Program Manager

Description

Gigamon, recently certified as a Great Place to Work, helps the world's leading organizations run fast, stay secure and innovate. We provide the industry's first elastic visibility and analytics fabric, which closes the cloud visibility gap by enabling cloud tools to see the network and network tools to see the cloud. With visibility across their hybrid cloud network, organizations can improve customer experience, eliminate security blind spots, and reduce cost and complexity. Gigamon has been awarded over 90 technology patents and enjoys world-class customer satisfaction with over 4,000 organizations, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of governments and educational organizations worldwide.

Gigamon is looking for a skilled and collaborative Program Manager to join the Global Program Office and contribute to our growth journey. The ideal candidate is business minded, flexible, highly organized, and a problem solver who can quickly grasp business needs and issues and be comfortable presenting to the executive management team.

You are responsible for developing, monitoring, and executing the initiative/program per scope, schedule, and budget. You can lead complex simultaneous projects and develop recovery strategies for those that deviate from their plan.

What you'll do:

• You will design, build and maintain the project plan, including scope, schedule, and risk management.
• Practice effective project cost accounting to both forecast budget and manage costs
• Lead the gathering of project requirements and scope holistically across multiple business functions and optimize per the schedule and budget constraints
• Monitor progress in planning and designing a recovery strategy if the project deviates from the baseline plan
• Identify and establish partnerships with stakeholders to build support, secure sponsorship, and ensure alignment for program outcomes.
• Evaluate program progress and results against program objectives, and create or re-engineer processes, tools, and structure to improve productivity and overall program outcomes.
• Communicate and manage the impact to avoid surprises
• Design and deliver Executive-level presentations to support governance of critical and strategic projects
• Define and lead effective program meetings to communicate status and coordinate efforts

What you've done:

• 10 years of strong Program Management experience in GTM, Product, Marketing, or related field

• Must have a minimum of 8-10 years of product, project, or program management experience leading complex programs/initiatives
• Expertise in the use of standard tools for program management
• Bachelor's degree with 10+ years experience equivalent work experience managing projects

Who you are:

• Ability to drive communications to cross-functional teams consistently and effectively across written, verbal, and presentation formats to a variety of audiences, from project team members to Executives
• Proven ability to lead and think strategically and tactically and to build consensus to make programs successful
• Excellent communications and technical presentation skills

• Intellectually curious to understand strategic concepts and translate them to program risks and benefits and identify cross-functional dependencies
• Should be able to deal well with rapid changes and feel comfortable navigating uncertain/ambiguous situations

We are committed to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive Gigamon. As an equal opportunity employer, all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, and/or local law.

Gigamon fosters a business culture dedicated to equitable hiring. If your experience and skills closely match our job description but may not necessarily fulfill all requirements, please still apply. Gigamon is on a continued mission to grow and scale an innovative organization. We believe this is best achieved by hiring, celebrating, and respecting people with diverse backgrounds, skills, perspectives, and experiences.

The base salary compensation range targeted for this role based out of Gigamon's Santa Clara, CA, Headquarters office is $123,000 - $160,000, with an opportunity to earn an annual bonus or commission (subject to terms and conditions of the plan). This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the Company's compensation practices.

Employees in this position are eligible to participate in the Company's standard employee benefit programs, which currently include health insurance, health savings accounts, life, AD&D, disability, 401(k) plan with company matching contributions, paid time off (holidays, vacation, and sick), tuition reimbursement, employee assistance program (EAP), business travel accident insurance, employee discounts, and employee referral program. Additionally, employees in this position are eligible to participate in the Profit Interest Units plan.

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We are committed to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive Gigamon. As an equal opportunity employer, all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, and/or local law.

Gigamon fosters a business culture dedicated to equitable hiring. If your experience and skills closely match our job description but may not necessarily fulfill all requirements, please still apply. Gigamon is on a continued mission to grow and scale an innovative organization. We believe this is best achieved by hiring, celebrating, and respecting people with diverse backgrounds, skills, perspectives, and experiences.

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