Technical Program Manager, Core Product & DevXP - Slack

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We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you've come to the right place.At Slack, we are making work simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. Millions of users rely on us every single day to get their work done, and we take this responsibility seriously. We are seeking a Technical Program Manager aligned to Slack's core product, accessibility and developer experience pillars!Core Product is responsible for the core aspects of the Slack experience including messaging, notifications, and search. The Accessibility team builds infrastructure that keeps Slack working well with common assistive technologies and partners with feature teams to craft and build features inclusively. The Developer experience team focuses on improving developer experiences to accelerate velocity across the full development cycle and the entire organization.In this role, you will partner with the accessibility team to ensure that Product, Design, and Engineering meet Slack's accessibility standards. Additionally, you will collaborate with the DevXP team to structure and drive multi-functional programs that accelerate and improve performance, release cadence, and developer velocity at scale.As a TPM, you will drive larger prioritized efforts aligned with engineering and company strategy with a bias toward action, a demeanor of vitality, proactivity, and initiative that results in tangible impact. You thrive when given the chance to create or optimize systems and have a customer-centric mentality.This role will have an unparalleled opportunity to influence the velocity, inclusivity, and trajectory of development within Slack Engineering. If this sounds like a good fit for you, please apply and connect with our team!

What you will be doing:Work closely with your Product Management and Engineering counterparts to develop a strategy, roadmaps, and quarterly goals for mobile, desktop and other platformsEstablish metrics to measure the health of programsBuild and maintain timelines, project plans, and communication artifacts to ensure everyone is operating from the most recent and accurate informationInfluence product and multi-functional teams to find opportunities to drive impactPerform risk management and scope management on projects, and identify blockersProvide timely updates to stakeholders as changes occur with projects within the programs they supportIdentify decisions required to move a project forward, settle decision makers, and ensure decisions are made to drive projects forwardLocate and define new operational excellence improvement opportunitiesLead and facilitate highly valuable multi-functional review meetingsDrive software development processes to enable teams, from sprint planning to retrospectives, with an eye towards optimization and team unityBring clarity to areas of deeper complexityBreak down strategic objectives into tangible programs that teams can successfully execute againstWhat you should have:At least 4 years leading planning, resource management, project lifecycles, and workflows in a dynamic product or engineering organizationExperience leading technical programs in Product Development, Accessibility, Engineering, or a similar functional areaExperience crafting and d iving programs to implement and maintain digital accessibility, inclusive design, or similar cross-functional practicesUnderstanding of the developer efficiency, tools and systems that enable software to be developed and shippedExperience with enterprise software SDLC and Agile/Lean delivery methodologiesStrong communication skills, both verbal and written, with a capability of effectively communicate technical concepts to engineers and identify technical risks.Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, and experience managing activities across multiple teamsProven track record of delivering sophisticated projects and programs with cross-functional teamsSelf-motivated and the ability to empower othersJIRA user experienceBachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or two years of equivalent training, fellowship, or work experienceBonus Points:Experience with Git, Github, SQL, data analytics, Grafana, and real time monitoring softwareExperience working with vendors to run upstream and downstream dependenciesFamiliarity with accessibility standard processes on desktop and mobile and common assistive technologiesAccommodations

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