Program Manager 2

Job ID: 26-01626 Job Title : Program Manager 2
Location : San Jose, CA 95110


Duration: 5 Months


Work type : W2


Pay rate : $68.5


Job Description:

• 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, multi team 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 in flight and upcoming work.
• Navigate competing priorities and tight timelines to deliver high impact outcomes.

• Maintain a deep, end to end 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, fine tuning, evaluations, velocity improvements, requirements gathering, risk assessment, and resource planning.
• Understand and influence strategies for early feature market fit identification.

• Engage and influence stakeholders at all levels-from individual contributors to VPs-ensuring alignment, clarity, and momentum.
• Develop materials tailored for diverse audiences, from executive level presentations to detailed documentation for engineering teams.
• Facilitate cross team collaboration, surfacing and resolving assumptions, gaps, and blockers across a complex matrixed environment.

• Define and drive the processes (both new and current) to coordinate, communicate, and resolve cross team 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 cross functional leaders to ensure cohesive execution of the overall plan.

• Leads complex engineering programs from concept through delivery, aligning technical execution with business strategy
• Drives cross functional 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 engineering focused program governance, reporting, and decision making 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 short term delivery with long term architecture needs
• Leads organizational change initiatives, enabling teams to adopt new tools, processes, and operating models
• Facilitates clear communication between technical and non technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment at all levels
• Champions continuous improvement, operational excellence, and data driven decision making across engineering programs

• Technical background preferred along with 3 - 6 YOE.