Program Manager, Senior Advisory

Overview At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, Partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions. The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us! Your Role: Plans, organizes, oversees, and delivers cross-departmental program management for business-critical, time-sensitive projects through all aspects of the project lifecycle, from initiation through completion. Focuses on scalability and efficiency while partnering with key executives, fellow project managers and business transformation leads to identify cross-dependencies, communicate information, and ensure successful alignment across initiatives. Responsibilities Manage the project process and deployment to ensure on time, quality delivery. Define the programs (mission, vision, tenets), create project plans and charters and oversee their execution, set objectives, analyze data, drive improvements that are quantifiable and measurable, and influence resource allocation. Build, verify, and manage schedules based on plans and business engagements. Build and manage work hours, budgets, and expenditures for the project plan and solicit feedback from stakeholders for select projects. Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members. Ensure notation and communication of action items and update project plans accordingly. Lead actively participate in and collaborate with project-related cross-functional teams on requirements gathering, Sprint planning/retrospectives, design review, and pressure test proposals. Ensure projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is appropriately maintained. Assess gaps and build out as needed. Conduct risk assessments, remove project barriers and blockers; escalate and communicate blockers to senior leaders as required. Ensure projects are completed efficiently and effectively including documentation, training, status updates, escalation paths, etc. Contribute to defining and monitor KPIs to measure team performance and drive process improvement. Through effective cross-functional communication and collaboration with stakeholders across marketing, product, sales, and other functions, provide a thorough understanding of customer needs and the impact on their business operations. Qualifications 8-10 years’ relevant experience running programs and projects Strong communication skills to effectively liaise with both technical and non-technical staff; excellent interpersonal and organizational skills Proven project management skills with experience managing global project deployments; attention to detail and focus on quality; experience in strategic planning, risk management and/or change management Critical thinking and problem-solving skills Must be a collaborative leader comfortable working in a matrixed environment; ability to work independently and in a team setting Ability to navigate culture and politics across multiple functions Ability to quickly grasp complex business issues and translate objectives to goals and measurements; strong analytical acumen Ability to act decisively and work well under pressure; adaptable to change and evolving environments