Staff Technical Program Manager, Aviatrix Systems
$173.2-192.6k
+ Equity
Secure cloud networking
Open for applications
Secure cloud networking
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$173.2-192.6k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to accelerate innovation, minimize downtime, and gain control of IT costs.
Role
Who you are
- Aviatrix is looking for a strong program leader who can autonomously execute and operate in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- We want someone who is comfortable wearing multiple hats such as Technical Program Manager, Release Manager, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Process Designer, Storyteller, and Jira Guru / Ticket Wrangler
- The role is an amazing opportunity for a creative thinker, looking to make an immediate impact at a fast-growing, innovative tech company
- If you have a passion for solving ambiguous problems, optimizing processes, and scaling businesses using analytical and general management skills, this role is for you!
- 10+ years of experience as Program Manager in software, embedded, networking, or new product development
- 3+ years of experience mentoring others in the program management discipline
- You are flexible, enthusiastic and have a can-do attitude
- You are the team player that everyone wants on their team
- You are entrepreneurial, with a high tolerance for ambiguity, rapid-changes, and complexity
- PMP and CSM preferred
What the job involves
- From day one you will be driving some of the most critical enterprise-wide initiatives at Aviatrix – building & improving our soaring airplane while in-flight
- You will be bringing your experience with best-in-class frameworks and processes for work in-take, prioritization, software product development processes, team management, program planning, problem-solving, decision-making, collaboration, strategic alignment, and innovation
- You will help Aviatrix scale with clarity and sane, compassionate collaboration
- The ideal candidate should expect that their daily activities will be both strategic and tactical in nature and they need to be adept at both since there is no administrative, project management, or scrum master support
- Program Leadership: Communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to cross-functional program teams, get buy-in, and deliver quality programs on time, scope, and budget
- Release Management: Drive / orchestrate the 11th hour activities by the cross functional team to release product(s)
- Definition and Requirements Refinement: Collaborate with stakeholders to gather & refine requirements, define program scope, and prioritize deliverables
- Planning: Develop and maintain program-level plans and schedules, including resources, and dependencies
- Scheduling: Work within time constraints to meet critical business needs - often managing multiple, time-sensitive and high priority initiatives simultaneously
- Risk & Issue management: Know when you can handle risks with your teams and when they need to be escalated
- Transparency: Track and report on program progress, including status updates and KPIs. Publish and maintain program dashboards and drive regular reviews - both Push & Pull
- Relationship Building: Partner with multiple cross-functional stakeholders and team members to ensure alignment. Build effective relationships and networks that drive action
- Influence-ability: Empathetically connect and catalyze people within a matrixed-management environment
- Communication: Simplify complex challenges into pragmatic actionable plans. Be a storyteller and a master at articulating program vision while addressing stakeholders’ needs
- Coaching: Shape diverse teams into cohesive, high-performing innovation engines. Mentor others on software delivery best practices as needed. You should have the heart of a teacher/coach and be the authority on Program and Project Management methodologies/techniques including Scrum/Kanban, SAFe, Hybrid Product Development, & Waterfall
- Process Design: Identify and design enterprise-wide processes that increase successful program delivery
- Change Management: Establish and execute sound and structured change roll-out plans so as to ensure adoption and institutionalization
- Tools Experience: Establish Jira best practices and hygiene. Be a master ticket wrangler as well as a guru at data visualization with the ability to transform a lot of complex and detailed data into something a 5th grader could understand
- Reflection and Improvement: All day, every day, have an eye out for what can be improved and make it happen!
Our take
Aviatrix is trying to modernise cloud technology by overcoming the isolation of different clouds that are built and operated by different companies. Its software facilitates multi-cloud networking, providing visualization, smooth data access, and firewall management.
The cloud revolution caused a mass migration of companies’ data from on-premise storage to cloud storage, but this migration is still ongoing. Aviatrix’s software helps with this migration and then allows these clouds to communicate with each other, while maintaining security, data integrity, automation, and user friendliness.
The rapid growth and enormous potential in this market has been noted by other companies and while investments are currently high, the space is likely to become crowded as competitors such as Site24x7 offer similar services. However, Aviatrix is a well-placed early adopter in an area of networking that hasn’t seen true innovation for years. It has also been named as one of 2024 's fastest growing private companies by Inc 5000, indicating its strong position.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$75m
SERIES D
Total funding: $340.8m
Company benefits
- Stock options for all full-time employees
- Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)
- Flexible Vacation
- Up to $1000 education reimbursement anually
- World-class coverage - we pay 100% of employee premiums and 88% of the family cost
- 401K
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Sherry Wei
(Advisor)Having taken a PhD at Purdue University, they worked in Technical Staff at Centillion Networks and Ardent Communications before spending almost 14 years at Cisco Systems as an Engineer Manager. They then worked at Huawei for just over a year before founding Aviatrix in January 2013.
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