Position: Senior Program/People Manager
Company: Newfire Global Partners
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**You Perfectly Match If you have:**
- Experience in project management (or/and SM experience);
- Deep understanding of SDLC/PDLC;
- Experience with Jira, Confluence or similar;
- Understanding of Agile philosophy and experience with frameworks (Scrum/Kanban) and scaled frameworks (SAFe, Less, Nexus);
- English level: Upper-intermediate or higher.

**Nice to have: ** 
- Experience in Product management;
- Experience in customer success management;
- Technical background;

**Your day-to-day activities: **
- Managing the account of 60+ people (Scrum Masters, Architects, Tech Leads, DevOps, Developers, QAs);
- Stakeholders Management on client side (CTO, CPO, VP of Engineering, - - Engineering Leaders, Scrum Masters);
- Leading the People Management process (as a team with HR, EM, SM): one-on-one meetings, managing employees retention risks, maintaining high motivation, team building etc;
-Identifying risks and issues, working on the mitigation strategies and communicate to stakeholders;
- Coaching of individual team members and teams to make sure constant development;
- Setting clear goals to individuals, helping with impediments;
- Running of onboarding, off-boarding processes, Interviewing of new candidates;
- Providing regular feedbacks to team members (3-month, half-year, yearly);
- Monitoring and managing team’s dynamics. During the “turbulence” help the teams to find the constructive ways to deal with the root-causes;
- Auditing SDLC, Scrum process with further communication of discovered gaps to stakeholders on client side;
- Helping engineering leaders from client side with observations, team management, initiatives, stimulation, communication on Newfire Team;
- Providing Engineering Manager with weekly and monthly status reports;