Senior Staff Program Manager

<div class="content-intro"><p>From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We’re looking for a Senior Staff Program Manager for our Central Engineering Operations team to help us reach our goals and help our Engineering team be the best that it can be! </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The mission for the Senior Staff Program Manager, Engineering Operations, is to maintain and accelerate the highest level of execution excellence of Fivetran engineering and RD. Our Engineering organization is grouped into a number of functional global groups that are utilizing various processes, systems, tools, and KPIs in order to jointly deliver best-in-class data pipelines and drive innovation.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The role focuses on increasing engineering and RD efficiency and effectiveness in delivering our strategic objectives by streamlining engineering processes and leading major initiatives such as process and efficiency improvement projects and programs.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">As the majority of the processes belong to the software development industry, the role assumes you have broad experience in software development, leading multiple programs, and shipping software from start to finish. You have worked closely with cross-functional teams with design, research, product, and engineering. Preferably, you work at a tech company and are heavily involved in engineering operations, understanding how engineering and RD processes work under the hood and how to take them to the next level, leveraging data-driven approaches.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We want you to bring your passion for problem-solving, experience in the tech world, and the drive to help us get to the next level, and have some fun along the way.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This is a full-time position based out of our Oakland, CA office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ensure the operations and strategy execution work seamlessly and effectively as well as streamline engineering processes so they are simple, value-oriented and scalable.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Oversee the operations of several software engineering global groups with a particular focus on increasing the efficiency, stability and effectiveness in the delivery of their strategic objectives. </span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Act as a strategic partner for the global group leaders in regards to long-term vision, planning (quarterly and annual), and execution as well in establishing<strong> </strong>and tracking engineering OKRs and KPIs. All this with consistent alignment with engineering-wide policies and practices.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lead and manage enterprise-wide process enhancements aiming to set up or improve engineering and cross-departmental processes and be responsible for the transition into operational stat ... (truncated, view full listing at source)