Sr Technical Program Manager, Engineering Operations
Uber
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
- Vast
- Voltijds
- Lead and manage complex, large-scale engineering programs focusing on enhancing efficiency and productivity across Uber's engineering landscape.
- Partner with product and engineering to design and develop plans to implement strategic goals, prioritize investments and features, and drive implementation
- Develop, track, coordinate end-to-end project schedules (e.g., epics, sprint plans, milestones, timelines and releases) across multiple strategic investments, monitor delivery and release processes, ensuring stakeholder accountability.
- Identify communication gaps, manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities. Drive results proactively.
- Ensure alignment on tradeoffs, adjustments, and improvements as feasible.
- Champion continuous process optimizations that align with the organization's strategic goals, ensuring sustainable success and competitive advantage.
- Proactively identify and address blockers, escalate issues, and mitigate project risks.
- Makes adjustments or course corrections when projects are not aligned to schedules or goals.
- Mentor project management skills within our engineering leadership team.
- +6 years experience as a TPM or Engineering Manager in a Software or SaaS development environment
- 3+ years of leadership experience leading large scale process transformations at an enterprise scale.
- Proven track record in developing operational and executive dashboards leveraging Tableau, Grafana, Jira, Google Data Studio or other data visualization tools.
- Deep technical domain knowledge of JIRA or equivalent workflow management platforms
- Experience determining effective program KPIs and using them to measure program success and issues.
- Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, challenges, and risks. Engineers enjoy working closely with you.
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent in identifying process gaps, measuring progress, and balancing engineering and product efficiency with process overhead.
- Excellent written and presentation skills are required, including the ability to lead meetings, workshops, and reviews for both small groups and large audiences, including company leadership.
- Experience in Data Science and Analytics
- Experience in Strategic OKR planning, and financial budget planning and forecasting
- Experience in leading monthly/quarterly/semi-annual business, operations or portfolio reviews