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Program Managaer
As a Program Manager, you can expect to...
Manage the day-to-day execution of projects and programs:
- Develop and maintain schedules and coordinate resources to meet program objectives
- Facilitate the removal of barriers, the coordination of dependencies, and the management of risk
- Track program cost and deliverables to effectively achieve contractual compliance and meet budgets
- Serve as the primary point of contact for both internal and external customers for assigned programs
- Communicate routine project status, risk assessments, and issues while quickly adapting to new challenges or changing requirements
Advance the business through the evaluation and planning of new opportunities:
- Take an active role in assisting with authoring responses to request for information and request for proposals
- Serve as a bridge between technical and business goals when evaluating new and follow-on opportunities and efforts
- Create cost estimates, generate BOEs, and evaluate staffing requirements for a wide range of projects and programs
- Assist with breaking down requirements into technical implications and plans
Use technical expertise to take an active role in product management
- Work closely with the engineering team to solve technical challenges and meet development and customer milestones
- Interface with all functional groups within the engineering team to understand complete program status and recommended solutions
- Decompose evolving customer and market needs into technical action plans
- Act as an effective decision-maker that is able to understand and balance priorities effectively and efficiently
A successful candidate may have...
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Physics, or other technical discipline
- 10 or more years industry experience and 3 or more years of proven technical project or product management experience
- Experience with cost estimating, BOE generation, schedule, and budget management
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability and experience interfacing directly with customers
- A goal-oriented mindset with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment and overcome technical challenges through teamwork and collaboration
- Experience with or the desire to learn about:
- Functional leadership
- Radars, sensors, and other communication systems
- Cloud-based and embedded software systems
- Authorship of winning proposals
The location of this position has the ability to be remote, hybrid or onsite in the Syracuse, NY office.