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The Program Management Office (PMO) at Cloudera is responsible for establishing tight interlocks between Product Management, Engineering, Quality, UX/Docs, Enterprise Strategy, Support and other relevant counterparts, in order to deliver high-quality products to our customers. The PMO designs and drives the adoption of product development best practices and also places emphasis on reducing nagging pain points and friction between teams. Product feature intake requests are consolidated and the PMO acts as a forcing function to standardize business cases and govern financial opportunity modeling. The success of the PMO depends on the ability to manage new feature requests through the Qualified Inputs process and Engineering product releases, across multiple product pillars.
Job Responsibility:
Coordinate and drive triage activities for product pillar initiatives, with the relevant product cross-functional teams
Work alongside Product Managers to enforce business case data is being completed by appropriate stakeholders and the requesting party
Drive end-2-end delivery and execution for each accepted pillar initiative (a.k.a. Qualified Input) by managing timeline, dependencies, risks, and deliverables across multiple Engineering, Quality, UX, and Product Management teams
Regularly assess the critical path by reviewing and understanding product requirements, and subsequent engineering deliverables/activities, and remove unnecessary work
Regularly communicate the status of each pillar initiative to relevant stakeholders and internal teams to prevent communication silos
Immediately escalate to stakeholders and leadership when inputs are at risk of meeting committed deadlines, and work with the execution team to propose mitigation options
Drive end-to-end Engineering product releases through full-cycle program management, ensuring: Release timelines and milestones are aligned with the global release calendar (avoiding overlaps)
Comprehensive release dashboards are maintained to capture the full backlog and accurately reflect development and quality status
All cross-functional teams follow established JIRA guidelines and maintain proper JIRA hygiene, ensuring accurate metadata for effective weekly reporting
Risks and cross-dependencies are proactively identified and managed
All security, legal, and compliance requirements related to each release are met and tracked through closure
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience in a technical lead, systems engineer, or technical program management role with experience architecting and integrating software into complex systems and deploying solutions to the field
3+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams delivering products on schedule
Strong communication skills with the ability to disseminate (verbally and in writing) clear updates to different audiences, both technical and non-technical
Demonstrated ability to lead interdisciplinary discussions between product and R&D teams to define and drive scope and clarity of work, and reach optimum system level trades
Proficiency with at least one schedule tracking tool such as Asana, Excel, or JIRA/Confluence etc.
This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship
Nice to have:
Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
Experience working with Marketing and Finance to assist product launch operations, as needed (or have hands on knowledge of the NPI process)
Ability to regularly engage with senior management and stakeholders and influence across the organization
Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, with ability to work successfully across all product development disciplines
High sense of ownership, proactiveness, urgency, and drive