Job Description

As a Senior Program Manager, you will be a key player in driving the successful execution of complex projects that span both hardware and software development. Your role will involve strategic planning, team leadership, tracking, reporting and communication across Infinera's components and modules organization. The Senior Program Manager is required to lead and demonstrate the standard Program Management methodology across all team members, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and consistency. They will interact with multiple stakeholders and executive leadership team throughout the program lifecycle.

• Organize, plan, direct and coordinate day-to-day activities of running a program.
• Works with stakeholders to ensure program scope definition meets business objectives.
• Create well-structured schedules and milestones for hardware and software initiatives.
• Lead meetings with project teams to discuss strategies and progress.
• Proactively engage with cross-functional stakeholders to identify interdependencies, resolve issues, and drive initiatives.
• Directs the communication of status, issue, and risk disposition to all stakeholders, including executive management, on a timely basis. Directs the identification of risks which impact program delivery and ensure mitigation.
• Champion Infinera's Product Life-Cycle Process and drive the project milestone/gate reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience leading large global technology initiatives.
• Experience in telecommunications / optical industry a huge plus.
• Proven track record managing complex projects in both hardware and software domains.
• Familiarity with both waterfall and agile project management methodologies.
• Comfortable navigating tough situations, balancing priorities and managing constraints while running sophisticated, fast-paced, programs Self-starter with the ability to successfully navigate situations with a varying degree of ambiguity with a bias for action.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple competing priorities and can rapidly turn around work product experience working under pressure. Confidence to provide dissenting views when appropriate AND excellent interpersonal skills with ability to lead, interact with, focus, negotiate, resolve conflict, and drive consensus among individuals from a variety of cultures and disciplines.
• Highly adept at influencing upward and downward without direct reporting relationship.
• High attention to detail; Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written; ability to present at all levels.
• Experience leading a diverse group of individuals, with different experience and skillsets, and experience leading both full-time employees and contingent staff.
• Certification in project/program management such as PMP is a plus.

#LI-JP1Infinera is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Infinera complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.

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