Senior Program Manager

Summary

MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations. Learn More: https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/resources/applying-and-interviewing.html#onboarding.

Join MathWorks as a Software Program Manager for teams working in the core of our flagship Simulink product! In this role you will partner with development leadership to help them plan, track, and execute complex projects that deliver powerful and innovative features to industry leading companies across the world. You will be responsible for developing insightful and dependable analyses of program-related metrics for tracking and reporting status to the wider organization. Your curiosity, creativity, and program management experience will help you identify and mitigate potential problems that others might not immediately recognize. You will work as part of an overall program management team and will collaborate with multiple functional groups within the company.

Join us in accelerating the pace of discovery, innovation, and learning in engineering and science. At MathWorks, we cultivate an enjoyable, participatory, and rational environment that champions individual growth, appreciates diversity, encourages initiative, values collaboration, shares success, and rewards excellence.

MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates inclusivity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software development teams to plan, track and execute complex, cross organizational programs while maintaining focus on building the right things at the highest levels of quality.
• Perform program analysis, handle risk, identify and influence vital course corrections, creatively seek solutions, and communicate program status and activities across multiple levels of management.
• Assess and improve the processes that comprise the agile software development lifecycle, and mentor/coach others on those processes.
  
  

• 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.
  
  

• Expertise in agile, cross-organizational software development programs in a commercial software environment
• Proven ability to lead the resolution of complex cross-team issues through data-driven analysis, root cause identification, stakeholder influence, and execution of corrective actions
• Ability to influence others to get things done, even when you have no direct line of authority over them
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Experience with developing and reporting on metrics for engineering development
• Experience using work management and collaboration tools like Jira, Confluence, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams
• Software, mechanical or electrical engineering education and/or background
• Experience with MATLAB, Simulink, or comparable products desirable