Program Manager

Acquia is the open-source digital experience company.With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out. We provide the world's most ambitious brands with technology (built around Drupal) that allows them to embrace innovation and create customer moments that matter. At Acquia, we believe in the power of community and collaboration - giving our customers the freedom to build tomorrow on their terms.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia has been named a top software company by The Software Report, rated a leader by the analyst community, and a top place to work by the Boston Globe and the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future, and we want you to be a part of it!

SUMMARY:

We are looking for a Senior Program Manager to lead the continuous delivery of Acquia's industry-leading Cloud and SaaS products using Agile processes. You will report to the Manager of Drupal Cloud Programs, and drive programs through the entire project lifecycle. You will also have responsibility and authority for leading milestones, schedules and processes required to track and deliver the products, and communicating and mitigating risks in the context of time-to-market requirements.

This is a phenomenal opportunity for a strong program leader to lead a motivated cross-functional team, make data-driven decisions, and be a significant contributor to Acquia's success. Your passion for creating reliable and repeatable systems, critical thinking, in-depth technical, an intuition for business, outstanding project management, communication and interpersonal skills will empower our teams and establish trust across cross-functional and cross-organizational partners.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategy to align with business priorities: Coordinate programs and activities in accordance with the mission and goals of the organization. Create new programs based on opportunity areas that support the organization's objectives.
• Drive the programs product lifecycle: Work closely with product managers, product owners, software engineering managers, design leads, software engineers, QA, DevOps, operations managers, support and other critical stakeholders to get high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle (build, test and release on time) as agilely as possible.
• Manage schedules and budgets of multi track programs: Clarify and drive commitments and priorities, establish and maintain clear chains of accountability, and clearly communicate to stakeholders.
• Address bottlenecks and risks: Provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and encourage risk-taking behavior to improve business benefit.
• Understand release interdependencies and look for areas to improve: Drive towards solutions for delivering complex, multi-tiered cloud systems.
• Take responsibility and ownership: Own release schedules and breakthroughs, keeping up the high momentum of our fast-paced environment.
• Partner with multiple teams: Reconcile the priorities of multiple cross-functional teams to ensure the timely delivery of products.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience delivering software releases
• Excellent written and verbal skills; maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, and leadership skills
• Familiarity with Agile processes and the software development lifecycle
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate and lead cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated analytical skills
• Experience overseeing and creating processes
• Familiarity with or desire to learn about Cloud technologies, distributed systems, and the latest trends in networking, storage, and data centers
• Passion to improve processes, increase velocity, and promote empathetic, collaborative relationships a must
• Experience in agile work environments
• Superior understanding of content management systems, Drupal strongly preferred

ACQUIA IS PROUD TO PROVIDE BEST-IN-CLASS BENEFITS OFFERINGS TO OUR EMPLOYEES AND THEIR FAMILIES IN MAINTAINING BOTH A HEALTHY BODY AND A HEALTHY MIND. CORE BENEFITS INCLUDE: COMPETITIVE HEALTHCARE COVERAGE, WELLNESS PROGRAMS, TAKE IT WHEN YOU NEED IT TIME OFF, PARENTAL LEAVE, RECOGNITION PROGRAMS, AND MUCH MORE!

Acquia is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. We hire without regard to age, color, disability, gender (including gender identity), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.

Interested residents of Colorado may contact NA-recruiting@acquia.com as it relates to regulation C.R.S. * 8-5-201. Information regarding benefits are linked.