Sr. Program Manager

Auction.com • Irvine, CA

63d

About The Position

At Auction.com, we’re transforming real estate. As the nation’s leading online platform for buying and selling residential bank-owned and foreclosure properties, we connect buyers, sellers, and investors with innovative technology. With over $63 billion in assets, our success is driven by a culture of innovation, collaboration, and impact. We go beyond the bid—empowering our people to thrive and shape the future of the industry. Auction.com seeks a senior program manager to track, facilitate and successfully deliver multiple strategic Business process improvement and Technology development related projects. This position requires process improvement, broad technical knowledge and skills across many applications and platforms. This position will include the management of all projects within an individual program in order to deliver successful releases of shippable products that enhance organizational success.

Requirements

• 5+ years in technology project leadership experience with a focus on cross- functional process improvements and related tools implementations.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss business and technical concepts, manage tradeoffs, and highlight risks appropriately.
• Ability to partner with technical, operational, business, and other cross-functional stakeholders across the company and ensure buy-in from key stakeholders.
• Experience driving projects through entire SDLC creating schedules managing expectations and risks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Effective in communicating across all levels of the organization from developers to executive management to partner clients.
• Bachelor’s Degree in business management information systems or related technical field.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) – required
• MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint proficiency
• SharePoint proficiency

Nice To Haves

• Certified Scrum Master - strong plus
• JIRA and Confluence – strong plus

Responsibilities

• Drive the delivery of strategic programs.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, structure, teamwork and critical thinking to organize successful delivery of multiple projects under a strategic program.
• Apply best fit methodology for program execution (i.e Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, etc) to unlock productivity, quality, and innovation.
• Facilitate release planning exercise for the program with cross-functional teams that may include members from product, engineering, operations, marketing, and business development.
• Manage & communicate program resource needs, status and critical path, risks, issues and dependencies upstream / downstream to ensure value based delivery and results. Deliver messages that are clear and concise.
• Build and develop strong working relationships with stakeholders and senior management leaders for the overall success of the program.
• Assist in cost benefit analysis preparation, resource planning, sequencing, initiative planning and delivery
• Work with cross-functional teams to establish and manage realistic and committed program schedules, taking into consideration deadlines, dependencies, resources and costs when making changes and decisions to schedule.
• Identify and analyze organizational impacts for internal stakeholders and partner with Change Management team to develop and orchestrate strategies, milestones and deliverables
• Maintain SharePoint site for the program to drive cross-functional alignment and transparency into the initiative.

Benefits

• Auction.com offers a competitive total compensation package in addition to base salary or wage, such as a 401k match, annual incentive program, healthcare coverage, and a broad range of other benefits for eligible roles.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees