment with business needs.
• Periodic communication of program status to the Company, Executive team and other stakeholders using hard data and metrics.
• Provide various analyses and reports to support fact-based decision making within the engineering department.
• Responsible for making project decisions, achieving tactical goals while retaining a strategic focus.
• Should anticipate any bottlenecks/roadblocks, escalate at appropriate time and resolve in a smooth and timely manner.
• Instrumental in bringing forth transformation with the entire engineering organization adopting Agile process by rolling out processes for engineering and helping implement the same.
• Provide project management oversight to the department's major strategic internal and customer-facing workstreams.

 

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant technical discipline.
• Minimum 10+ years in a technology-focused industry is required.
• At least 6-10 years of experience in Technical program management (or) leading software development projects to successful completion at software product companies.
• Experience working with multiple functions including Development, QA, Design, Documentation, Product Management, Infrastructure, Customer Success teams.
• Project delivery experience of working with multiple, disparate projects and/or stakeholder groups during release.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Very strong working experience in Agile (or) SAFe methodologies, agile transformation at software product organizations, especially an early stage growth company.
• Excellent Jira knowledge and ideally also Jira Administrator experience.
• Strong knowledge of best practices and deep understanding of engineering and product team processes.

 

THE BEST CANDIDATE

• Is passionate about making a world-class software organization.
• Has experience working in SaaS-based product companies building large-scale distributed platforms.
• Enjoys a fast-paced environment, working with a highly-talented team and shifting priorities.
• Has excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Is great at making data-driven decisions; should use appropriate metrics and report using them in Executive/senior leadership meetings.
• Is comfortable in designing and implementing new processes (or) modify existing processes internally to improve the efficiency of the team.
• Has the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and key partners for the program.
• Can stay abstract or detail oriented as the situation demands.
• Has demonstrated ability to use data in a narrative fashion to stakeholders and executive management to reflect ground realities.
• Has demonstrated the ability of thinking big, bringing new ideas, building teams & scaling the organization.
• Has strong business and technical vision. 
• Learns quickly; must know when to listen, and when to take charge.