Senior Manager Technical Program Management

Overview:

At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer's and partner's needs and solve their challenges.

Being part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.

You’ll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about-locally and globally.

Come make an impact every day at Zebra.

What We’re Looking For:

Zebra’s Wearable Solutions business unit focuses on developing compact, small form factored wearables products and advanced AI solutions that runs on these devices to enable enterprise customers run their operations with increased productivity.

Our technical and solutions program management team is responsible for leading a cross-functional team of Systems, Hardware, Firmware and Software Engineers, Test Engineers, Supply chain Operations, etc. from initial concept to deployment.

We are seeking a Senior Manager of Technical Program Manager (software and hardware) with proven functional leadership ability to develop a team of program managers operating across all levels of the organization. S/he will drive strategic initiatives and solutions development in realizing our company’s vision.

The ideal candidate will have an engineering background and will meet complex program goals for product performance, quality goals, regulatory compliance requirements, cost, schedule and development budget.

You will partner with Product Management, Marketing, and our Experience Designers to define the product, solidify the business case, and author the product and experience specifications. Given our multitude of design and development partners, participates with negotiations involving Business Development and Legal.

This role is a minimum of 3-days per week on-site in Zebra’s Mississauga, Ontario, Canada office, 2 days remote.

This posting is for an existing vacancy at Zebra Technologies.

• Works independently with business in defining proof of value and customer's return on investment.
• Explores and understands competitive landscape in both product and business terms. Defines strategic initiatives to align the business to agile product development.
• Work closely with Portfolio Management to ensure strategic goals align and are represented in the innovation feature roadmap. Lead development of business plans, strategies and approaches to take advantage of business opportunities.
• Leads strategic partnerships with technology companies (including startups) that are developing adjacent new cutting-edge solution elements.
• Provides functional leadership of program management teams with possible direct supervision of senior PMs and managers.
• Independently drives team growth and development plans and supports individual's execution of development activities such as training, mentorships, and guiding growth opportunities for high potentials.
• Provides team leadership for cross-functional innovation teams.
• Drives execution of solutions inclusive of concept definition, requirements validation, architecture specification, and governance compliance to our Application Lifecycle Management framework.
• Balances scope, schedule and budget considerations to adjust the project with minimal impact to the business. Understands the business objectives of the program and assumes personal accountability for success of the program against those objectives.
• Establishes standards of performance across programs that are typically complex in nature with cross-functional teams in numerous locations and time zones.
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives to improve quality, increase efficiency and accelerate time to market.
• Leads system integration planning, release management, and planning for demonstrations, proof of concepts and pilots.
• Leads creating cross functional workstreams and driving execution for sales enablement, development and deployment.
• Independently builds relationships and working across all relevant areas of the solution business including Sales, Services, IT, Finance, Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Support.
• Organizes and presents business, technical and program reviews/status to Senior Leadership using digital media and dashboards.
• Recognized as an "expert" in the business function and processes in which the program is operating.
• Motivates teams to ensure solutions are reliable and of quality, in a highly coll