ComPsych Corporation

Program Manager

ComPsych Corporation$125K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in program, delivery, or technical project management, with at least 7 years in software product development.
  • Strong self-starter with proven multi-tasking and autonomous work abilities.
  • Exceptional organizational and project management skills.
  • Effective communication and interpersonal skills essential for team alignment.
  • Ability to operate as a peer to product and engineering leaders, not merely in a reporting role.
  • Fluency in flow metrics, using data to drive system improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Run multi-team planning to align roadmap intent with capacity and re-plan as needed.
  • Own the group's operating rhythm to ensure synchronized team ceremonies.
  • Identify and eliminate friction points hindering group performance.
  • Drive resolution of dependencies both within the group and across neighboring teams.
  • Clearly communicate trade-offs in decision-making backed by data analysis.
  • Continuously coach teams on agile practices and their underlying reasoning.
  • Track actionable improvements from retrospectives to foster ongoing development.
  • Measure flow and outcomes, focusing on metrics that influence decision-making rather than mere activity.

Benefits

  • Full benefits package including Paid Time Off (PTO), medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) with match.
  • Robust employee assistance program and wellness initiatives.
  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic environment focusing on AI-driven processes.
Full Job Description
Job Summary

Program management at ComPsych is an enablement function: the job is to make it easier for teams to deliver value by removing friction in people, process, technology, and tools; naming problems plainly and owning them toward resolution rather than escalating them away; and defending the processes that help teams work well while killing the ones that don't. The Program Manager, Technology is one of three leadership roles accountable for a product development group, alongside a product leader who owns what gets built and why, and an engineering leader who owns how it gets built and the health of the systems underneath it. This role owns how thework flowsand, paradoxically, its effectiveness is measured by how much less the teams need it over time. AI is a fundamental part of how ComPsych works, and this role is expected to embrace and helpleadthe evolution of agile structures, processes, and ways of working as AI changes the constraints on delivery.

Primary Responsibilities
  • Run multi-team planning: convert roadmap intent into a sequenced, capacity-aware view of what the group can commit to and what it cannot, and re-plan early, with options attached, when reality diverges.
  • Own the group's operating rhythm: the cadence of planning, review, demonstration, and retrospective that keeps sub-teams synchronized, ensuring every recurring ceremony answers what decision does this enable?
  • Hunt friction and delay: find the handoffs, queues, approval bottlenecks, and environment delays slowing the group, and lead the work that removes them.
  • Drive dependencies to resolution inside the group and across its neighbors, bringing a proposed path forward with every risk raised rather than only cataloging risks.
  • Make trade-offs explicit  what is gained, what is given up, and what it costs to defer  then drive them to a decision, saying no or not yet to work thatdoesn'tfit the priorities, backed by data.
  • Coach the teams continuously on story decomposition, vertical slicing, estimation, Definition of Ready and Done, retrospective quality, and WIP discipline, teaching the reasoning behind a practice rather than the ceremony, and developing the Scrum Masters and delivery leads around them.
  • Make retrospectives produce change, owning that at least one improvement per cycle is tracked to closure.
  • Measure flow and outcomes rather than activity,discontinuingany metric thatdoesn'tchange a decision.
  • Orchestrate go-to-market for the group's launches, owning the release calendar and gates and keeping delivery and commercial tracks  marketing, sales, customer success, partner enablement, legal and privacy, clinical and compliance, implementation, and support  moving in parallel from prioritization forward.
  • Embrace change and enable AI workflows, helpingleadthe discovery of new ways of working as AI reshapes agile structures, processes, metrics, and ceremonies.
  • Other duties as assigned
Job Qualifications
  • Education: No specific degreerequired;demonstratedpractice is valued over credentials.
  • Self-starter with ability to multi-task and work autonomously
  • Excellent organizational and project management skills
  • Effective interpersonal and communication skills

  • 10+ years of experience in program, delivery, or technical project management, including at least 7 years in software product development, witha track recordof orchestrating delivery across multiple teams toward a shared outcome and accountability for results across teams not directly managed.
  • Demonstrated ability tooperateas a peer to product and engineering leadership rather than as a reporting function  driving alignment through sound reasoning and visible trade-offs.
  • Systems-level thinking: ability to name upstream demand, downstream consumers, and the current bottleneck, and to target improvement work at the bottleneck rather than the loudest complaint.
  • Fluency with flow metrics  cycle time, work in progress, throughput, blocked and wait time, predictability, deployment frequency  anda track recordof using data to change how the system works, not just to narrate status.
  • Experience carrying launches, not just releases, including coordinating cross-functional go-to-market readiness alongside software delivery and piloted or staged rollouts.
  • Comfort holding multiple plausible scenarios open under ambiguity, committing decisively once evidence supports a direction, and changing course when the evidence says to.
  • A coaching orientation: ability to teach the reasoning behind a practice rather than police the ritual, and to read teams accurately enough to know what each needs next.
  • Also valuable, though not required: experience as a Release Train Engineer, Solution Train Engineer, delivery lead, or Agile coach (SAFeor non-SAFe); experience supporting a long-lived product group rather than a series of discrete projects; experience in healthcare, behavioral health, or other regulated environments; experience helping an organization move from project-based delivery to flow-based ways of working; and experience building DORA and SPACE metrics in Jira, Confluence, or similar platforms. Certifications are welcome but notrequired.
  • FLSA Exemption Basis
  • This role is classified as exempt under the administrative exemption. The Program Manager's primary duty is the performance of office work directly related to the management and general business operations ofComPsych, andincludes the exercise of discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance, including multi-team planning, prioritization trade-offs, dependency resolution, and go-to-market sequencing. The roleoperatesas a peer to product and engineering leadership rather than in a reporting capacity to them. Exemption status should be confirmed periodically against then-current federal and state wage and hour law.

Other Requirements

  • Consistent and reliable high-speed internet and workspace free from distraction, disruption, or noise isrequired
  • Ability to be present on camera during work-relatedtrainings, meetings, and/or events
  • Must be able to sit or stand at a desk for prolonged periods while working on a computer

Compensation and Benefits
  • Full benefits package, including Paid Time Off (PTO), medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with match, robust EAP, wellness program, and much more
  • The salary range for this position is $125,000-$150,000 (USD). The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, and scheduled hours.

About ComPsych Corporation

ComPsych Corporation is a provider of employee assistance programs (EAP), corporate wellness, and crisis management services. The company was founded in 1984 by Dr. Richard A. Chaifetz. ComPsych provides services to more than 33,000 organizations covering more than 89 million individuals throughout the United States and over 160 countries. The company has been recognized as one of the largest privately held companies in Chicago and one of the largest EAP providers in the world.
Learn more about ComPsych Corporation
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
1984

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