Program Manager -Hybrid Seattle or Santa Monica

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Job description

At Akkodis, we use our insight, knowledge, and global resources to make exceptional connections every day. With 60 branch offices located strategically throughout North America, we are positioned perfectly to deliver the industry's top talent to each of our clients. Clients choose Akkodis as their workforce partner to solve staffing challenges that range from locating hard-to-find niche talent to completing quick-fill demands.

JOB TIE: Program Manager

EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Contract - 12-18 Months

COMPENSATION: $80-$86/per hour

LOCATION DETAILS: 1st Choice is Seattle or Santa Monica.-3days onsite

JOB TITLE:

The Senior Technical Program Manager role is a key program position that will drive efficiency and

coordination to support the Events & Signals Platform team that serves a unique role in

decoupling backend services from incoming client signals and providing back-end teams with

reliable, enriched, targeted, higher-order event streams.

Responsibilities:

- Provide technical program management support to the Events & Signals Platform

engineering team and assist where needed in overall program coordination throughout

the Engagement Experiences and Platforms organization.

- Manage three technical teams, serve in scrum ceremonies, and provide release support

as needed.

- Lead planning meetings, scrum ceremonies and cross functional coordination.

- Proactively work with product management and other project stakeholders to prioritize

initiatives, define project scope and objectives, understand requirements, and effectively

communicate requirements to engineering teams to drive projects forward.

- Work with engineering teams and leadership to establish processes that will ensure

success on high priority business initiatives and improve efficiency.

- Manage program reporting for engineering efforts.

- Identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate, and communicate project risks to internal and

external partners.

- Ensure Jira hygiene for all Events & Signals Platform initiatives including the recording

and tagging of tickets to the appropriate business initiatives and releases.

- Create and maintain Jira reports, dashboards, burndowns, and track velocity.

- Be a counterpart to the Events & Signals Platform engineering managers and team

members.

- Demonstrate technical adeptness in order to understand and effectively converse in the

Events & Signals Platform domain.

- Establish and cultivate strong relationships with all stakeholders and leverage these to

develop an understanding of their short-term and long-term goals and priorities in order

to ensure organizational alignment.

- Manage schedules and capacity planning to ensure the team is able to deliver within

project scope and duration alongside other existing priorities.

Basic Qualifications:

- Have extensive experience in Technical Project/Program Management, with 8+ years of

experience in the software industry.

- Have experience in managing multiple technical teams, scrum teams, software

development lifecycle delivery, and release management of back-end service and

consumer-facing software.

- Have experience executing Agile and other software development methodologies.

- Have extensive experience with industry-standard project management tools such as

JIRA and Confluence to generate reports, dashboards, burndowns, and track velocity.

- Excel in leading effective meetings, planning, documenting decisions and follow up.

- Can effectively manage project tracking and reporting at all levels within the company.

- Display initiative, take a proactive approach, and be able to start the conversation and

guide other program leads in process development. Consistently evaluating processes

and seeking ways to improve at every iteration.

- Have developed essential soft skills including meeting facilitation, communication,

teamwork, collaboration, flexibility, problem solving, critical thinking, & conflict

resolution.

- Learn quickly and enthusiastically, particularly about technical systems and issues.

- Maintain a positive attitude and deliver through ambiguity.

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short-term disability insurance, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits and 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs which are direct hire to a client

To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please visit The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pay Details: $80.00 to $87.00 per hour

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please navigate to

The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

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