Technical Project Manager

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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations' greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That's why we're a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.

Job Responsibilities:

• Ensure successful project delivery by driving execution, communication, and change management across various initiatives.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams on defining roadmaps, aligning timelines, and overseeing resource allocation.

• Work closely with Product Management, Development, Quality Assurance, and Customer Support to incorporate the right mix of features, improvements, and bug fixes into each sprint.

• Communicate proactively on project status, schedules, dependencies, issues, and risks.

• Use analytical methods to help determine target completion dates.

• Ensure project documentation is up-to-date and accurate.

• Serve as the scrum master/project manager for multiple squads/projects.

• Facilitate Agile project management processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and sprint demos.

• Make recommendations and drive process improvement and adoption of best practices to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

• Implement metrics to measure and improve team performance.

• Educate the development teams on Agile best practices.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science,

• Engineering, or a related field 3+ years of experience as a Technical Project Manager in an Agile development environment with direct experience as a scrum master

• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to identify and mitigate risks and issues.

• Proven ability to define, implement and measure the effectiveness of process-related improvements.

• Experience with Agile methodologies and tools, including Scrum, Kanban, and Jira. You should be able to adapt agile methodologies to fit the needs of the organization.

• Meticulous attention to detail

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We're a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly 'culture-add', and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

Base Pay Range: 116,690.00 - 183,370.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

Base Pay Range: 96,880.00 - 152,240.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 87,220.00 - 137,060.00 USD