Senior Technical Program Manager, Office Builds and IT Infrastructure
at Flexport
Bellevue, San Francisco, Washington DC, United States
About Flexport:
At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.
The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us.
The Opportunity
Flexport’s IT organization is looking for a passionate, results oriented Infrastructure Technical Program Manager with solid technology understanding. In this role you will manage the delivery of complex IT Office and Warehouse Infrastructure projects in a diverse environment with multiple stakeholders and multiple resource pools. You will also project manage various IT functions/processes throughout the business.
You must be able to initiate and manage programs and dependencies via solid understanding of the IT objectives and the related Network and IT platform technologies, communicate clearly among stakeholders and team members, and have a consistent track record of delivery. You are proactive in creating program vision and roadmap, developing and following through on project plans, identifying program/project headwinds, facilitating resolutions, and can handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. You are able to curate and present relevant data and articulate extremely complex technical dependencies to facilitate informed decision making during escalations.
You should have
- 8+ years of project management experience leading information technology projects, including requesting / securing approval to start projects through project closeout
- 5+ years of experience of implementing technology solutions in a start up environment
- Mastery of both theoretical and practical aspects of project management including tools and techniques (e.g., project planning, risk/issue management, governance, cost/benefit analysis, project change controls)
- Developing and managing budgets across multiple projects
- Vendor management
- Ability to facilitate working sessions with large, cross-functional teams (business, clinical, technical)
- Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently
- Experience mentoring junior staff
- Able to intelligently and succinctly articulate the significance of the challenges we are facing, and understands how projects within the subportfolio will alleviate these issues
- Exceptional and adaptive written and oral communication skills, including ability to communicate effectively with all levels of personnel from Executive level to frontline staff
- Creative, self-confident, and flexible
What you’ll need:
- Ability to travel throughout the US, Europe and APAC as needed.
- Understanding of physical IT Infrastructure (power and cooling requirements, copper and fiber cabling, LAN/WAN connectivity, wireless access points, access switches, firewalls)
- Understanding of AV devices and infrastructure (Poly, Neat, Logitech, Zoom, Teams, Meet)
- Understanding of the interdependencies between construction activities and different IT systems and solutions
- Ability to identify the different stakeholders of the internal IT teams and engage them in timely manner during the design and implementation of construction projects (new office and warehouse builds)
- Ability to understand discussions during OAC coordination meetings and identify the impact of other trades on IT infrastructure.
- Ability to coordinate with other trades during design and implementation of the IT infrastructure.
- Ability to manage multiple IT infrastructure projects during construction.
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