Senior Director, Program Management

Sr. Director, Program Management

San Diego, CA

Key Responsibilities Include:

Build and Lead Teams:

• Attract, encourage, develop, and retain a high-performing geographically distributed program management team.
• Lead a team of talented program managers overseeing complex, full-stack, outcome-driven projects across Hardware, Software, and Service Platforms.

Strategic Program Management:

• Develop and influence program delivery strategy, ensuring a quick cycle from idea to experiment to delivery.
• Optimize product development best practices.

Communication and Collaboration:

• Proactively communicate opportunities and risk with senior executives, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with key leadership stakeholders to assess and streamline processes, mitigating risks and generating efficiencies.

Efficiency and Innovation:

• Drive efficiencies and linkages between projects by identifying shared services.
• Lead efforts to continuously measure and evolve internal program processes with an objective of accelerating PMO, Engineering, Product, Design, and Quality.
• Identify ways to do more with less.
• Embrace and build a culture of experimentation - where good ideas come from all parts of the organization.

Leadership and Culture:

• Support the transformation of the current program management office to higher-valued added activities across the product lifecycle.
• Act with a sense of ownership and urgency to get innovations in the hands of customers.-Embrace a culture of ownership and accountability across the teams that you work with.
• Foster and model a diverse and inclusive work environment across teams.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Demonstrated leadership qualities, including a history of working across different organizational levels - including the most senior leaders.
• Proven experience in driving transformative initiatives and understanding diverse geographical and cultural needs.
• In-depth expertise in program structure design.
• Expertise in leveraging data and technology to measure progress and ensure success at a scalable level.
• Proven track record in advocating for and implementing new investments in technology, especially in data utilization for program management.
• Previous success in navigating challenges associated with a broad set of internal and external constituents.
• Demonstrated ability to honor and respect the past while effectively focusing on continuous improvement and avoiding stagnation.
• 15+ years’ experience leading technical development or PMO teams at a global scale.
• Experience defining the vision and strategy and leading highly performant teams to successful implementation.
• Extensive experience in managing strategic change through projects, programs, and portfolios and holds a clear vision of “what it takes” to manage and successfully deliver programs and projects.
• Broad experience with tools and techniques, methods, and implementation in planning, execution, change control, etc.
• Knowledge of game industry or digital entertainment (preferred experience)
• Experience working with R&D teams (preferred experience)