Program Manager, PDLC

At Vasion, our mission is to make digital transformation attainable for everyone. We build cloud-native enterprise software that empowers organizations to automate workflows, eliminate paper, and operate smarter. We are scaling fast, we do not do conventional, and we hire people who think the same way.

About the Role

Vasion is adopting a Product Development Life Cycle, a cross-company operating model designed to bring just enough structure to how we build and ship software. As a Program Manager on the PDLC team, you will be one of the people who makes it real.

This is not a coordination role. You will not be tracking status and scheduling syncs. You will be embedded across engineering and product management teams as a practitioner, coach, and change agent helping teams not just follow the PDLC, but understand it, trust it, and work inside it naturally.

You will split your time between two things: operating the PDLC across active programs day-to-day, and helping build and improve the framework itself. Your perspective from inside the teams will actively shape how the system evolves. Vasion's engineering organization is also moving toward agent-native development, which means genuine curiosity about AI is part of the job.

What You Will Do

PDLC Adoption and Change Enablement

Operate as an embedded PDLC practitioner, modeling the framework and helping cross-functional partners understand why it exists and how to use it

Coach engineering and product management team members on PDLC practices by meeting them where they are, not where the playbook says they should be

Build trust through consistency, follow-through, and genuine partnership, not process authority

Communicate the value of the PDLC to engineering clearly and often: reduced context-switching, clearer scope handoffs, fewer rebuilds, better predictability

PDLC Framework Contribution and Development

Partner with the VP of PgM to build, document, and refine processes, templates, stage gate criteria, and governance standards

Develop and maintain playbooks and documentation that make the PDLC accessible across Product Management and Engineering

Translate on-the-ground experience into framework improvements

End-to-End Program Management

Own the full lifecycle of assigned programs from Discovery through Grow: scope, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables at every stage

Build program plans that give Product Management, Engineering, Design, QA, and Go-to-Market a shared view of what is happening, what is next, and who owns what

Stay ahead of risks and blockers; bring well-reasoned options to the VP before problems compound

Facilitate kick-offs, stage gate reviews, cross-functional syncs, and retrospectives to drive clear outcomes and documented next steps every time

Cross-Functional Alignment and Communication

Serve as the day-to-day coordination point between Product Management, Engineering, Design, QA, and Go-to-Market for programs in your portfolio

Surface and resolve cross-team misalignments and dependency conflicts before they impact delivery

Reporting and Documentation

Maintain accurate, up-to-date program documentation throughout the full lifecycle

Treat documentation as a core part of program quality in order to make programs reproducible, learnable, and increasingly agent-ready