Associate Director, Program Management

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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📋 Program Manager

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📋 Description

• Lead the successful delivery of complex, multi-year programs that advance CA’s product strategy and organizational goals • Translate vision into clear program outcomes, milestones, timelines, and success measures • Bring clarity and structure to ambiguous situations, helping teams align on priorities and decisions • Strengthen the connection between Product and GTM teams to ensure clear communication, organizational readiness, and cohesive deliverables throughout the product lifecycle • Drive continuous improvement in program management methodologies, tools, and standards across the company • Initiate, define, and socialize program goals in alignment with organizational strategy • Build and manage integrated program plans, ensuring coordination, transparency, and accountability across teams • Lead programs through Discovery, Definition, Development, and Launch • Facilitate phase transitions and checkpoints; align teams on requirements, acceptance criteria, and readiness expectations • Oversee multiple workstreams and balance scope, time, cost, and quality • Identify, manage, and mitigate risks, issues, and interdependencies • Maintain documentation and reporting, including timelines, decision logs, risk registers, and program updates • Drive alignment among Product, Engineering, Content, Design, and GTM teams • Facilitate decision-making and clarify tradeoffs and priorities • Build trusted cross-team relationships and accountability • Partner with Product Marketing, Customer Success, Sales, Professional Learning, and Operations on launch readiness • Ensure downstream teams understand feature intent, customer value, milestone timing, timelines, feature sets, risks, and program decisions • Plan messaging, implementation pathways, training, and customer-facing collateral • Manage and develop a team of program managers through coaching, guidance, and professional growth opportunities • Define and champion program management practices, templates, tools, and metrics • Improve processes, streamline workflows, and increase operational efficiency • Capture and disseminate lessons learned

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of program or project management experience leading large, cross-functional programs • Demonstrated success partnering with GTM functions such as marketing, sales, enablement, and customer-facing teams • Experience managing products or programs through the full development lifecycle—from early discovery through launch and post-launch iteration • Strong understanding of software development processes, content development workflows, or combined hardware/software/content ecosystems • Excellent strategic thinking, analytical skills, and structured problem-solving abilities • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence without authority • Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and bring clarity and stability to complex situations • Strong organizational skills with a bias toward action, follow-through, and accountability • Experience using modern program management tools (e.g., Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, Confluence) • Prior people-management experience leading project or program managers • A collaborative, low ego working style aligned with CA’s mission and values • Experience in EdTech, Educational Publishing, SaaS, or other technology-enabled product environments strongly preferred

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