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About the Role

Zebra's Sr Program Managers are responsible for the successful launch of Zebra’s products and solutions by leading cross-functional teams to achieve Zebra’s goals. You will collect, interpret, and deliver feedback and status, hold the core team accountable for deliverables, and delegate assignments while staying on schedule, cost, and budget.

Responsibilities

• Acts independently to generate and drive the project plan for programs of moderate to significant scope, including novel products or services.
• May lead multiple complex programs simultaneously or manage parts of a larger overarching program.
• Uses established industry tools, approaches, methodologies, and templates to build, document, and communicate the project plan effectively to the team.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders to nominate and select core team members.
• Directs the work of the project team, coordinating members from a wide range of disciplines including engineering, product management, marketing, and operations.
• Establishes, manages, and independently optimizes program timelines and budgets with minimal management oversight, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
• Organizes cross-functional activities to ensure program completion on schedule and within budget constraints.
• Owns regular meeting coordination, facilitation, and comprehensive documentation of progress.
• Interprets inputs from the project team to assemble a consolidated view of program status.
• Provides tailored, concise status updates to senior management and owns ensuring alignment from key leaders on milestone achievements before advancing the program.
• Demonstrates the ability to see cross-functional impacts of decisions.
• Balances scope, schedule, and budget trade-offs to adjust the project with minimal business impact, assuming personal accountability for the program's success against strategic objectives.
• Manages program deliverables independently.
• Proactively anticipates and personally addresses moderate to significant obstacles, actively engaging additional resources or escalating to senior management only to resolve highly complex roadblocks.
• Demonstrates intermediate to advanced application of Program Management methodologies, including active use of PMI PMBOK concepts and terminology.
• Effectively utilizes PM tools to design staffing plans, evaluate task dependencies, and develop exhaustive risk management plans.
• Demonstrates a deep understanding of end-to-end development processes and product launch scope, actively supporting early-stage go-to-market activities and transitions to marketing.
• May coach, mentor, or act as an escalation point for Level 1 or Level 2 Program Managers.
• Operates with very limited supervision from management, which is expected only when navigating exceptionally complex or unprecedented problems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of experience
• Intermediate to advanced communication and facilitation skills. Formal training preferred
• Intermediate to advanced presentation skills.
• Demonstrated comfort in presenting to mid to senior level cross functional audiences.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of advanced concepts with program management approaches, tools and methodologies. PMP certification preferred.
• Intermediate to advanced skills in PC based documentation tools including MS Office and MS Project
• Intermediate to advanced skills in delegation and follow up
• Demonstrated working knowledge / experience of technical business unit assigned to (Hardware, Software, Services, etc.)

Skills

• Program Management
• Communication
• Facilitation
• Presentation
• MS Office
• MS Project
• Delegation
• Follow up

Work Type

• Hybrid work

Experience Level

• 5+ years of experience
• Sr Program Manager

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

• $108,960.00 - $163,440.00 Annual
• Target performance-based annual cash incentive equal to 12% of base pay

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Wellness
• Inclusion networks
• Continued learning and development offerings
• Community service days
• Traditional insurances
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program
• Paid time off
• Hybrid work
• Adaptable hours
• Summer Flex Fridays
• Focus Fridays
• Annual companywide well-being day

About the Company

• At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working.
• United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges.
• Being part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected.
• Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose.
• Here you are part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.
• You’ll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about—locally and globally.
• Come make an impact every day at Zebra.

Equal Opportunity

• Zebra is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability and protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
• If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance in applying for a position, please contact us at workplace.accommodations@zebra.com.
• We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
• Please contact us to request accommodation at workplace.accommodations@zebra.com .