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Senior Program Manager

Sandy, UTOnsiteFull TimeSeniorPosted 4 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

NICE CXone
software features
software development activities
governance
standardization
planning efficiency
market requirements
actionable work items
software development lifecycle
program goals

Nice to have

Product Management experience
graphical user experience
user interface design
object-oriented software development
web services
web development

Role summary

NICE CXone is seeking a Senior Program Manager in Salt Lake City, UT, to drive and standardize software development from concept to completion. This hybrid role focuses on governance, planning efficiency, and executing the product vision through the software development lifecycle. Responsibilities include collaborating with Product Management, defining technical requirements, acting as Scrum Master for multiple teams, managing releases, and providing status updates. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of project leadership, 3+ years in product definition and launch, and experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies, along with a strong technical background in contact center technologies. Experience in people management is preferred.

At NiCE, we don’t limit our challenges. We challenge our limits. Always. We’re ambitious. We’re game changers. And we play to win. We set the highest standards and execute beyond them. And if you’re like us, we can offer you the ultimate career opportunity that will light a fire within you.

Senior Program Manager

Location: Salt Lake City, UT (hybrid, 2 days on-site)

The Sr. Program Manager serves an instrumental role in delivering NICE CXone software features to the marketplace. Fulfilling the role as Senior Program Manager will help drive, plan and standardize software development activities from concept to completion. This person is responsible for driving organizational success through governance, standardization, and planning efficiency efforts. Major Functions/Responsibility

The Program Manager collaborates with Product Management to disseminate market requirements and concepts into actionable work items for Architects, Software Engineers, and Quality Assurance Engineers.

Execute the product vision through the software development lifecycle to ensure program goals are met.

Interface with teams throughout company to drive, plan, and implement software objectives.

Work closely with Product Management to break down product backlog items and disseminate them into technical requirements.

Drive and lead the team on a daily basis ensuring that team plans, estimates, documents, and products deliver features on schedule and within budget.

Perform the scrum master role for multiple teams.

Identify resource conflicts, influence and facilitate course corrections to fulfill key project milestones.

Provide timely project status updates, risks and issues to all stakeholders.

Coordinate Release Management to schedule, communicate and drive releases onto each environment.

Give clear and timely direction for product and project questions.

Coordinate with Product Management for product launches and technical documentation.

Be an expert with respect to the product line and usability.

Create and communicate visual layouts and proof-of-concepts.

Good understanding of competitive landscape.

Maintain and share deep understanding of the product from the end-user perspective.

Research available technologies and capabilities in order to drive the most effective product solutions.

Participate in continuous process and program improvement that lead to reduced costs, time-to-market and increased predictability.

Occasional travel for client-site visits or industry tradeshows.

May also manage other program or project managers.

Occasional staff selection, coaching, goals, performance, and evaluations.

Share job knowledge, skills and ideas with other employees.

Follow the company Code of Ethics and inContact policies and procedures at all times.

Communicate in an effective and professional way with customers in and outside of inContact.

Required Education, Experience and Job Related Skills:

Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field or equivalent work experience required. Technical or industry certifications are preferred in addition to the required education/experience.

4+ years of project leadership in a cross-functional environment

4+ years hands-on experience working in a key software development lifecycle role

3+ year of demonstrated success defining and launching products

3+ years of demonstrated experience writing software specifications

Experience with Agile/Scrum, RUP, and other modern development methodologies – preferably serving as a Scrum Master

Demonstrated progressive work experience in a lead role

Proactive, responsive and committed to removing roadblocks to fulfill timelines

Strategic thinker, consensus builder

Understands and translates non-technical feature descriptions into structured use cases, requirements, and specifications for technical audiences

Ability to interact well with technical and non-technical people and serve as a bridge to translate complex requirements and concepts

Experience working with and influencing cross-functional teams without formal authority

Strong technical background with experience in communications, telephony, hosted-solutions, or contact center related fields

Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects in a changing and fast paced environment

Excellent facilitation, interviewing, and presentation skills

Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Experience Preferred:

Product Management experience using formal techniques and principles

Experience working with graphical user experience and user interface design

Experience working with object-oriented software development, web services, web development or other similar technical products

Understanding of standard engineering processes and software development methodologies

Experience with user acceptance testing, regression testing, integration testing.

PMI, PMP, Certified Scrum Practioner, Certified Scrum Master certifications

ABOUT NICE CXone: NICE CXone makes it easy and affordable for organizations around the globe to provide exceptional customer experiences while meeting key business metrics. NICE CXone provides the world’s No. 1 cloud customer experience platform, NICE CXone™, combining best-in-class Omnichannel Routing, Workforce Optimization, Analytics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence on an Open Cloud Foundation.

About NiCE

NICE Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE) software products are used by 25,000+ global businesses, including 85 of the Fortune 100 corporations, to deliver extraordinary customer experiences, fight financial crime and ensure public safety. Every day, NiCE software manages more than 120 million customer interactions and monitors 3+ billion financial transactions.

Known as an innovation powerhouse that excels in AI, cloud and digital, NiCE is consistently recognized as the market leader in its domains, with over 8,500 employees across 30+ countries.

NiCE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, neurotype, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.

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