Program Manager, Staff

Job Description and Requirements

This Program Manager, also called as Technical Program Manager, manages end-to-end ZEBU SW releases, who oversees and coordinates from planning all the way to production to ensure the releases meet Corporate business goals. Their main duties include organizing various programs and activities to improve operation efficiencies, building long-term goals for company projects and developing program and project budgets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with PAE and PM owners to define the initial release content and build dashboard to track progress and generate status report
• Run R&D and PV resource budgeting by collecting development effort estimates, project team, project start and end date, validation estimates
• Detect and resolve conflicts coming out during planning and coordinate among R&D, PAE and PV team to streamline the waterfall procedure
• Drive, manage, monitor, and report the timely transition based on pre-defined entry/exit criteria of each release stage
• Follow-up and drive for closure with R&D owners on fix development and sandbox validation
• Coordinate with DevOps and auto-integration team to make sure the code changes are integrated to necessary production streams and validation is done in timely manner

Education/Requirements:

• Relevant work experience plus 5-8 years project management
• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience troubleshooting problems, finding and implementing solutions
• Highly organized with attention to detail
• Rich customer service experience and focus

The Engineering Excellence Group drives innovation velocity and enterprise infrastructure automation, which are critical elements of our growth and scaling strategy. This team is chartered to drive significant productivity, robustness, agility, and time-to-market advantage in the creation of Synopsys products and solutions. The group also leads corporate infrastructure transformation as we continue to drive IT operations leadership and invest in the next wave of disruptive technologies.