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Senior Program Manager

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional programs
  • Strong program management expertise, including portfolio planning and risk management
  • Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments
  • Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead the integrated portfolio of initiatives for the VoC practice
  • Drive accountability across cross-functional teams
  • Establish and manage the operating rhythm for the practice
  • Coordinate VoC practice socialization and go-to-market initiatives

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Program Management
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Governance
  • Problem Solving
  • Analytical Skills
  • Communication
  • Consulting
  • Decision Making
  • Time Management

About the company

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Genesys

Customer Experience & Contact Centers

Every year, Genesys® orchestrates more than 70 billion remarkable customer experiences for organizations in more than 100 countries. Through the power of our cloud, digital and AI technologies, organizations can realize Experience as a Service℠, our vision for empathetic customer experiences at scale. With Genesys, organizations have the power to deliver proactive, predictive, and hyper personalized experiences to deepen their customer connection across every marketing, sales, and service moment on any channel, while also improving employee productivity and engagement. By transforming back-office technology to a modern revenue velocity engine Genesys enables true intimacy at scale to foster customer trust and loyalty. Genesys recruiters will never ask for sensitive personal or financial information during the application phase. Initial inquiries might come through LinkedIn, but all communication thereafter is through an official Genesys portal. Continue to stay alert and safe.

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryCustomer Experience & Contact Centers
Company size5001 - 10000

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Job description

Be the one building AI-powered experiences where they matter most.

At Genesys, we help organizations create better customer experiences through AI-powered experience orchestration. Our platform connects people, systems, data and AI to help organizations deliver more personalized service, improve operational efficiency and build stronger customer relationships.

Help build, support and operate technology used by more than 8,000 organizations in over 100 countries – moving AI from possibility to production in real-world enterprise environments every day.


Genesys is seeking a strategic and proactive Senior Program Manager to help lead the growth and evolution of our global Voice of the Customer (VoC) practice. This role will translate practice strategy into execution, driving the portfolio of work required to build, scale, and continuously improve the practice, including offer development, methodology and playbook creation, enablement, research initiatives, go-to-market activities, and other strategic priorities. 


You will work closely with VoC practice leadership, subject matter experts, and cross-functional partners to establish priorities, connect work across initiatives, and ensure the practice can execute effectively at scale. You will bring structure to ambiguity, anticipate risks and dependencies, facilitate decisions, and create visibility across a complex portfolio of work. 


The ideal candidate combines strong program leadership with strategic thinking, sound business judgment, and a passion for customer experience. You should be equally comfortable building an execution framework, facilitating a cross-functional discussion, analyzing what is preventing progress, and translating complex activity into a clear narrative for senior leaders. 

What you’ll do 

Lead Practice Planning & Execution 

  • Own the integrated portfolio of initiatives required to build, scale, and continuously improve the VoC practice, connecting individual projects to broader practice priorities and outcomes. 
  • Partner with practice leadership to translate strategy and priorities into actionable roadmaps, workstreams, milestones, ownership, and measures of success. 
  • Establish and manage the operating rhythm for the practice, creating visibility into priorities, progress, dependencies, decisions, risks, and outcomes. 
  • Evaluate competing priorities and dependencies across the portfolio, identifying tradeoffs and recommending paths forward when resources, timing, or objectives conflict. 
  • Anticipate risks and barriers to execution, proactively resolving issues where possible and bringing clear recommendations to practice leadership when decisions are required. 
  • Drive accountability across cross-functional teams, ensuring commitments, decisions, and actions translate into progress. 
  • Develop clear, executive-ready communications that synthesize portfolio status, emerging issues, decisions, and implications. 
  • Establish scalable program management approaches, tools, templates, and processes that support the needs of a growing global practice. 
  • Use practice and program data to identify execution trends, capacity constraints, opportunities for improvement, and areas requiring leadership attention. 

Drive Strategic Practice Initiatives 

  • Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that advance the growth and maturity of the VoC practice, from initial concept through rollout and measurement. 
  • Drive the development and launch of new VoC offers, coordinating methodology, delivery readiness, enablement, go-to-market dependencies, and launch activities. 
  • Lead planning and execution for strategic research initiatives, coordinating internal teams, customers, external partners, and resulting thought leadership or practice assets. 
  • Partner with subject matter experts to turn emerging ideas into structured initiatives, defining the path from concept to repeatable practice capability. 
  • Coordinate VoC practice socialization and go-to-market initiatives across marketing, enablement, thought leadership, research, sales, and other cross-functional partners. 
  • Connect work across initiatives to identify opportunities for reuse, simplification, or greater impact rather than managing projects as independent efforts. 
  • Define success measures for major initiatives and establish mechanisms to assess adoption, effectiveness, and impact. 
  • Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement efforts, translating lessons learned into changes to practice processes, methodologies, and ways of working. 
  • Serve as a trusted program partner to practice leadership, bringing an informed point of view on execution, prioritization, dependencies, and opportunities to scale. 

