Job Description

Job Description

The New York Times is looking for an experienced Program Manager to lead a strategic program and support daily operations within the Delivery Engineering portfolio. You will report to the New York Times Program Management Office (PMO).

The Delivery Engineering team is an essential part of The New York Times' engineering organization. Its responsibilities are technical and include system observability, cloud architecture, developer tooling, and development processes, to name a few. The primary goal of the Delivery Engineering team is to build tools/automation and SRE practices for product engineering teams, helping them deliver and take operational responsibility of their own software within The New York Times ecosystem.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

We're looking for an action-oriented, hands-on program manager who can manage multiple projects and work with teams across Technology, focusing on cloud strategy and edge infrastructure work. As a program manager, you will track milestones, lead scrum ceremonies, identify/remove roadblocks, and provide status updates to stakeholders. You will identify opportunities to help the Delivery Engineering portfolio, suggest solutions, and act decisively to advance a project.

In addition to team-based program management, you will take on challenging projects from time to time that are outside the bounds of your immediate team. You will need to form relationships and develop experience navigating our organization on behalf of yourself, a project, or a team. You'll need to artfully employ different software delivery lifecycle methodologies including Agile, Hybrid and Waterfall techniques as needed.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Embrace a servant leader role for software development teams, driving definition and execution of features and products

* Facilitate a culture of continuous delivery and empower teams to regularly deliver value.

* Partner with product, design and engineering team leads to define goals, milestones, and scope work

* Manage cross-team dependencies. Proactively monitor risk and seek out, track, and remove barriers to successful project completion

* Maintain project schedules and roadmaps. Communicate status and progress to the project team, stakeholders, and leadership

* Champion agile processes, while also inspecting when practices need to be examined and adapted for the needs of a team or project

* Drive engagements and shared goals with teams across technology.

* Take on challenging projects from time to time that are outside of the bounds of your day-to-day teams

QUALIFICATIONS:

* Minimum of 4 years of project/program management experience

* Versed in the art and science of program management, with a toolkit of agile/traditional project management methodologies to deploy as needed

* Experience working with software development or cloud infrastructure projects; an ability to learn technical concepts quickly and communicate those concepts to others

* Mastery of a broad suite of program management tooling, including: JIRA, Miro, Trello, Airtable and other work-tracking/communication tools.

* Capable of taking ownership of complex efforts and mediate between competing interests and personalities to get alignment and motivate change. You identify and resolve problems before they occur

* Superb communication skills, including the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical contributors. This role will be required to communicate across our NYT technology organization sans oversight

* Passion for The New York Times's mission and commitment to be part of our innovation and growth

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The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local Fair Chance laws.