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As a Senior Software Program Manager within the Signal Processing group, you will enable and influence cross-functional teams within deep vertical domains including Robotics, RF and RF PCB, Mixed-Signal and SerDesto efficiently deliver software.
In this role, you are part of the cross-functional leadership group that drives projects and programs to achieve strategic objectives. You will partner with the engineering managers, program managers and other cross-functional leaders to define processes and strategies enabling globally dispersed cross-functional teams to plan, prioritize, and execute those projects.
We seek someone who is strategic, values collaboration, is passionate about process improvement and can motivate others towards achieving a shared vision.
MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates diversity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate bi-annual planning process to create multi-release plans aligning with strategic objectives
- Design, create and maintain team collaboration and communication tools
- Evaluate team agile practices, identify areas to improve, develop plan and coach team
- Identify dependencies, facilitate communication with dependent/impacted teams to negotiate and establish agreement of responsibilities and plans.
- Champion our core value of continuous improvement. Facilitate problem-solving to identify root causes and define countermeasures which resolve the problem. Lead process improvement activities that eliminate sources of waste.
- Design, pilot, and roll out processes, best practices, standards, and KPI's to improve team performance
- Monitor KPIs to identify issues in team quality and/or performance - raise awareness, define, communicate, and track plan to address issues
- Co-author and execute change management and pilot plans. Gather, analyze, and incorporate feedback.
Qualifications
- Technical degree in Engineering
- Experience in program management of commercial software
- Influence without authority
- Expertise in process improvement and change management including application of Root Cause Analysis, Reflection and A3 for problem solving.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, and Kanban software development methodologies
- Experience using work management and collaboration tools like JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, and Teams
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written
- Experience developing products as software application developer is nice to have
Required Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience) is required.