Job Description

DescriptionGigamon, recently certified as a Great Place to Work, helps the worlds leading organizations run fast, stay secure and innovate. Gigamon offers a deep observability pipeline that efficiently deliveres network-derived intelligence and insights to cloud, security, and observability tools. This eliminates security blind spots, optimizes network traffic, and reduces tool costs, enabling customers to better secure and manage hybrid cloud infrastructure. Gigamon has been awarded over 150 technology patents and enjoys world-class customer satisfaction with over 4,000 organizations, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of governments and educational organizations worldwide.Gigamon is seeking a Director or Senior Director of Program Management (depending on the person) to lead the program management office (PMO) for the Product and Development organization at Gigamon. This role reports into the Chief Product and Development Officer, with broad visibility and high impact. This vital leadership role is responsible for program management in establishing and improving business processes for new product introduction, engineering operations, product operations, quality initiatives, and cross-company program coordination. Peers include the leaders for Development, QA, Product Management, Product Marketing, and others. If you love collaborating across an organization that is big enough to do big things but small enough to move quickly, enjoy taking a bold leadership role in a fast-paced organization to foster innovation, foster trust and respect with a One Team approach to ensure success for our customers and for Gigamon, then this is the role for you!This role is hybrid and requires the candidate to be based either in our headquarters in Santa Clara, CA, or for an outstanding candidate with global influencing skills to be based in our Chennai, India location.What Youll Do:

• Lead cross-company collaboration: Lead Phase Exit process for major programs in the company
• Establish and improve processes to streamline execution, achieve faster time-to-market, and deliver outstanding value to our customers
• Support the cross-functional organization in measuring Quality especially with Software and Product Quality, and help drive continuous improvement programs to maintain the highest quality standard
• Shepherd complex programs via the appropriate governance model with a strong executive presence
• Manage top-level programs for the Product & Development organization, and represent Product & Development to manage and support cross-company programs
• Lead and manage a team of 7+ Program Managers in Santa Clara, California and Chennai, India, providing mentorship, guidance, and performance feedback while ensuring success of their programs
• Support the Chief Product & Development Officer to help align the organization for innovation and execution

Who You Are:

• Organized and detailed-oriented, enjoying the way people and processes interact and intersect
• While you love details, you keep a bigger picture view, never losing the forest for the trees
• Intellectually curious to understand technical concepts and translate them to process improvements, program risks, and identify cross-functional dependencies
• Coach and mentor who proactively guides and encourages the team to improve, helping each team member achieve their own career goals.
• Inclusive, embracing the One Gigamon culture so that all our people bring their authentic selves to work with confidence and comfort. Committed to building a diverse team and then incorporating those diverse perspectives into decision-making.
• Have a strong executive presence with ability to understand program risks and drive accountability among different stakeholders. Equally comfortable sitting with a first-line engineering manager for a detailed project check-in, as presenting status & risks to the Executive Staff
• Ability to exert influence at multiple levels across the company with strong collaboration and persuasion skills, gaining support and trust across the organization to achieve agreed upon business outcomes
• Excellent communicator with strong written and verbal skills
• Foster Trust, act with Integrity, lean into Innovation, embrace an Employees First ethos, and communicate with Authenticity

What Youve Done:

• Successfully established new program management methodologies or upgraded existing processes in a company and seen resulting benefits by way of increased efficiency, streamlined and faster execution, cross-functional alignment, and increased adoption by customers.
• 10-15 years of experience with major development programs, including 5+ years in a leadership role specifically for program management
• Masters with Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. MBA preferred
• Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects and tasks in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Familiarity with IT Infrastructure & Security space, in particular having worked with software-rich enterprise products that also include a hardware component such as Network Security

Employees in this position are eligible to participate in the Companys standard employee benefit programs, which may include health and other insurances such as life and disability, and savings accounts such as a retirement plan with company matching contributions or similar, paid time off (holidays, vacation, and sick), tuition reimbursement, employee assistance program (EAP), business travel accident insurance, employee discounts, and employee referral program. Additionally, employees may be eligible to participate in the Profit Interest Units plan.We are committed to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive Gigamon. As an equal opportunity employer, all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, and/or local law.Gigamon fosters a business culture dedicated to equitable hiring. If your experience and skills closely match our job description but may not necessarily fulfill all requirements, please still apply. Gigamon is on a continued mission to grow and scale an innovative organization. We believe this is best achieved by hiring, celebrating, and respecting people with diverse backgrounds, skills, perspectives, and experiences.The privacy rights of all individuals including job applicants and candidates are very important to us. Our , will inform you about how Gigamon Inc. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries collect, use, store, or otherwise process personal information about job applicants and candidates, including through your access and/or use of our and third-party job websites (e.g. LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Naukri, etc.).

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