We inspire purpose-filled living that brings beauty and quality to the modern home. Together, we achieve. Associates across our business drive results, innovate, and inspire. Drawn together by our shared values and passion for our customers and our brands, we deliver home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced, and bring timeless style and function to people’s homes. From the day we opened our first store in Chicago in 1962 to the digital innovations that engage millions of customers today, our iconic brand is over 60 years in the making—and our story is still unfolding.

We’re here for it. We think you should be too. We’re looking for a driven professional with an inclusive mindset to join our team as a Senior Program Manager, Program Practice Enablement.

The Senior Program Manager Practice Enablement for Technology is responsible for developing program and agile practices, processes and tools to enable managing and delivering multiple medium to large programs with medium to high complexity within the Technology Portfolio.  This role partners closely with fellow program management and agile leaders within the Program Management Practice and Technology Portfolio Management team.  The role also partners closely with leaders across Product Management, Engineering and the Business teams in a highly collaborative, exciting, and fast paced atmosphere. Our program management roles focus on leading coordination and management activities of the program, program planning activities, and governance and monitoring activities.  This role also helps to develop processes and tools for managing and overseeing program budgeting and forecasting as well as helps manage vendors and third parties within our programs.  Successful Senior Program Managers exhibit strong team leadership and communication skills, strong planning and organization skills, and significant experience driving collaboration and alignment across teams.

• This position is fully remote
• This role is an Individual Contributor position 

A day in the life as a Senior Program Manager, Program Practice Enablement…

• Initiate and lead multiple, concurrent critical Technology program and program work streams as part of company-wide strategic priorities.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering and Business Teams to clearly define program objectives, program scope, and target benefits.
• Plan, manage, and monitor the program activities within the program lifecycle from beginning to end and own regular ongoing progress monitoring processes within the portfolio.
• Lead program planning activities across multiple technology teams, third parties, and stakeholder groups including building schedules and plans to support program objectives and milestones.
• Define and implement appropriate ongoing Program Governance (reporting, monitoring, stakeholder engagement, communication and escalations) and issue and risk management process.
• Identify and manage cross team dependencies through appropriate portfolio planning and delivery processes.
• Incorporate into the program, and coach teams as appropriate on applying agile techniques and continuous improvement practices.  Assist in program and agile tool identification, management and implementation.
• Support portfolio level planning and monitoring processes for relevant programs and teams.
• Coordinate with fellow program leaders to define and manage the program budget, and continuously update and manage the program financial forecast, to enable target program benefits.
• Facilitate key program and team events and retrospectives to effectively and efficiently achieve the program and/or team objectives while continuously building in learning through experience.
• Contribute to the creation and definition of program management and agile delivery best practices.
• Supports the creation and delivery of program management and agile training content.

What you’ll bring to the table… 

• Strong functional experience in relevant retail and relevant functional areas.
• Strong experience implementing and managing SaaS based solutions either as a software provider or as a client.
• Proficient functional knowledge of modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies
• Ability to develop strong business acumen across multiple business functions.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully develop and lead projects according to project management best practices.
• Experience communicating program progress, risks and issues to senior leaders.
• Leadership ability to work with senior Technology and Business management to identify and mitigate risks and identify opportunities.
• Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, with a strong problem-solving mindset.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Proven ability to work and lead cross functionally.
• Complete understanding of agile processes such as Scrum, XP and Kanban.

We’d love to hear from you if you have… 

• 10+ years experience in relevant Technology field
• 5+ years experience in complex projects/project management
• Project Management and Scrum certifications preferred
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and hybrid agile program management experience/training preferred
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
• Experience with Jira, Smartsheet, and Google Business Suite preferred
• Experience collaborating with distributed teams across different time zones

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Minimum Starting Rate: $135,000.00 Annually

Up to: $170,000.00 Annually

Pay ranges will be adjusted upward as needed to comply with applicable state and local law. In addition to your salary, based on your role, associates may be eligible for other compensation including bonuses, sales incentives, and long term incentives.