Director, Program Delivery

This is a Full Time Job

Overview & Responsibilities

The Paramount Technology department supports our global content company through the delivery of a high-quality viewing experience, system infrastructure support, and creating innovative ways for our employees to collaborate. If you are interested in a strategy that has growth, transformation, and ongoing innovation where you can help “reinvent the broadcasting wheel” Paramount Tech has a role for you

Primary Responsibilities:

Paramount Tech is hiring a Director to play a driving role in modernizing Paramount Global’s Media Supply Chain, ensuring alignment with corporate operating goals. The Director will focus on 2-3 key pillars in the Media Supply Chain. The pillar-based responsibilities will include planning, program delivery, status reporting, and other common program activities in partnership with the operations, product, and engineering teams. One key success factor in this role is the ability to collaborate effectively and connect the dots across teams with many interrelated dependencies and competing priorities and driving with a content and outcomes-oriented mindset. Other responsibilities will include but are not limited to supporting the recalibration of the teams' Agile practices towards a Scaled Agile framework (SAFe).

 

Basic Qualifications:

• 7 years of experience in program/project management and/or related Operational/Technical experience in a well-established, high-performing technology development environment, leading complex and large-scale tech and/or transformation programs, leveraging both Agile (or variations thereof) and Waterfall best practices.

• Experience in a Leadership capacity, tightly aligning with Product, Engineering, and Operations leads to deliver successful products and services. Establishes rapport and close alignment across the teams to achieve harmony and symbiosis.

• Experience managing Program Managers and Scrum Masters overseeing large, complex programs, with auditing and reporting oversight.

Additional Qualifications:

Domain and Technical Abilities

• Well-versed in Agile (preferably SAFe) best practices, preferably across two or more large multi-year programs, preferably in the digital transformation and/or Media Supply Chain space

• Ability to implement, manage, and refine PMO ways of working and collaborating with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Customer teams following both Agile and Waterfall methodologies

• Experience with change management associated with refining teams’ ways of working as part of recommending and operationalizing best practices, ideally in the digital transformation and/or Media Supply Chain space

• Ticks and ties the spirit of objects to the interdependent parts of the supply chain to help ensure maximum effectiveness in prioritization, decision making, and alignment

• Ability to understand technologies applicable to assigned product or service area and facilitate resolution of technical needs as they arise

• Consulting experience is a plus

Leadership

• Frequently interact with a diverse group of executives, project managers, technology, and business sponsors to establish and align on achieving business outcomes

• Exhibits mastery of methods and techniques to effectively and seamlessly communicate status updates within teams, across teams, and Leadership

• Mastery of prioritization across people, products and projects by helping teams align on where to focus and deliver the most value

• Strong written and verbal communications, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation skills

• Focuses on removing Impediments/blockers and improving Delivery results

Program Management Skills

• Strong knowledge of program/project agile frameworks and delivery lifecycle practices

• Excellence and ownership in program/project delivery for multiple strategic priority initiatives

• Facilitate the creatio