Senior Manager, Program Management

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end R&D programs and major initiatives from planning through execution, release, and post-delivery review.
• Own program governance, including roadmap alignment, milestone planning, dependency management, and delivery tracking.
• Drive cross-functional coordination across engineering, architecture, product line management, QA, security, DevOps, and customer-facing teams.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate technical, schedule, and resource risks.
• Manage risks related to integration, security vulnerabilities, compliance gaps, and release readiness.
• Establish and maintain program plans, schedules, and executive-level status reporting.
• Ensure alignment between business objectives, technical architecture, and delivery commitments.
• Act as a trusted partner to senior engineering and product leadership to enable data-driven decision-making.

Requirements

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field (MS preferred).
• 10+ years of experience in project or program management within Product Development or Operations.
• Experience supporting global, multi-site engineering organizations.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and modern engineering practices.
• Exposure to product security, threat modeling, and vulnerability management.
• Experience in telecom, cloud-native platforms, or distributed systems.
• Experience using AI for task assistance and automation.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of AI technologies.
• Experience with global customer delivery and customer operations.

About the Company

Mavenir is the industry's only end-to-end, cloud-native network software provider. We are transforming the way the world connects by building the future of networks through software-based automated networks that run on any cloud. We serve over 250 Communications Service Providers in more than 120 countries.