Our Company
We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data.
If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.
The team
We are seeking a dynamic, motivated, and experienced cross-functional program manager to lead product launches and program initiatives as part of the Product organization. This person will play a pivotal role in the overall success of our product development and launches by providing program management oversight and leadership across functional teams. The successful candidate will work with functional team members, advise the teams on project tasks, timelines, deliverables, and operations, and communicate the program status, issues, results, and business impact to senior management. The candidate must be passionate about delivering high-quality results in a dynamic environment, and will also maintain awareness of industry trends, business conditions, and internal processes and practices to ensure success of programs.
The role
Provide cross functional leadership and manage large scale programs or multiple complex projects that affect business long-term goals and objectives in a matrixed environment
• Actively build consensus across stakeholders to enable coordinated forward progress.
• Develop, define, and program plans, lead execution of programs. Oversee program goals and prioritization setting.
• Evaluate and recommend techniques and practices that ensure goal achievement. Resolve complex problems, anticipates change, and redirect effort as necessary.
• Communicate program status, program readiness, and business issues and risks across organization and to management, including senior management and executives.
• Manage and lead cross-functional team (PM, engineering, Marketing, Finance, Legal, Support, Services, etc.) in the preparation, tracking of GTM deliverables and milestones. Proactively identifying risks to meeting target launch dates, and developing/driving mitigation plans and escalating to senior leadership as needed
• In close collaboration with Product Marketing, Marketing, Finance, Competitive Intelligence, facilitate and coordinate teams in development and preparation for product gate reviews and pricing governance reviews.
What you’ll bring
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, marketing, or related field
• 10+ years of relevant work experience
• Proven success managing complex programs in a large organization.
• Exemplary communications skills (both written and verbal) proven ability to influence and drive change.
• Positive outlook with desire for continuous learning and the ability to drive business change in an ever changing, dynamic environment.
• Team leadership, mentoring and coaching skills.
• Skilled in PowerPoint, Excel and Word, Project management certification desired not required
About us
We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.
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Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
