Senior Program Manager, Engineering - Supporting SaaS Security (Remote) (crowdstrike)

Job Description

​​#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to the customer to join us in shaping the future of cybersecurity. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight.

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 SaaS Security team whose mission is to enrich Falcon Cloud Security by helping make cloud environments and applications secure and resilient.

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.

What You'll Do:

• Partnering and direct facilitation with teams at all levels; from deeply engaged 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.

• Flexibility working across timezones to help coordinate and follow up on work (from Israel to the West Coast, US).

• Israel candidates will be expected to be in office 2-3 times a week to meet with the team/build relationships with the engineers.

• Willingness and ability to travel internationally several times a quarter

• Israel candidates will only be expected to travel when conditions are considered by all parties to be safe and stable.

• UK candidates can expect travel to European and/or US Locations.

What You'll Need:

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

• 7+ 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 Systems 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, provide teams w/ valuable summations around action items and next steps.

• Full professional proficiency in Hebrew and English (Israel).

• Full professional proficiency in English (UK).

Required In lieu of a cover letter:

In order to highlight what would make you a valuable asset to the CrowdStrike Program Management team, we'd like to know what a day in your "project management" life looks like. More specifically, please tell us about a single project in particular which required your leadership and fortitude to turn the tides of potential disaster. Using an intro paragraph to provide a brief summary of the problem the project was looking to solve and no more than 10 bullet points of "Actions Taken" by you specifically that led to the project's successful outcome.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-first culture

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards with option to participate in ESPP in eligible countries

• Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements

• Physical and mental wellness programs 

• Paid parental leave, including adoption 

• A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities

• Access to CrowdStrike University, LinkedIn Learning and Jhanna

• Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration

• Birthday time-off in your local country

• Work with people who are passionate in our mission and Great Place to Work certified across the globe