Senior IT Program Manager
At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.
Senior IT Program Manager
Why We Have This Role
We are looking for an experienced Senior IT Program Manager to play a critical role in driving the successful delivery of programs that align business priorities with technology strategy. This role ensures we deliver value to the business while managing dependencies, risks, and communications across teams. You’ll be instrumental in creating structure and accountability in our IT delivery process.
How You’ll Find Success
- Program Execution: Lead large-scale, cross-functional programs and keep delivery aligned to business outcomes.
- Stakeholder Partnership: Proactively build trust quickly with stakeholders across IT, business, and external vendors.
- Change Navigation - Anticipate blockers and manage ambiguity with composure and clarity.
- Clear Communication - Translate technical and delivery details into compelling updates tailored to your audience. Keep everyone - from engineers to executives - informed with crisp, clear updates.
- Delivery Accountability - Define success metrics up front, track them throughout the program, and report on outcomes.
How You’ll Grow
- Enterprise Exposure - Gain exposure to enterprise-level program governance and cross-org planning process.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration - Build partnerships with IT strategy, enterprise architecture, and executive sponsors.
- Delivery Frameworks - Contribute to maturing our program management practices through playbooks, frameworks and mentoring.
- Expand your impact by shaping repeatable delivery models for future transformation initiatives.
Things You’ll Do
- End-to-End Program Management - Lead complex IT programs, from initiation through execution, risk management, and delivery.
- Requirement Analysis: Evaluate business processes, anticipate requirements, and uncover areas for improvement.
- Lead customer service transformation programs, from process redesign and platform implementation through adoption and measurable improvement in customer outcomes.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define scope, success metrics, and delivery milestones.
- Manage multiple project teams across business units, IT, and vendors, ensuring aligned timelines and outcomes.
- Partner with ServiceNow platform owners, architects, and implementation partners to plan releases, manage configuration and integration dependencies, and prioritize the roadmap.
- Track program health using appropriate tools and metrics, ensuring issues are surfaced and addressed.
- Conduct steering meetings, retrospectives, and decision forums with executive and operational stakeholders.
What We’re Looking For On Your Resume
- 5+ years of experience leading IT programs with multiple workstreams, external vendors, and executive-level reporting, ideally in a complex, enterprise environment.
- Proven success delivering programs with cross-functional teams, external vendors, and multiple stakeholders.
- Experience leading customer service or support transformation initiatives (e.g., support operations redesign, case management modernization, self-service/knowledge enablement, or service-level improvements).