[Remote] Program Manager TEST
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harmonic is a provider of virtualized broadband solutions and network intelligence technologies. The company is seeking a Program Manager to coordinate and deliver technical integration and deployment programs across geographically distributed teams, managing schedules, risks, stakeholders, governance, documentation, and the full project lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Project Coordination & Scheduling – Oversee the overall coordination of complex integration/deployment projects, define activities and required resources, estimate efforts, and track progress while ensuring adherence to detailed schedules
- Project Tracking & Reporting – Monitor project status, track technical issues, and provide clear and effective reporting on milestones, deliverables, expectations, dependencies, risks, mitigation plans, escalations, and overall progress
- Stakeholder Communication & Issue Management – Facilitate communication with internal and external stakeholders, addressing project-related concerns and ensuring alignment on integration and deployment efforts
- Program Governance & Best Practices – Drive program integrity and coherence by maintaining an effective environment within PMO, establishing program-related practices, templates, policies, tools, and partnerships to improve organizational capabilities
- End-to-End Project Lifecycle Management – Take full ownership of the project lifecycle, from demo and field trials to integration planning and deployment, ensuring smooth execution across all phases
- Independent Project Execution & Collaboration – Work autonomously to manage daily project activities, maintain collaboration forums, and track overall program success criteria through performance metrics and reports
- Process Standardization & Continuous Improvement – Develop and maintain standardized processes for project execution, leveraging best practices from PMO to enhance efficiency and scalability
- Project Documentation & Compliance – Create and maintain project documentation, ensuring adherence to both standard and customer-specific requirements to support seamless execution and compliance
Skills
- Strong leadership, stakeholder and customer expectation management skills
- Experience in project execution, monitoring, and control
- Experience with budget tracking and risk management, ability to identify and manage risks and mitigation strategies
- Education: Bachelor in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications or equivalent
- Deep knowledge in Project Management and PMI standards
- Ability to organize own time, meet deadlines and targets, time management
- Strong negotiations skills in both technical and commercial areas
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Ability to collaborate with clients and geographically disbursed project teams to deliver solutions that support the business requirements and align with Harmonic objectives and processes
- Confirmed PM experience in telecom customer's projects 2-3years or Service delivery manager experience >3years
- You can be based anywhere in the US and will be reporting to the Team Lead - Program Management
- Remote – this position is 100% Remote anywhere in the pacific or Mountain time zone, with travel requirements
- This position requires travel not more than 20% of time
- Engineer background in telecom area (DataCom, Core, Radio, Transport network, IT, Quality Assurance and so on), this can be a starting point of candidate career
- Understanding of networking systems hardware and software design is a plus
- Language – English at advanced level / Another European language is a plus
- Very welcome PMP, PMI, ITIL, Agile or other certification as well as professional ones CCNA, CCNP, CCIE or similar from other vendors
Benefits
- Remote – this position is 100% Remote anywhere in the pacific or Mountain time zone, with travel requirements.
- You'll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, collaborate with top talent, and be part of a company that's making a real impact.
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