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The Program Manager, Release & Value Delivery, Q2C manages the integrated Q2C release roadmap to align Feature Managers, Engineering, and business partners on priorities, sequencing, and capacity. This role involves managing integrated release scope, milestones, change control, and governance across participating workstreams while assessing impacts on timing and readiness. Key responsibilities include integrating business validation, User Acceptance Testing, defect closure, vendor readiness, and hypercare activities into a single view. The position requires connecting technology investments to measurable business outcomes, productivity improvements, or savings. Candidates must possess a Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or a related field and experience in program management, process improvement, or large-scale business transformation. Core competencies include managing cross-functional programs, identifying risks, and communicating program health to senior stakeholders within a common transformation delivery lifecycle.
Own the integrated Q2C release roadmap, including timing, dependencies, expected value, and operational impacts.
Align Feature Managers, Engineering, and business partners on priorities, sequencing, capacity, and trade-offs.
Manage integrated release scope, milestones, change control, and governance across all participating workstreams.
Integrate business validation, UAT, defect closure, and operational readiness into a single readiness view.
Drive accountable owners to complete cutover, deployment, stabilization, and hypercare activities with speed and quality.
Connect business priorities to delivered capabilities and ensure validated benefits are recorded in appropriate systems.
Provide a concise, integrated view of release health, risks, and decision requirements to senior leaders.
Escalate unresolved barriers with clear impacts, trade-offs, and specific recommendations for governance forums.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 4+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR equivalent experience.
Experience managing large-scale business transformation, technology-enabled transformation, release management, or operational change programs.
Experience partnering closely with Engineering, product, operations, service delivery, and vendor organizations.
Experience with UAT, quality management, operational readiness, deployment, cutover, hypercare, and post-production stabilization.
Experience connecting technology or process investments to measurable business outcomes, productivity improvements, or savings.
Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional programs involving multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and competing priorities.
Experience developing and managing integrated roadmaps and release plans from planning through implementation, hypercare, and transition.
Analytical skills with the ability to use data and evidence to support prioritization, readiness, governance, and value-delivery decisions.
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