What we’re looking for 

  • 7+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional programs in program management, consulting, professional services, customer experience, practice development, or a related field. 
  • Demonstrated experience managing a portfolio of interconnected initiatives and translating strategic priorities into executable plans. 
  • Strong program management expertise, including portfolio planning, prioritization, dependency management, risk management, governance, and measurement. 
  • Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and evolving environments, bringing structure to work that may not have predefined requirements, processes, or solutions. 
  • Strong business judgment and problem-solving skills, with the ability to anticipate issues, evaluate tradeoffs, develop recommendations, and drive decisions. 
  • Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience driving outcomes across teams without direct reporting authority. 
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information and communicate effectively with both working teams and senior leadership. 
  • Ability to move fluidly between strategic context and execution detail, understanding both why an initiative matters and what is required to deliver it successfully. 
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort using program, operational, or business data to identify trends, assess progress, and inform decisions. 
  • A proactive working style with a demonstrated ability to anticipate needs, connect the dots across workstreams, and maintain momentum in a fast-moving environment. 
  • A continuous improvement mindset and demonstrated ability to build scalable processes without creating unnecessary complexity. 
  • Experience with Voice of the Customer practices, customer experience, consulting, CX research, or go-to-market offer development is strongly preferred. 
  • Experience in a SaaS, professional services, consulting, or other complex cross-functional environment is preferred. 
  • Experience with Asana, Smartsheet or comparable work management and portfolio management platforms is beneficial. 
  • Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile, or related program management training or certification is a plus. 

Why this role 

The Voice of the Customer practice is building new ways to help organizations turn customer feedback into meaningful action. Doing that successfully requires more than strong ideas. It requires disciplined execution, clear priorities, and visibility across the many initiatives needed to build and scale the practice. 

In this role, you will help create that structure. You will work closely with practice leaders and subject matter experts to move research, new offers, methodologies, tools, and other priorities from concept through completion. 

You will have broad exposure to the development of a growing consulting practice and the opportunity to work across customer experience, analytics, research, consulting, and technology. Your work will directly influence how effectively the practice operates and how quickly new capabilities can be brought to customers and the broader Genesys organization. 

Compensation:

This role has a market-competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation range listed below. Actual salaries will vary depending on a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. This role might also be eligible for a commission or performance-based bonus opportunities.  

$132,300.00 - $232,700.00

Benefits:

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance. 

  • Telehealth coverage

  • Flexible work schedules and work from home opportunities

  • Development and career growth opportunities

  • Open Time Off in addition to 10 paid holidays

  • 401(k) matching program

  • Adoption Assistance

  • Fertility treatments

Click here to view a summary overview of our Benefits.


Working at Genesys

  • AI at enterprise scale – Build, support and operate AI-powered technology used by more than 8,000 organizations worldwide. 150+ new AI features were released in the last fiscal year.
  • A flexible-first culture – Join a global team of nearly 7,000 employees with flexible ways of working designed to help people do their best work.
  • Growth in the AI era – Build future-ready skills through mentorship, learning programs, leadership development and education support.
  • Time to recharge and give back – Benefits include paid volunteer time, August Free Fridays, well-being resources and regionally tailored programs for employees and their families.
  • Recognized globally – Genesys is Great Place to Work® certified in 17 countries and 94% of employees are proud to tell others they work at Genesys.

Learn more about our culture, AI innovation and sustainability commitments through our Careers site and Sustainability Report.


What Happens After You Apply

After you apply, here's what you can typically expect:

  • Our Talent Acquisition team reviews your application with the hiring team.
  • A Talent Acquisition Partner will review your application and, if your background is aligned, schedule a Zoom interview.

  • Next, you'll meet the hiring manager and other members of the interview team.
  • We aim to keep the process focused and respectful of your time, with no more than five interviews in most cases.
  • After interviews are complete, our team will follow up with the final steps.

Every application is reviewed by a person. Response times may vary by role and location, but our team will keep you informed throughout the process.


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About Genesys:

Genesys® empowers more than 8,000 organizations worldwide to create the best customer and employee experiences. Genesys Cloud™ is the Agentic Orchestration Platform that securely connects people, systems, data and AI across the enterprise with built-in governance and control. As a result, organizations can drive customer loyalty, growth and retention while increasing operational efficiency and teamwork across human and AI workforces. To learn more, visit www.genesys.ai. 

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Genesys is an equal opportunity employer committed to fairness in the workplace. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, domestic partner status, national origin, genetics, disability, military and veteran status, and other protected characteristics.


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