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Program Manager II
Achievers · Toronto, Canada
About The Role
Why you'll love this role
- Join a role with endless opportunities to learn, build, and improve.
- Drive continuous optimization in a fast-moving, evolving organization.
- Opportunity to demonstrate increasing ownership, accountability, and proficiency in program management practices.
- Mentorship and guidance from an experienced PMO leader on complex challenges.
- Participate in continuous improvement activities within Technical Operations.
- Make a difference at scale, supporting a large employee base where your contributions are highly visible.
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- Help shape the future of the function by identifying gaps, creating solutions, and leading change.
How you’ll shape our software engineering practices
Program Leadership and Execution
- Manage moderately complex technical projects and small programs involving multiple teams.
- Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, deliverables, timelines, success measures, and clear ownership.
- Coordinate work across engineering teams and relevant partners in Product, Design, Security, Data, Customer Operations, Go-to-Market, and other functions.
- Track scope, schedules, dependencies, risks, resources, quality, readiness, and delivery commitments.
- Apply established Agile and project delivery practices to support iterative progress and agreed outcomes.
- Work independently on most assignments and seek guidance when scope, risk, or organizational complexity increases.
Cross-Functional Alignment and Influence
- Build effective working relationships with technical teams, business stakeholders, and partner functions.
- Facilitate project meetings, clarify decisions, capture actions, and follow up on commitments.
- Create clear communications that summarize project status, progress, decisions, risks, dependencies, and next steps.
- Coordinate follow-up and escalation to help remove blockers and maintain accountability.
- Support alignment across teams by keeping objectives, roles, timelines, and decisions visible.
Risk, Dependency, and Delivery Management
- Identify, document, and track project risks, dependencies, resource constraints, technical issues, and readiness concerns.
- Coordinate mitigation actions with accountable owners and target dates.
- Support resolution of delivery issues through follow-up, structured problem-solving, and timely escalation.
- Maintain an accurate view of scope, schedule, dependencies, quality, readiness, and delivery progress.
- Track commitments and raise concerns when agreed objectives or timelines are at risk.
Project Tracking, Metrics, and Reporting
- Maintain project routines, roles, action tracking, decision logs, and escalation paths using established practices.
- Track agreed measures for delivery progress, quality, readiness, and outcomes.
- Use project information to surface concerns, support decisions, and recommend corrective actions.
- Provide accurate and timely status reporting to managers and project stakeholders.
- Keep project documentation, decisions, actions, risks, and dependencies visible and current.
Agile Delivery and Team Practices
- Use established Agile practices, including Scrum, Kanban, and iterative planning, based on team needs.
- Support regular delivery through transparent plans, backlog and milestone tracking, dependency management, and review.
- Reinforce effective team practices related to planning, communication, accountability, feedback, and continuous learning.
- Identify practical opportunities to improve project planning, communication, tooling, and delivery processes.
- Document and share useful lessons learned with assigned teams.
Experience we feel will set you up for success
- 4+ years of progressive project delivery, program coordination, or technical operations experience.
- Demonstrated success managing moderately complex technical projects or small programs involving multiple teams.
- Ability to develop project plans, facilitate communication, track schedules, dependencies and risks, and support delivery against agreed objectives .
- Experience building effective relationships with technical and business stakeholders and communicating project information clearly.
- Proficiency in project planning, schedule and action tracking, risk and dependency management, status reporting, and project documentation.
- Strong working knowledge of Agile principles and practices, with practical experience using Scrum, Kanban, iterative planning, or hybrid delivery models.
- Ability to apply fit-for-purpose delivery methods, support team flow and feedback, and improve predictability, quality, and customer value.
- Experience leading technology programs involving software platforms, cloud services, data, integrations, security, infrastructure, digital transformation, or comparable technical domains.
- Strong facilitation, communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills, with the ability to build alignment without direct authority.
- Sound judgment and organizational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and seek guidance on more complex challenges.
- Demonstrated accountability, attention to detail, and a commitment to learning and improving program management practices.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business , Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; an advanced degree may be beneficial.
- Relevant certifications in Project Management or Agile c redentials are advantageous but not required.
- Adaptable and reliable, with a consistent record of delivering quality results in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities.
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