Technical Program Manager

Location: Kraków (Hybrid 2-3 days at the office/week)

What we do:

At Cognizant, we are dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses — helping them go from doing digital to being digital. In Poland, our offices are in Gdańsk, Wroclaw, and Kraków. However proposed offer is based in the Client office based in Warsaw. With the capacity to support various clients, we offer a world of opportunities for both professionals and graduates. You can expect five-star training, a chance to realize your career goals, and a range of benefits. Be Cognizant!

About the role:

We are currently looking for a Technical Program Manager who will be leading end-to-end project management of technical customer engagements from pitch to execution. 

Responsibilities:

• Drive alignment on deliverables timelines across external & internal stakeholders. 
• Hold project teams accountable to meeting agreed-upon deadlines. 
• Orchestrate delivery of project plans, working closely with Google execution teams in region, Sales, and the customer. 
• Actively track progress of solution delivery across all customer engagements, providing clear status updates of solution status. 
• Clear documentation of key takeaways, action items, next steps, and challenges from project meetings. 
• Coordinate all internal / external communications from pitch through execution, ensuring that all relevant stakeholders are updated on meeting takeaways, action items, next steps, and roadblocks. 
• Organize all internal / external meetings required from end-to-end engagement execution (internal alignments, customer pitches, discovery kick-off, regular check-ins, etc.). 
• Timely escalation of project roadblocks & issues to relevant internal working teams, providing clear asks needed to resolve issues. 
• Create and manage project collateral (decks, trackers) on pitches, agreed-upon solution roadmaps, project status trackers (internal / external), check-in reviews, etc. 
• Act as a primary point of accountability for end-to-end engagement execution by conducting regular debriefs on progress with agencies, Sales, and internal project teams (monthly, quarterly), staying informed and proactive on troubleshooting challenges and trends. 

Skills & Experience:

• Ability to develop internal and external stakeholder networks - navigating Google and the customer side to build relationships necessary to deliver against strategic plans and projects.  
• Strong technical project management enabling multiple cross-functional teams to deliver against plan. 
• Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to adapt a narrative to both technical and business audiences, including C-levels audiences.  
• Strong skills in negotiation, influence and evangelization. 
• Industry knowledge of both general cloud infrastructure and digital marketing measurement methodologies, best practices, tools & platforms, etc. (e.g., media mix models, incrementality experiments, attribution modeling). 

What we offer: 

• Competitive salary with cafeteria benefits and bonuses
• Opportunity to be part of a rapidly expanding global organization
• Pleasant and inspiring working atmosphere
• Professional development and clear career path
• Training & development opportunities
• Private healthcare and additional life insurance
• Employee volunteering programs and opportunities
• Inclusion and diversity in practice
• Employee referral program in place

For more information about Cognizant, visit https://www.cognizant.com/en-pl/

If you are looking for another opportunity and are interested in the company, do not hesitate to apply online!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.