Program Director

Company: ForgeRock
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: January 15, 2021

Job Description:

In today's highly connected digital world, understanding, managing and securing the identity of individuals and things is essential to safety and success of both businesses and their customers. Billions of people connect from anywhere, use a wide variety of devices and expect a seamless yet secure experience. The ForgeRock mission is to provide the most simple and comprehensive Identity and Access Management Platform--to help our customers deepen their relationships with their consumers and improve the productivity and connectivity of their employees and partners. Our identity solution enables great digital experiences and is embedded with a rich set of security, privacy and consent features. We--deliver our platform through both cloud services and on-premises software.-- Our customers are some of the biggest companies, organizations, and even countries in the world. On any given day, it's likely that the ForgeRock Identity Platform helped keep your data safe, gave you access to stuff, and supported trusted relationships between you, companies and the devices you were using. ForgeRock is headquartered in San Francisco, but we are a global company with offices in the following cities: Vancouver, WA; Austin, TX; Munich, Germany; London & Bristol, UK; Grenoble & Paris, FR; Oslo, NO; Singapore and Sydney, Australia. Please read more about us at--forgerock.com --or follow ForgeRock on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/forgerock . The Role: The role of Program Director is to deliver cross functional programs. This team member will be responsible to deliver best in class solutions that are optimized for the business model. Partnering with the stakeholders, the Program Director is able to influence the program direction while transitioning the organization. The Program Director is also responsible to manage the programs leveraging the release model while looking for areas of improvement. This role also includes providing both strategic direction and operational support for programs. The ideal candidate must be able to foster partnerships within the business to enhance their "value-add" capabilities and develop techniques to affect change in the business. Responsibilities:

• Deliver programs on time and budget with highest quality
• Continually extend the value add of the role within the organization
• Affect positive change to the organization through the delivery of the programs
• Develop engagement model with business to deliver highest value add for the project/program
• In partnership with the business, design and evolve the release model
• Coach, mentor and develop team members by actively monitoring and optimizing the overall results and effectiveness of programs
• Cultivate and drive a culture of innovation and effective problem solving
• Drive cross functional project launches in particular our new cloud offering
• Be a trusted advisor to both internal and external business partners/stakeholders
• Leverage business acumen to streamline the way we do business, or affecting change in new business models. Required Skills & Qualifications:
  • Proven business leader with demonstrable experience executing successfully on implementing new business capabilities
  • Proven team management experience, with effective influencing skills
  • Excellent communication at--all levels of the organization
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
  • Broad understanding of business models and functions within an organization - ability to connect process flows looking for gaps and opportunities
  • Ability to drive change within an organization
  • Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
  • Strategic thinker
  • Ability to adapt work and approach to changing situations
  • Multiple years of managing highly complex programs
  • Prior experience launching programs across an organization - global, functional dimensions
  • Proven delivery of best practices for managing programs across a broad organization
  • Hands on experience within multiple functions of an organization
  • Advanced knowledge of MS Office, Word, Excel, Power Point, Project
  • Expert knowledge of project management tools and techniques. Scope, schedule fidelity, linking dependencies
  • Solid documentation skills for meeting minutes, presentations, and project information.
  • Expert Project Management applications: MS Project, Visio, JIRA, Kanban
  • Perform business financial assessment (NPV, IRR, Pay-Back)
  • Resource allocation optimization assessment
  • Risk management and migration techniques
  • Travel as business needs require
  • Ability to protect all forms of confidential and proprietary business information, and to maintain the highest standards of privacy and security Life at ForgeRock: We believe in and facilitate a flexible, collaborative work environment. We've grown enormously, but remain true to the innovative, can-do startup values that got us here. Most important of all, we keep hiring talented, smart, fun, and genuinely nice people because that's who we want to succeed with every day. Below are just a few of the great things we have to offer at ForgeRock:
    • A great team of smart, fun and genuinely nice individuals.
    • Awesome company culture focused around providing a flexible and collaborative work environment
    • Regular office bonding events, from lunches and happy hours to group offsites and hack-days
    • Well-stocked fridges, whether you're hungry or thirsty
    • Competitive benefits and perks
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