Senior Program Manager
4 days ago
Edmonton, Division No. 11, Canada
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ecobee introduced the world’s first smart Wi-Fi thermostat to help millions of consumers save money, conserve energy, and bring home automation into their lives.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of assigned programs of moderate complexity through planning, execution, launch readiness, and closeout.
- Develop, maintain, and communicate integrated program plans that reflect scope, timing, capacity, dependencies, risks, milestones, and key decision points.
- Manage dependencies, resource constraints, sequencing, and delivery risks across related programs within the product line or line of business, escalating conflicts with clear recommendations.
- Frame trade-offs with clear options, impacts, risks, and recommendations to drive timely decisions when scope, schedule, cost, capacity, quality, customer needs, or downstream commitments conflict.
- Translate product requirements and business objectives into clear delivery scope, milestones, and product realization plans in partnership with Product and Engineering.
- Lead programs through Generac NPD processes, including milestone, design, and gate reviews using accurate, decision-ready information.
- Drive execution with appropriate urgency by identifying blockers, clarifying ownership, escalating risks, and ensuring teams understand the decisions and actions required to maintain progress.
- Understand technical decisions at a systems level and surface schedule, cost, compliance, integration, or dependency implications proactively.
- Facilitate cross-functional alignment with documented outcomes, clear ownership, and proactive management of inter-team dependencies and conflicts.
- Own change control for material changes to scope or plan, including impact assessment and decision documentation to secure stakeholder alignment.
- Apply lessons learned, propose improvements to program management and NPD practices, and help drive adoption across the PgM team and supported business areas.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology or Management, Computer Science, or another directly engineering-related field.
- 10 years of progressive experience in engineering, product management, or a related field, including 8 years of program management experience leading cross-functional teams through end-to-end delivery.
- Demonstrated experience managing new product development programs from end-to-end, using a phase-gate (or similar) development process.
- Experience supporting full-system product releases including hardware, software, firmware, manufacturing, supply chain, service, and launch readiness.
- PMP, PgMP, or related certification with demonstrated practical application.
- Experience working with global teams, international suppliers, or distributed development and manufacturing organizations.