CloudHealth by VMware is the recognized worldwide leader in the growing Cloud Management industry. We partner with many of the largest enterprise cloud consumers in the world, serving more than 7,000 customers, and managing almost $10B in public cloud spend.

Our comprehensive Cloud Management Platform helps companies and partners of all sizes to transform the way they do business by analyzing, visualizing and optimizing their public, hybrid, and private cloud environments for cost, security, automated operations and broad governance. By focusing on innovative technology, a deep understanding of our customer’s pain, and a fundamental desire to continuously improve, we have driven a highly successful SaaS business. 

We are looking for someone with prior experience and thought leadership to define and lead the growth of the Program Management function in our Product Group. 

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for defining and driving the future direction of our Program Management function.
• Develop key processes, and iterate, improve, and optimize them to scale.
• Grow and manage a Program Management team in accordance with our Operating Plan.
• Provide overarching governance over all deliverables across our most complex product and technology projects.
• Ensure that all active Product and Engineering portfolio programs are tracked with clear, concise, and precise status; and be consumable by cross-functional stakeholders.
• Communicate frequently and broadly with all levels of the organization, from our Executive team, through all layers of management, and to individuals.
• Govern our Customer Champions program to ensure strong advocacy within the Product Group.
• Govern the use of Product Group metrics that determine “how we’re doing”.

Successful candidate will have:

• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in a technology company
• A minimum of 5 years’ professional experience close to an organization building and maintaining a SaaS product
• Excellent organizational, prioritization and multitasking skills
• Ability to influence and work collaboratively with people in all roles/teams
• Ability to adapt to fast-changing nature of SaaS market, and can pivot and learn quickly
• Ability to develop and track detailed project plans, schedules, dependencies, and identify critical paths and bottlenecks to avoid delays.
• Ability to proactively identify risks, issues and drive their resolution.
• Attention to detail and excellent listening/speaking skills
• Strong verbal/written communication skills
• Strong analytics, with a data-driven approach to decision making
• BS or BA degree, with a strong plus for computer science /engineering

This job requisition is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsored by VMware

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