Senior Technical Program Manager

Position Overview

Autodesk's Entertainment & Media Solutions (EMS) team is on a mission to enable anyone, anywhere, to create incredible digital entertainment.

Our tools empower studios and artists worldwide to bring to life the captivating creatures, immersive worlds, and compelling characters seen in the games, shows, and movies we enjoy every day.

We’re hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to drive end-to-end program execution. Reporting to our Senior Manager, Technical Program Management, you'll lead implementations for our media and entertainment customers (Autodesk Flow).

You’ll partner with Product Management, Software Engineering, and Design teams, to drive cross-team collaboration within EMS so we can successfully deliver complex technical solutions.

You will be accountable for the delivery of technical programs and initiatives, including planning, execution, risk management, dependency management, and stakeholder alignment.

To be successful in this role, you possess a blend of technical expertise, business acumen and a strong capacity to build and develop relationships across different teams and organizational levels.

Responsibilities

Create alignment on cross organizations initiatives through outcome driven planning, dependency management and impediment removal

Engage with engineering leadership and teams to build clear delivery plans

Monitor and refine delivery plans throughout program execution and communicate frequently with stakeholders about progress against goals

Collaborate with teams to remove impediments by supporting software development teams with exception handling, own risk identification and mitigation analysis to address potential roadblocks, reduce time wasters, optimize delivery, and improve internal team's satisfaction of our delivery process

Guide Development team program efforts on providing technical solutions from design through delivery

Drive automation of delivery processes that span across teams (design, development, and operations) with transparency and clarity as a focus

Drive continuous improvement and our science-based, Kaizen culture by leading change through retrospectives and lessons learned

Own the communication of program health, initiatives and achievements to Autodesk teams and divisional leadership

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of experience in a technical program manager capacity or similar role, in technology, computer software or related industry

Experience leading end to end programs with high accountability

Experience working directly with software development teams on complex initiatives involving multiple teams and in an Agile environment

Demonstrated knowledge of distributed systems, cloud services, and / or cloud platform

Experience managing different company stakeholders, from technical teams to business leaders, product managers and designers

Demonstrated experience developing presentations and written communications on program status for different company stakeholders

Ability to impart a sense of urgency, zeal for process and operational excellence

Experience using technical tools to scale programs and solutions

Preferred Qualifications

Solid knowledge of system design and data analytics

Experience in leading technical program for cloud products and platforms

3+ years of experience in driving program delivery in an Agile environment

Knowledge and experience in the Media and Entertainment industry

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About Autodesk

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We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

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