Job Title: Sr. PM/ Scrum Master
Location: San Jose, CA
Long term Contract
Job Description
:
Senior Program Manag
e
r The Challen
geThe Enterprise Sales Services team within Cloud Technology is at the center of enabling world-class Sales technologies, including our own, to help achieve sales strategic business goals at Adobe. Our goal is to drive sales effectiveness & sales efficiency by optimizing selling workflows .Your challenge will be to partner with global sales- ops and the team to deliver leading edge enterprise experience
s.In this new role, you will provide senior level technical program management for cross-functional technology initiatives. You will champion and drive operational and strategic excellence amongst the team. You possess a strong program management background, have demonstrated experience leading operational excellence, and have a well-rounded technical background in current technologies and data managemen
t.
You thrive in ambiguity and multiple contending priorities. You develop and drive high-level central initiatives as well as owning the communication, operations, release management, and overall project management for the team. Maturity, organization, passion for detail, analytical talent, mentoring and leadership are essential to success in this ro
le.
What you wil
l doThe ideal candidate is an influential leader, has global business experience, and masters the fundamentals of project management, with an ability to get things done. You will improve the quality and delivery of our cross-functional technology programs, focused on driving operational excellence. You will jump into any situation to quickly understand and assess business needs, identify potential gaps in programs or processes, and turn problem statements into prioritized and well-executed programs that will drive velocity and continued succ
- ess.
Clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to the internal - teamDrive and optimize the request intake process, working with stakeholders and multiple scrum teams to prioritize and define an actionable roa
- dmap.Build and maintain clear roadmaps to include project, platform, and operational milestones for the organiza
- tion.Document and evaluate existing processes and procedures. Make recommendations and drive process improvement and adoption of best pract
- ices.Own the collaboration and preparation of work needed for new project requests, including the definition of scope, resource need, and estim
- ates.Proactively drive operational projects and associated scope, timeline, resources with minimal superv
- isionIdentify, analyze, respond, monitor, and control
- risksResolve issues in a timely manner to keep things moving fo
- rwardDrive creation of portfolio & business health metric dashboards to monitor overall h
- ealthCoordinate all aspects of release management adoption and production issue tra
- ckingDrive the team communication, documentation and collaboration str
- ategyChampion and evangelize best project management and scrum discip
- linesManage or mentor team members on best practices and successful exec
ution
What you will need to s
- ucceed7+ years of technical leadership and program management experience in large enterprises, preferably in sales enab
- lement4+ years of people management and/or direct ment
- orship3+ years of hands on Agile expe
- rienceProven success driving operational excellence with structured and easily adoptable pro
- cessesProven success building roadmaps and delivering agile software development methodo
- logiesExpert knowledge and experience with Microsoft Power Point, Excel, P
- rojectExceptional stakeholder management and executive presentation
- skillsProven ability to operate effectively and autonomously in situations of extreme ambiguity, with only high-level dire
- ction.Work closely with internal and external partners and leverage relationships to get things done through others. Be regarded as a trusted partner by the key stakeho
- lders.Attention to detail and a strong track record of successful delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary technology projects in a matrixed organizational envir
- onmentA planner who brings order to chaos and determine what needs to get done in an ambiguous and fast-paced envir
- onmentAbility to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals up and down the org, balanced with the ability to absorb large amounts of information and distill it down to the esse
- ntialsAbility to alternate between strategic planning and ground level execution, comfortable with and excel a
- t bothHelp the team grow and learn, be a change agent. You motivate and influence people without authority or a direct reporting relationship to get the best business o
- utcomeExcellent negotiation, conflict management and resolution skills. You diplomatically facilitate teams to the successful resolution of
- issuesStrong aptitude for learning new technologies and leveraging tools of the trade, such as productivity tools and project management applic
ations
Ed
- ucationBachelors or equivalent a must; MBA or equivalent strongly pr
- eferredComputer Science, Engineering, Related Technica
- l FieldCertification a plus: PMP, PgMP,
or PfMP