Program Manager, Enterprise Business Systems

About Acquia

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia has been named a top software company by The Software Report, rated a leader by the analyst community, and named a top place to work by the Boston Globe and the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

Position Overview

The Acquia Enterprise Integrations Team, one of the teams in the Enterprise Business Systems organization, builds, maintains, and improves internal system integrations and tools. The  software engineers on the team primarily build applications that connect the systems that help make Acquia run.

We are looking to add a Program Manager to our team to help guide our ship and to serve as the central point of contact for our applications. In this role you will help define our roadmap and direct us down the right path. You will be responsible for gathering requirements from stakeholders, identifying risks, determining what will be actioned and what will not be actioned, prioritizing and scheduling work, coordinating activities, communicating to stakeholders and team members, and managing projects to on-time completion. You will report directly to the Senior Director of Enterprise Business Systems and work closely with the Enterprise Integrations team of engineers that are distributed globally.

Responsibilities

• Meeting with key internal stakeholders, gathering requirements, prioritizing work and  determining the roadmap of the Enterprise Integrations Team
• Ensuring that project requests align with organizational goals and objectives
• Driving projects to on-time completion
• Communicating with management, stakeholders and the engineering team
• Managing the product backlog
• Producing Scrum artifacts 
• Scheduling and leading stakeholder meetings, daily standups, sprint planning sessions, sprint demonstrations, and sprint retrospectives

Must Have Skills & Traits

• Strong project management skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and work in a team environment
• Good communication skills, both verbal (English) and written
• Ability to foresee potential problems and to offer solutions
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to multitask
• Good negotiation skills and the ability to say “no” in a constructive fashion
• Results oriented, drive to succeed
• Original thinker, is willing to try new things
• Proactive, does not wait to be told what to do, seeks out opportunities
• Ability to hit the ground running and adjust quickly  
• Extremely collaborative and willing to assist teammates on any issue
• Working knowledge of Agile methodology

Nice To Have

• Experience with Atlassian Tool Set (Confluence, Jira)
• Experience with Google Tool Set (Docs, Sheets, Slides)
• Comfortable using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools

This job is not

• You will not be meeting with external customers or clients
• You will not have any direct reports (will not be managing people)

We are an organization that embraces innovation and the potential of AI to enhance our processes and improve our work. We are always looking for individuals who are open to learning new technologies and collaborating with AI tools to achieve our goals.

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more!

Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.