Geico Insurance-posted 2 months ago
Full-time • Manager
Palo Alto, CA
5,001-10,000 employees
Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That's why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. Director Technical Program Manager acts as a strategic partner and force multiplier for the organization's leadership, by managing priorities, overseeing internal processes, and driving special horizontal initiatives. This role involves strategic planning, ensuring organizational operational efficiency, facilitating communication, and making data-driven decision support, effectively serving as the glue that binds the organization and the pulse that keeps everything flowing efficiently and effectively.

  • Collaborate with engineering and cross-functional teams to define program requirements, set priorities, and establish scope, including defining the roadmap and long-term strategy.
  • Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and changes effectively by optimizing scope, schedule, and resources accordingly.
  • Communicate to stakeholders effectively and proactively.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to drive technical analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-implementation phases.
  • Define and track key metrics and quality and performance indicators, driving cross-functional execution of program deliverables.
  • Proactively identify and analyze complex, long-term, critical problems with engineering leaders and stakeholders.
  • Provide regular updates to senior leadership on project status, risks, and mitigation strategies.
  • Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.
  • Must be able to, with or without accommodation, perform the essential functions which include, but are not limited to seeing, hearing, typing and speaking.
  • Must be able to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly.
  • Must be able to use a PC.
  • Must be able to follow complex instructions, resolve conflicts or facilitate conflict resolution, and have strong organization/priority setting skills.
  • Must be able to multi-task.
  • Must be able to learn and apply large amounts of technical and procedural information and follow processes that have been published.
  • Must be able to communicate in a clear, concise, professional oral or written manner, to be understood by customers, clients, co-workers and other employees of the organization.
  • Must be able to perform under pressure and stressful situations.
  • Must be able to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly.
  • Must be able to gather user needs, requirements, and defining large scale program scope accordingly.
  • Must be able to operate autonomously across multiple teams & global regions, demonstrating critical thinking and thought leadership.
  • Must be able to work with technical leadership to develop systems, solutions, and products.
  • Must be able to utilize project management methodologies, tools (ADO), and best practices.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.
  • 10+ years of experience managing highly technical engineering programs or products at scale, from inception to implementation.
  • 8+ years of engineering or technical product / program management experience.
  • Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family's overall well-being.
  • Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
  • Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
  • Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
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