Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vasion is a company dedicated to making digital transformation attainable for everyone through cloud-native enterprise software. They are seeking a Program Manager to adopt and implement a Product Development Life Cycle, working closely with engineering and product management teams to enhance processes and ensure effective program management.
Responsibilities
- Operate as an embedded PDLC practitioner, modeling the framework and helping cross-functional partners understand why it exists and how to use it
- Coach engineering and product management team members on PDLC practices by meeting them where they are, not where the playbook says they should be
- Build trust through consistency, follow-through, and genuine partnership, not process authority
- Communicate the value of the PDLC to engineering clearly and often: reduced context-switching, clearer scope handoffs, fewer rebuilds, better predictability
- Partner with the VP of PgM to build, document, and refine processes, templates, stage gate criteria, and governance standards
- Develop and maintain playbooks and documentation that make the PDLC accessible across Product Management and Engineering
- Translate on-the-ground experience into framework improvements
- Own the full lifecycle of assigned programs from Discovery through Grow: scope, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables at every stage
- Build program plans that give Product Management, Engineering, Design, QA, and Go-to-Market a shared view of what is happening, what is next, and who owns what
- Stay ahead of risks and blockers; bring well-reasoned options to the VP before problems compound
- Facilitate kick-offs, stage gate reviews, cross-functional syncs, and retrospectives to drive clear outcomes and documented next steps every time
- Serve as the day-to-day coordination point between Product Management, Engineering, Design, QA, and Go-to-Market for programs in your portfolio
- Surface and resolve cross-team misalignments and dependency conflicts before they impact delivery
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date program documentation throughout the full lifecycle
- Treat documentation as a core part of program quality in order to make programs reproducible, learnable, and increasingly agent-ready
Skills
- 5-8 years of program management experience in software, at the program level across multiple teams
- Cross-functional programs through multiple phases of a product or software development lifecycle
- Embedded directly within engineering and/or product management teams, not a centralized PMO
- Participated in or drove a process or operating model change
- Fluency with Atlassian (Jira/Confluence), Notion, and/or Adobe Workfront
- B2B SaaS or enterprise software experience strongly preferred
- Drives alignment through credibility and partnership, not role authority
- Understands why a process step exists and can explain it plainly to skeptical teams
- Decomposes complex initiatives into legible phases without over-engineering
- Genuinely curious about AI and already using it
- Treats friction as information, not failure
- Cares about the outcome more than the credit
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
- PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP, or equivalent a plus
- Dual-track agile, Shape Up, OKR-based planning, or similar lean frameworks
- Product management discovery concepts: opportunity mapping, user story mapping, hypothesis-driven development
- Supported both product management and engineering within the same organization
- High-growth or PE-backed software environment
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
- Discretionary Vacation Bonus
- Flexible paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Competitive pay
- A full suite of traditional benefits
- Training/Advancement opportunities
- 401k with company match and immediate vesting
- Financial wellness education
- Mental Wellness Support
- Company-contributed HSA
- Onsite perks include gym, pickleball, snacks & drinks, arcade, theater room, etc.
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