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Senior Technical Program Manager

OP Labs

OP Labs

IT, Operations
Remote
Posted on Oct 21, 2024

We're on the lookout for an amazing Technical Program Manager to join our lively and growing team! In this role, you’ll be the go-to person for all things around the fast moving programs we deliver to our end users and community. In this role you’ll be collaborating with our brilliant product development team, and various stakeholders to make sure we deliver our solutions efficiently and on time. If you love working in a dynamic environment where you can make a real impact, we want to hear from you! Let’s make tech magic happen together!

What are the role responsibilities?

These should be deliverables that can be measured (eg. OKRs); these deliverables will be mapped to the Core Competency Interview. Note: these will be posted externally.

  • Program Manager: Lead the charge on exciting technical programs, ensuring everything runs like a well-oiled machine. From creating timelines, program dashboards, planning, and managing dependencies, you’ll be at the center of the excitement for programs at OP Labs!

  • Security Audit Wrangler: Organize how we manage our audit process to insure a smooth experience in development process.

  • Release & Launch Management: Drive our release and launch process into an efficient process so we can get our solutions to the community!

  • Team Collaborator: Work hand-in-hand with our brilliant engineers, product folks, and dependent teams to nail down program goals and make cool things happen.

  • Communication Expert: Keep everyone in the loop with regular updates on project status, risks, and wins—making sure all stakeholders are happy and informed.

What skills do you bring?

These should be attributes that a candidate needs in order to achieve the above OKRs; these attributes will be mapped to the Hiring Manager Screen. Note: these will be posted externally.

  • Experience: Proven track record for coordinating and delivering complex large-scale software projects.

  • Tech Skills: A solid grasp of software development processes. Bonus points for understanding of Web3 development and blockchain platforms!

  • Methodologies: Strong knowledge of Program Management methodologies such as PMP, Agile, Pragmatic Marketing, LUMA, and other advanced project/program management certifications.

  • Start-up & Agency Experience - We’re small, or as we like to call it, concentrated awesome, so we’re looking for folks are used to working in scrappy, quick, and roll-up your sleeves environments that are prevalent in start-ups and agencies.

  • Process Orientated & Systems Thinker - Excellent ability to assess how work is done and create a processes and frameworks that work from small teams to large organizational systems. This can be a creating a consistent system for a team’s ways of working to simplifying the release management process.