Sr Advisor, Engineering Services
Job Summary
What Youll Do
Strategic Program Leadership
- Lead end-to-end delivery of large complex strategic programs across teams functions and geographies.
- Define program strategy execution plans governance success metrics and operating mechanisms.
- Adapt programs to business technology and organizational changes while maintaining delivery focus.
Executive Stakeholder Partnership
- Partner with senior Engineering Product Operations and business stakeholders to align objectives and priorities.
- Lead stakeholder meetings governance reviews and executive forums to drive decisions and accountability.
- Create executive-ready dashboards KPIs and reporting for health progress risks and outcomes.
Cross-Functional & Global Collaboration
- Drive alignment across distributed teams on dependencies decisions milestones and commitments.
- Build scalable processes governance and operating rhythms to improve efficiency and transparency.
- Mentor teams or peers on program management best practices where applicable.
Risk Dependency & Issue Management
- Identify risks dependencies and systemic issues then drive mitigation plans with stakeholders.
Engineering Partnership & Tooling
- Partner with engineering teams through the SDLC including trade-offs release planning and execution challenges.
- Use Jira or equivalent tools for planning execution tracking reporting and cross-team visibility.
What You Bring
- 10 years of professional experience including 5 years in program management in software or SaaS.
- Proven leadership of large complex multi-team programs in distributed cross-functional organizations.
- Software industry background preferably B2B SaaS with experience embedded in engineering delivery teams.
- Program Manager or Scrum Master experience with strong SDLC trade-off and release practice knowledge.
- Executive presence strong communication and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Hands-on proficiency with Jira or equivalent program management tools.
- Deep experience with Agile frameworks such as Scrum Kanban or scaled Agile.
Even Better If You Have
- Experience in GRC risk management compliance or enterprise SaaS platforms.
- Track record building or scaling PM practices governance or delivery frameworks.
- CSM PSM I Kanban Systems Design or PMP certification.
- Experience coaching or mentoring junior program managers or team members on PM practices.
- Prior senior-level cross-geography execution across US and India time zones.
Archer is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Archer are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion national origin sex (including pregnancy) age disability sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression marital civil union or domestic partnership status protected veteran status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. Archer will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training. All Archer employees are expected to support this policy and contribute to an environment of equal opportunity.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Archer is designing and developing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for use in urban air mobility networks. Archer’s mission is to unlock the skies, freeing everyone to reimagine how they move and spend time. Archer's team is based in Santa Clara, CA.