Sr. Design Program Manager responsible for optimizing design processes for PayPal's Merchant XD team. Leading design operations and managing engineering programs for product development.
About the role
- Software Engineering Programme Manager leading delivery of Dexory’s robotics and data-intelligence programmes. Ensuring high-velocity cadence and collaboration across engineering teams in a dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Orchestrate cross-functional programmes, maintaining clear visibility of dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines.
- Chair twice-weekly 'pit-stop' stand-ups with engineering leads to surface blockers and drive rapid decisions.
- Translate strategic objectives into sprint-based roadmaps, with clearly defined milestones every 2–4 weeks.
- Lead engineering operations metrics and programme visibility, designing comprehensive measurement frameworks that drive from data, to insight, and through to action.
- Own the engineering metrics strategy, establishing key performance indicators for sprint velocity, cycle time, deployment frequency, lead time, and quality metrics to drive operational excellence.
- Design and implement programme performance dashboards that enable data-driven decision making and objective accountability.
- Enable and coach teams to leverage data insights for improved delivery planning, risk identification, and quality outcomes.
- Own 'failure-mode' post-mortems after each deployment cycle, capturing lessons and accelerating root-cause fixes with data-backed analysis.
- Collaborate with teams to design and implement best practice processes and data structures in project management tooling, building new functionality and streamlining workflows.
- Standardise project delivery frameworks (e.g., stage-gate or agile variants).
- Identify process bottlenecks in software integration, sprint execution, and cross-team dependencies, and drive events and ownership to eliminate lead-time.
Requirements
- Proven track record in engineering project or programme management, ideally within robotics, automotive, or high-tech manufacturing.
- Experience working in a fast environment where problems need to be solved quickly.
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies with a focus on continuous improvement and iterative delivery.
Benefits
- Private healthcare via Bupa with 24/7 medical helpline
- Life insurance
- Income protection
- Pension: 4+% employee with option to opt into salary exchange, 5% employer
- Employee Assistance Programme - mental wellbeing, financial and legal advice/support
- 25 days holiday per year + bank holidays
- Full meals onsite in Wallingford
- Fun team events on and offsite, snacks of all kinds in the office
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