Program Manager - Sensor Foundations

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to protecting people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission has been to stop breaches, and we have redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We operate on large-scale distributed systems, processing nearly 3 trillion events daily, with traffic that continues to grow. Our diverse customer base spans all industries, relying on CrowdStrike to ensure business continuity, community safety, and forward progress. We are a mission-driven company fostering a culture of flexibility and autonomy, empowering every CrowdStriker to own their careers. We seek talented individuals with boundless passion, a relentless focus on innovation, and a fanatical commitment to our customers, community, and each other. The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role

CrowdStrike is a fast-growing security company protecting a wide range of customers from cybersecurity attacks. This role requires an energetic, eager-to-learn, and flexible Program Manager capable of leading large-scale/complex engineering projects in a fast-paced environment while appropriately tailoring processes for projects and teams.

As a Program Manager, you will support the Sensor Foundation Platform Group, including local team processes and sensor-impacting work streams. Sensor Foundations extends CrowdStrike’s mission of “stopping breaches” at the sensor level. Your primary focus will be driving the scheduling, scoping, and end-to-end execution of programs and portfolios for Sensor Foundations, working directly with Engineering Developers, Product Managers, and Dev Managers to ensure timely delivery against the roadmap. You will collaborate across functional teams and geographic locations (Europe, United Kingdom, Israel, and the United States) to identify and resolve dependencies and critical issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate cross-functional teams at all levels, from detailed technical discussions with developers to strategic executive presentations.
• Drive technical communication by understanding complex technical contexts, aligning them with business objectives, and delivering project outcomes, resources, and timelines.
• Own and drive project scheduling, coordinate task assignments with development management, and manage schedule progress across large phases and detailed tasks, including internal and cross-Product Group dependencies.
• Lead collaboration with staff and management across multiple worldwide business units (including subject matter experts, product management, design teams, and technology teams) to define project involvement, goals, expectations, and deliverables.
• Proactively track project activity status, ensuring schedules and priorities are met.
• Ensure critical issues are identified, tracked to resolution, and escalated as necessary.
• Proactively manage daily/weekly project communication and status reporting.
• Lead meetings and create/follow up on meeting minutes and action items.
• Flexibly work across time zones to coordinate and follow up on work.
• Willingness to travel both locally and internationally several times per quarter.

Requirements

• Proficiency in project and program tooling (e.g., Jira, Gitlab).
• 5+ years of experience in a program/project management capacity for software development.
• Experience with or exposure to large-scale platforms (sensor technologies) and complex inter-dependent technologies.
• Seasoned agile and team coach experienced in managing and alleviating persistent obstacles.
• Experience with Software Development Lifecycle and Project Management Methodologies, specifically Agile/Scrum.
• Experience with Sca