Job Title: Director/ Sr. Director Program Management Chennai India Hybrid
Job Location: Guindy Chennai Tamil Nadu India
Job Location Type: Hybrid
Job Contract Type: Fulltime
Job Seniority Level: Director
Description
Gigamon recently certified as a Great Place to Work helps the world’s leading organizations run fast stay secure and innovate. Gigamon offers a deep observability pipeline that efficiently deliveres networkderived intelligence and insights to cloud security and observability tools. This eliminates security blind spots optimizes network traffic and reduces tool costs enabling customers to better secure and manage hybrid cloud infrastructure. Gigamon has been awarded over 150 technology patents and enjoys worldclass customer satisfaction with over 4000 organizations including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of governments and educational organizations worldwide.
Gigamon is seeking a Director or Senior Director of Program Management (depending on the person) to lead the program management office (PMO) for the Product and Development organization at Gigamon. This role reports into the Chief Product and Development Officer with broad visibility and high impact. This vital leadership role is responsible for program management in establishing and improving business processes for new product introduction engineering operations product operations quality initiatives and crosscompany program coordination. Peers include the leaders for Development QA Product Management Product Marketing and others. If you love collaborating across an organization that is big enough to do big things but small enough to move quickly enjoy taking a bold leadership role in a fastpaced organization to foster innovation foster trust and respect with a One Team approach to ensure success for our customers and for Gigamon then this is the role for you!
This role is hybrid and requires the candidate to be based either in our headquarters in Santa Clara CA or for an outstanding candidate with global influencing skills to be based in our Chennai India location.
What You’ll Do
Lead crosscompany collaboration: Lead Phase Exit process for major programs in the company
Establish and improve processes to streamline execution achieve faster timetomarket and deliver outstanding value to our customers
Support the crossfunctional organization in measuring Quality especially with Software and Product Quality and help drive continuous improvement programs to maintain the highest quality standard
Shepherd complex programs via the appropriate governance model with a strong executive presence
Manage toplevel programs for the Product & Development organization and represent Product & Development to manage and support crosscompany programs
Lead and manage a team of 7 Program Managers in Santa Clara California and Chennai India providing mentorship guidance and performance feedback while ensuring success of their programs
Support the Chief Product & Development Officer to help align the organization for innovation and execution
Who You Are
Organized and detailedoriented enjoying the way people and processes interact and intersect
While you love details you keep a bigger picture view never “losing the forest for the trees”
Intellectually curious to understand technical concepts and translate them to process improvements program risks and identify crossfunctional dependencies
Coach and mentor who proactively guides and encourages the team to improve helping each team member achieve their own career goals.
Inclusive embracing the One Gigamon culture so that all our people bring their authentic selves to work with confidence and comfort. Committed to building a diverse team and then incorporating those diverse perspectives into decisionmaking.
Have a strong executive presence with ability to understand program risks and drive accountability among different stakeholders. Equally comfortable sitting with a firstline engineering manager for a detailed project checkin as presenting status & risks to the Executive Staff
Ability to exert influence at multiple levels across the company with strong collaboration and persuasion skills gaining support and trust across the organization to achieve agreed upon business outcomes
Excellent communicator with strong written and verbal skills
Foster Trust act with Integrity lean into Innovation embrace an “Employees First” ethos and communicate with Authenticity
What You’ve Done
Successfully established new program management methodologies or upgraded existing processes in a company and seen resulting benefits by way of increased efficiency streamlined and faster execution crossfunctional alignment and increased adoption by customers.
1015 years of experience with major development programs including 5 years in a leadership role specifically for program management
Masters with Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. MBA preferred
Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects and tasks in a fastpaced deadlinedriven environment.
Familiarity with IT Infrastructure & Security space in particular having worked with softwarerich enterprise products that also include a hardware component such as Network Security
Employees in this position are eligible to participate in the Company’s standard employee benefit programs which may include health and other insurances such as life and disability and savings accounts such as a retirement plan with company matching contributions or similar 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 may be eligible to participate in the Profit Interest Units plan.
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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