Program Manager

About Ascendion :

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

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About the Role:

Title: Program Manager Tech 3

Location: Remote

Summary

• Interface with clients on technical and business issues from project initiation through delivery. Drive program/project schedules and status reports.
• Create and/or review multiple functional specifications that will be used as tools in making decisions as to how the product or service will be implemented.
• Provide Product Managers & Product Unit Managers with technical and/or analytical information.
• Organize cross functional activities ensuring the program/project is completed on schedule and within budget constraints.

Typical Day in the Role

• Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is to work on P0 priority items – security networking, incident management.
• Key projects: This role will contribute to running projects across OPG. So the scale is large. One of the biggest requirements is for somebody who has experience working with large-scale products and does not mind interacting with large groups of people. Because we need inputs from across the org, we need to drive these initiatives across 150 service teams. Assisting in a couple of things, which in RNR team shorter incident management also being one of them.
• Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of 60% collaboration with outside teams 40% collab within the team.

Program/Execution Skills

• Drives end-to-end program ownership: roadmaps, dependencies, risks, alignment.
• Skilled at building and landing governance frameworks and program operating rhythms.
• Comfortable with Ambiguity → Structure → Action.
• Excellent at coordinating eng + finance + PM + leadership.

Data & Analytical Skills

• Cost/perf dashboards
• Metrics & telemetry
• Excel/PowerBI (even if not heavy modeling)
• Comfortable creating data-backed narratives and identifying trends/risks.

Top 3 Must-Have HARD Skills (5-7 years:)

• Understanding of Azure compute, storage, networking fundamentals.
• Expertise in building and managing program roadmaps, dependency trackers, risk logs.
• Ability to analyze cost trends, variances, and savings opportunities.

Thanks

Salary Range: $1,28,960 - 1,37,960 Annually - Factors that may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: (medical insurance) (dental insurance) (vision insurance) (09-10 days/hours of paid time off)

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