Job Description

Principal Program Manager Druva delivers Data Protection and Management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Druva is trusted worldwide by over 4,000 companies at the forefront of embracing the cloud. Druva is a privately held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and is funded by Sequoia Capital, Viking Global Investors, Tenaya Capital, Riverwood Capital, and Nexus Partners.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/druva/mycompany/ https://www.druva.com/about/ https://www.druva.com/blog/ "Druva Phoenix" is a unified server backup and archival built on Druva’s secure, enterprise-trusted, and high-performance cloud platform. With Phoenix, data can be stored indefinitely with limitless snapshots and flexible retention policies, while at the same time significantly lowering your backup costs. Druva takes a multilayered approach to secure data that is unmatched in the industry – enabling organizations to address both their data security and data privacy requirements. As a Principal Program Manager, you would be responsible for planning and coordinating with multiple groups to deliver differentiated business value to our customers via enterprise-class product releases at a regular & frequent cadence. A key leadership role within the Engineering organization, the Program Manager is responsible for facilitating deliverables across multiple Scrum teams, adhering to the required criteria for functionality & quality. Key skills

• Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles/practices. The ability to blend them together in the right proportions that are best suited to achieve optimal results.
• A proven track record of successfully implementing software development projects using Agile principles including 5+ years of experience as a Program Manager managing large, complex projects in a highly tech-savvy environment with multi-functional teams.
• Prior experience with Scrum and other Agile frameworks with enterprise-level application development projects.
• Experience overseeing multi-function project teams with at least 50+ team members including Developers and QA personnel.
• Good level of technical background to provide credible leadership to development teams and to be able to objectively evaluate complex projects/programs.
• Very effective interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating and facilitating.
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands.
• Excellent communications skills and experience interacting with both business and other cross-functional stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong ability to multitask, and manage shifting priorities/demands.
• Knowledge & experience using relevant tools: JIRA, Confluence, EazyBI, G-Suite

• Program management experience with products in the areas of Cloud/SaaS (preferred) services, Data protection.
• Creative approach to problem-solving with the ability to focus on details while maintaining the “big picture” view.
• The attitude of empowerment and transparency.
• Experience in vendor engagement & managing outsourced projects, including relevant processes & documents like MSA, SOW, etc.
• Agile certification - PMI-ACP, SAFe or equivalent preferred.

• Owns complete planning and delivery of releases at a regular cadence of one or more complex products.
• Work with product management, cross-functional leads, and stakeholders to define and agree objectives/scope of new programs/releases.
• Facilitate cross-team coordination to plan the dependencies apart from tracking/resolving those. Facilitate Scrum of Scrum to manage dependencies in the program, maintaining focus on the overall objectives.
• Helps resolve blockers to keep the teams focused on building and delivering value to customers.
• Interfaces with stakeholders for help, if any, needed for impediments and people issues.
• Support the Product Owner in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and helping to implement an effective system of program governance.
• Assist in planning/defining incremental deliverables.
• Define and track metrics for measuring the health of product delivery and work with stakeholders to improve these.
• Periodically radiates information on overall program progress throughout its life cycle.
• Continuously does risk assessment & identifies mitigation and contingency plans to ensure good predictability.
• Coordinates with cross-functional teams for productization or launch aspects such as Legal, Licensing, Documentation, Support etc.
• Work with other Program Managers and Scrum Masters to further enhance and continuously improve the application of Agile principles and Scrum in the organization.
• Bridge the gaps in the SDLC process followed in the organization and update the SDLC Framework to reduce risks and ensure program and project investments are realized within their constraints
• Conduct training sessions across Engineering and cross-functional teams to educate on Agile principles, frameworks, estimation techniques, SDLC, etc.
• Advocate for modern agile software development and organizational practices, such as XP, CI/CD, DevOps, TDD, etc.
• Assist in vendor management for outsourcing/contracting projects (identification, selection, negotiation, contract, engagement, onboarding, etc.)

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience
• Experience in enterprise software development, in which significant (5+) years in Agile program management (preferably in a product-based organization)