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Principal Program Manager

This role is Office BasedHyderabad Office

Cornerstone OnDemand is looking for a Technical Program Manager who will drive the planning execution and delivery of complex cross-functional technical programs. You will work at the intersection of engineering product and business teams to ensure large-scale initiatives are delivered with clarity predictability and impact. This role requires a strong technical foundation combined with exceptional program management skills to orchestrate multiple workstreams and stakeholders toward shared outcomes.

In this role you will

Program Planning & Execution

- Own end-to-end program management for large-scale cross-functional technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams products and business units.
- Define program scope milestones deliverables success criteria and resource requirements in collaboration with engineering and product leadership.
- Build and maintain detailed program plans roadmaps and schedules with transparent dependencies critical paths and risk mitigation strategies.
- Drive program execution through structured governance standups status reviews steering committee meetings and escalation workflows.
- Track and report program health progress risks and blockers to senior leadership and stakeholders through dashboards and executive summaries.
- Manage program-level trade-offs across scope timeline quality and resources making recommendations grounded in data and technical context.
- Conduct retrospectives and post-mortems to capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement in delivery processes.
- Identify process bottlenecks and inefficiencies across teams and implement improvements to accelerate delivery cycles.

Technical Leadership & Cross-Functional Alignment

- Partner with engineering leaders and architects to understand system designs technical dependencies and integration points across programs.
- Facilitate architecture and design reviews to ensure alignment across teams and identify cross-cutting concerns early.
- Coordinate platform migrations infrastructure upgrades API versioning and other technical initiatives that span multiple teams.
- Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to ensure release readiness deployment coordination and operational handoffs for program deliverables.




- Define and drive Agile-at-scale practices (SAFe Scrum of Scrums or similar) across engineering teams to improve delivery predictability and velocity.
- Facilitate alignment between product roadmaps engineering capacity and business priorities to ensure realistic commitments.

Stakeholder Communication & Risk Management

- Serve as the central point of communication for program status decisions and escalations across engineering product design QA and business teams.
- Translate complex technical concepts and program details into clear concise updates for executive leadership and non-technical stakeholders.
- Manage stakeholder expectations proactively surfacing trade-offs timeline impacts and scope changes early with data-backed recommendations.
- Build and maintain a risk management framework proactively identifying assessing and mitigating risks before they become blockers.
- Manage cross-team dependency tracking capacity planning and sprint/release coordination.
- Build strong relationships across the organization to enable effective collaboration and influence without authority.

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Requirements

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Technology or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in technical program management engineering project management or a related role within software product organizations.
- 5 years of hands-on software engineering or technical lead experience (prior to or alongside program management).
- Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale cross-functional technical programs on time and within scope.

Technical Expertise

- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle system architecture distributed systems and cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
- Familiarity with microservices architecture API design CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.




- Ability to read and understand code technical design documents and architecture diagrams at a level sufficient to assess risks and dependencies.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and scaling frameworks.
- Proficiency with program management and collaboration tools such as Jira Azure DevOps Confluence Smartsheet or MS Project.

Communication & Leadership

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging for technical and executive audiences.
- Strong facilitation skills able to lead productive meetings drive decisions and resolve conflicts constructively.
- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple complex programs simultaneously.
- Proven ability to build trust and influence across engineering product and business functions.
- Proactive and self-driven with a strong sense of ownership over program outcomes.

Nice to Have

- Experience in SaaS/enterprise product development environments.
- Exposure to AI/ML programs and their unique delivery challenges.
- Familiarity with talent management HR tech or learning management domains.

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