Principal Technical Program Manager, Engineering
Lead complex cross-functional engineering initiatives at Okta as a Principal TPM. Drive prioritization, execution, risk mitigation, and transparency for strategic programs, including Federal compliance efforts, while championing agile practices across Engineering and partner teams.
About the job
What you’ll be doing
- Structure, kick-off, and run continuous and/or time-bound engineering initiatives within and beyond the Engineering organization – clarifying priorities, enabling the execution of deliverables, defining program process flows, and providing continuous transparency.
- Project manage initiatives within and beyond Engineering, across multiple teams; taking a hands-on and proactive approach to unblock progress, introduce efficiencies, and provide workflow solutions.
- Champion the adoption of agile best practices.
- Build and maintain alignment across multiple teams for keeping a focus on execution, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
- Lead the introduction of new processes / workflows by bringing proposed solutions to the teams and rolling them out in an iterative manner.
- Anticipate and mitigate risks - by having close involvement with teams’ goals and challenges, applying past experience, and keeping in mind the big picture.
- Provide clear and crisp transparency to the status and progress of Federal initiatives.
What you’ll bring to the role
- US Person Status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee)
- Self-starter; able to work well in an ambiguous and constantly changing, fast paced environment
- Strong leadership skills; able to successfully influence without authority
- Experience leading and driving complex cross-functional initiatives independently with minimal supervision
- Minimum 7 years of hands-on technical project management experience in a SaaS product development environment – working hand-in-hand with Engineers to deliver
- Experience with delivering FedRAMP, IL, or other compliance or security initiatives within Engineering organizations preferred
- Strong leadership skills; able to successfully influence and build close relationships
- Strong technical aptitude/affinity; experience working directly with software, test and/or system engineers
- Excellent verbal and written communication; experience effectively communicating and presenting to teams located across different locations and people ranging from individual team members to C-level executives.
Skills
Technical Program Management, Agile, Project Management, FedRAMP, SaaS, Cross-Functional Leadership, Risk Management, Process Improvement
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