About Ascendion:
Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.
Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life
We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:
- Build the coolest tech for the world’s leading brands
- Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
- Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
- Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience.
Experience a community of change-makers!
Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.
*** About the Role ***
Job Title: Operation Lead
Description:
Industry Background:
- Networking experience.
- Enterprise companies with lots of cross-functional teams.
Environment/Day-to-Day:
- Operational support for various VPs and SVPs across various departments.
- 50% repetitive/repeatable tasks for business continuity
- 50% ad hoc projects/requests
Must Haves:
- Executive communication and interpersonal skills.
- Core project management and business operations skills.
- Networking background to hit the ground running.
- Strong attention to detail and organization.
- Ability to think critically and strategically, reliable to “get the job done”.
- Excellent cross-functional coordination and ability to multitask.
- Strong stakeholder management, with all levels of the organization.
- Excellent SharePoint and content management – lead by example..
Job Description:
Team Environment:
Part of a team directly supporting an SVP level leader in their overall engineering efforts while collaborating and working closely with teams within client Networking Engineering Operations, across CN, other client organizations, and with cross-functional partners in the BU Product Management and Engineering teams. Also directly supporting a VP of Engineering who reports into the SVP.
Summary:
This role will be supporting an operations team providing engineering support to an SVP with focus on strategic and key operations initiatives. In addition, the role will also support VP level engineering leaders as needed and decided by the Chief of Staff Team.
Day to Day:
- Be a part of the Operations Team supporting an SVP
- Provide operational support to an Engineering VP, as needed
- Support the engineering Leaders in the organization in running their engineering activities
- Build strong partnership with the PMO, Financial Operations and Finance Leads as a single point of contact for leader and leadership team
- Lead special engineering projects/initiatives within the organization as needed
- Plan and coordinate organizational meetings such as staff, extended staff, all hands, offsites
- Lead preparation and attend as appropriate run the engineering and interlock meetings (such as Quarterly Quality Reviews, Project Reviews and Customer meetings
- Lead and own the quarterly / annual planning engineering processes
- Provide analysis related to budget, recognition, lab and workplace resources, headcount, hiring, compliance training etc.
- Track and drive completion of action items and deliverables the Engineering Leadership team
Must Haves:
- 5+ years previous relevant work experience in high tech industry in engineering operations and/or project management.
- BA/BS in Business Management or relevant field.
- Familiarity with project and engineering management in the context of a large engineering organization.
- Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communications skills at all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated organizational and time-management skills.
- Ability to excel in a dynamic, fast-paced and high-demand environment.
- Excellent time management and planning skills with the ability to shift priorities in a highly dynamic environment.
- High proficiency in MS Office including SharePoint, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel
Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $120,000 – $130,000 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year.
The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]
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