Program Manager 2

Job Title: Program Manager 2 Location: San Jose, CA 95110 Duration: 5 Months Work type: W2 Pay rate: $68.5 Job Description: Program Leadership & Delivery Drive planning and execution of the product roadmap in partnership with Product Management, Design, Architecture, Engineering, and business enablement teams. Develop and manage all aspects of large, multiteam programs: detailed plans, schedules, risks, mitigations, status reporting, executive updates, and roadmap alignment. Serve as the authoritative source of truth for program state, dependencies, risks, and opportunities across inflight and upcoming work. Navigate competing priorities and tight timelines to deliver highimpact outcomes. Technical & Strategic Insight Maintain a deep, endtoend technical understanding of the solutions being built—including upstream and downstream dependencies—and drive the organizational changes needed to support them. Guide programs through the full lifecycle of AI feature development: hypothesis validation, finetuning, evaluations, velocity improvements, requirements gathering, risk assessment, and resource planning. Understand and influence strategies for early feature marketfit identification. CrossFunctional Influence & Communication Engage and influence stakeholders at all levels—from individual contributors to VPs—ensuring alignment, clarity, and momentum. Develop materials tailored for diverse audiences, from executivelevel presentations to detailed documentation for engineering teams. Facilitate crossteam collaboration, surfacing and resolving assumptions, gaps, and blockers across a complex matrixed environment. Operational Excellence Define and drive the processes (both new and current) to coordinate, communicate, and resolve crossteam issues. Proactively identify risks and work with teams to mitigate them before they become issues. Continuously inspect what’s working and what’s not, adapting processes to improve velocity and outcomes. Establish and lead a coalition of crossfunctional leaders to ensure cohesive execution of the overall plan. Skills: Leads complex engineering programs from concept through delivery, aligning technical execution with business strategy Drives crossfunctional collaboration across engineering, product, design, and operations to deliver scalable solutions Translates ambiguous requirements into structured roadmaps, milestones, and measurable success criteria Manages program scope, risks, dependencies, and budgets across multiple concurrent technical workstreams Implements engineeringfocused program governance, reporting, and decisionmaking frameworks Optimizes development processes using Agile, Scrum, and Lean practices to improve velocity and quality Partners with engineering leaders to plan capacity, allocate resources, and balance shortterm delivery with longterm architecture needs Leads organizational change initiatives, enabling teams to adopt new tools, processes, and operating models Facilitates clear communication between technical and nontechnical stakeholders, ensuring alignment at all levels Champions continuous improvement, operational excellence, and datadriven decisionmaking across engineering programs Education: Technical background preferred along with 3 - 6 YOE.