Sr. Program Manager, Engineering - Supporting Content

About the Role:

We are CrowdStrike, a fast-growing security company that protects our wide range of customers from cybersecurity attacks. We’re investing in program managers who are energetic, eager to learn, flexible and capable of managing large scale/complex engineering projects in a fast-paced environment.

As a Program Manager, you'll be responsible for directly and fully supporting and engaging in the work and projects of the Content Product Group, whose mission is to provide capabilities for our customers through the continuous evolution of detection and prevention methods and techniques related to our world-class Falcon Host product ensuring detection and prevention methods are covering the latest threats and providing actionable intelligence to customers.

Your primary focus will entail driving the scheduling, scoping and execution of projects for the teams you support, working directly with the Engineering Developers, the Product Managers, and the Dev Managers in order to ensure timely delivery against the roadmap. You’ll work closely across functional teams and across geo-locations in Israel, Europe, and the United States to collaborate and ensure dependencies are well known, critical issues are identified and driven to resolution.

Please note: This role is open to candidates in the UK & Ireland only.

What You'll Do:

• Partnering and direct facilitation with teams at all levels; from in the weeds with developers on projects to summations at the executive level.

• Demonstrates the ability to learn and communicate technical context and align it with business objectives to help drive project deliverables, resources, and timelines.

• Creating and driving the project schedule, working with dev management task assignments, and managing schedule progress; from large phases through to detailed tasks, including understanding and managing dependencies within and across Product Groups.

• Collaborating with staff and management of multiple worldwide business units (including subject matter experts, product management, design teams, and technology teams) to clearly identify, explain, and communicate their project involvement, project goals, expectations, and tasks.

• Proactively tracks the status of project activities and ensures that schedules and priorities are being met.

• Ensures critical issues are identified, tracked through resolution, and escalated if necessary.

• Proactively manages daily/weekly project communication and status reporting.

• Leads Scrum meetings and creates and follows up on meeting minutes/action items.

• Flexibly working across timezones to help coordinate and follow up on work.

• Willingness to travel both locally and internationally several times a quarter.

What You'll Need:

• Must be proficient in the use of Jira (query/ticket creation, board creation and facilitation).

• 10+ years of experience working in a program/project management capacity for software development.

• Experience with/exposure to large scale platforms (cloud technologies), complex inter-dependent technologies.

• Seasoned team coach that manages and alleviates (instead of running from) persistent obstacles.

• Experience with Software Development Lifecycle and Project Management Methodologies, specifically Agile/Scrum. Experience with Scaled Agile Framework methodology a plus.

• Experience owning a program/ portfolio of products/features, scoping requirements, planning milestones, and being an active resource for technical teams.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.

• Must enjoy consensus-driven environments where collaboration, honest and open communications are paramount.

• Must work effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team.

• Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail, and have the ability to make logical, timely decisions.

• Excel at proactively and independently driving results in small team environments.

• Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment.

• Ability to extrapolate context from complex technical conversations, and provide teams with valuable summations around action items and next steps.