Program Manager

About us:

We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

What you'll do:

• Own the planning and execution of complex, cross‑functional programs from initiation to delivery
• Define program scope, objectives, schedules, and success metrics in alignment with business goals
• Coordinate and drive execution across engineering, product, operations, finance, and other stakeholders
• Manage timelines, budgets, risks, dependencies, and resource allocation across multiple projects
• Proactively identify issues, assess impact, and lead mitigation and escalation as needed
• Track progress against milestones and KPIs, ensuring transparent and accurate reporting to leadership
• Facilitate program reviews, decision forums, and stakeholder communications
• Ensure alignment between program deliverables and strategic priorities
• Drive continuous improvement of processes, tools, and execution practices
• Support change management and ensure successful adoption of program outcomes

The day-to-day:

• Planning
• Work with the team and product owner to provide initial work-package estimates.
• Build up the development schedule based on the product owner’s prioritisation and the team’s capacity.
• If needed flag and secure non-core team resource (specialists or overflow resource to meet the objectives).
• Identify risk and opportunities at the individual work-package level
• Coordinate, with the team, the refinement of larger work-packages into executable detailed plans
• Executing
• Facilitate the daily team stand-ups
• Monitor evolution of risks during the execution
• Monitor, and if necessary update, the detailed work-package plan, while ensuring to remain within the agreed scope.
• Help the team by eliminating impediments
• Shield the team from outside pressure
• Ensure resource remains committed and protect the team of over-committing to other parallel requests
• Reporting
• Report to the product owner on weekly progress
• Prepare biweekly planning updates, advertising how the short term roles into the long term.

What you'll need:

• 5+ years of project management / scrum master
• 3+ years of technical engineering background
• Demonstrated experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams through multiple phases of the product development and service life-cycle.
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or similar technical discipline
• Strong oral and written communications skills
• Up to 10% travel
• Swiss Citizenship, EU (27) Citizenship, or Valid Swiss Work Permit

What will help you on the job:

• Familiarity with agile and lean development methodologies
• Background in antenna systems development or advanced electronic design
• Familiarity with JIRA

EEO statement:

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