Remote Senior Program Manager Jobs in Davis, CA (NOW HIRING)

Job Overview:

Pay Range: $80.21hr - $85.21hr

Requirement/Must Have:

• 12+ years of progressive project and program management experience, including leadership of highly complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience supporting senior executives and serving as a trusted program management partner in a highly visible environment.
• Direct semiconductor and manufacturing industry experience.
• Proven ability to establish governance, integrated plans, RACIs, milestone tracking, decision logs, action tracking, risk management, and executive reporting from the ground up.
• PMP certification in active good standing.
• Practical experience applying Agile and Scrum methods in complex programs.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, Excel, and spreadsheet management, with the ability to produce polished executive deliverables independently.
• Demonstrated, responsible use of AI productivity tools to accelerate program management work while protecting confidential information.
• Ability to work primarily in Pacific Time and collaborate effectively with geographically distributed stakeholders.
• Exceptional judgment, discretion, written communication, facilitation, organizational discipline, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary program management partner to the Head of Talent Acquisition for the HR workstream.
• Translate strategic objectives into executable plans, measurable milestones, clear ownership, and decision-ready recommendations.
• Prepare executive briefings, presentations, status updates, meeting materials, and communications for leadership forums.
• Create leverage for leadership by maintaining operational discipline, surfacing risks early, and driving follow-through.
• Establish and manage the HR workstream governance model, meeting architecture, scheduling cadence, and stakeholder forums.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive RACI matrix that clarifies roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and escalation paths.
• Facilitate meetings, document decisions and actions, distribute concise recaps, and ensure owners close commitments on time.
• Coordinate cross-functional dependencies across HR and relevant business functions while preserving strict confidentiality.
• Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, detailed schedules, milestone tracker, deliverable tracker, dependency map, and critical path.
• Monitor progress against commitments, identify schedule or resource risks, and drive practical mitigation and recovery plans.
• Maintain a single, accurate view of workstream status, upcoming deadlines, decisions required, and areas needing leadership intervention.
• Adapt plans quickly as priorities evolve without losing accountability, documentation quality, or execution rigor.
• Own the decision register, action-required tracker, risk register, issue log, assumptions log, and escalation tracker.
• Ensure decisions are documented with owners, dates, rationale, dependencies, and required follow-up.
• Proactively identify blockers and facilitate resolution across stakeholders, escalating at the appropriate time and level.
• Create concise reporting that clearly distinguishes information updates, actions required, decisions required, risks, and milestones.
• Support development of the HR workstream budget, resource plan, assumptions, and supporting business cases.
• Monitor planned versus actual spend, commitments, forecast changes, and emerging budget risks.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, and workstream owners to maintain accurate budget reporting and supporting documentation.
• Prepare leadership-ready financial summaries and clearly flag decisions, tradeoffs, and corrective actions.
• Create executive-ready Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, dashboards, trackers, and decision materials.
• Use Microsoft Teams and SharePoint to enable disciplined collaboration, document control, meeting management, and transparent follow-through.
• Build and manage advanced Excel and spreadsheet-based trackers, analyses, reconciliations, and reporting tools.
• Apply Microsoft Copilot and other approved AI capabilities to improve meeting preparation, action capture, reporting, analysis, and workflow efficiency.

Nice to Have:

• West Coast-based candidate with established availability during Pacific Time business hours.
• Advanced certification such as Certified ScrumMaster, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or PgMP.
• Experience supporting organizational readiness, workforce planning, business expansion, or large-scale transformation programs.
• Experience managing budgets, consulting or contractor spend, resource forecasts, and leadership-level financial reporting.
• Experience partnering across Talent Acquisition, HR, Finance, IT, Legal, Procurement, and Operations.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, SharePoint, and dashboard/reporting solutions.

Skills:

• Project Management.
• Program Management.
• Governance (RACI).
• Microsoft Teams.
• Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Microsoft Excel.
• Microsoft SharePoint.
• Microsoft Project.
• Smartsheet.
• Agile.
• Scrum.
• AI Productivity Tools.
• Budget Management.
• Stakeholder Management.

Qualification And Education:

• PMP certification in active good standing.
• 12+ years of project and program management experience.