Senior Program Manager

4 days ago

Edmonton, Division No. 11, Canada NextGenEnergyJobs Full-time

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.
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