Sr. Program Manager - Engineer, CTIO (Hybrid)

About the role

We're investing in program managers who are energetic, eager to learn, flexible and capable of managing large scale/complex engineering projects in a fast-paced environment through innovative AI-enhanced approaches. As a Program Manager, you'll be responsible for directly supporting and engaging in the work and projects of the CTIO team. The CTIO ensures CrowdStrike maintains its position as a technology leader by fostering engineering excellence, aligning technical capabilities with business objectives, and anticipating emerging threats and market trends. We're seeking a Senior Program Manager to join a growing team, where you will be deeply embedded with engineering teams and partners across the organization to drive complex platform engineering programs. You will be responsible for providing hands-on program leadership and direct support to the CTIO organization's sensor, cloud engineering, and research teams, leveraging both traditional program practices and innovative, AI-enhanced approaches. This role involves managing multiple cross-team projects and programs as well as developing AI-powered solutions that automate routine tasks, surface insights, and enhance decision-making for the team. You'll work closely with the teams and across geo-locations in the United States, Europe and India to collaborate and ensure dependencies are well known, critical issues are identified and driven to resolution. Location: This is a hybrid role based out Redmond, WA, Sunnyvale, CA, Austin, TX, Arlington, VA, NYC, or Toronto with an expectation of being in the office at least 2 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Traditional Program Management (70%):
• Partner and facilitate directly with sensor engineering, cloud engineering, and research teams at all levels; from debugging deployment issues with engineers to providing executive updates on project initiatives
• Demonstrate technical fluency in architecture, cloud infrastructure, build systems, and platform engineering practices in order to align with business objectives and drive project deliverables, resources, and timelines
• Drive technical decision-making processes, facilitating discussions between engineering teams to resolve architectural challenges, infrastructure dependencies, and build system optimizations, exercising sound judgment in decisions involving people, data, and technology trade-offs
• Create and drive project delivery schedules for endpoint and cloud platform initiatives, working with engineering management on task assignments and managing progress of portfolio phases through detailed implementation tasks, including dependencies within and across teams
• Proactively track status of engineering activities and ensure schedules and priorities are met for releases
• Ensure critical infrastructure issues are identified, tracked through resolution, and escalated appropriately, creatively addressing complex problems and managing risks at both project and cross-portfolio levels
• Manage daily/weekly project communication and status reporting for complex platform initiatives
• Coach distributed teams and cross-functional partners on frameworks and shared accountability, synthesizing complex portfolio insights to drive aligned, executable outcomes across the organization
• AI Tooling Creation (30%):
• Build AI-powered dashboards and automated reporting systems using Claude skills and agentic workflows for project monitoring and program insights
• Create intelligent integrations between Jira, GitLab, monitoring tools, and build systems that surface platform health and program risks automatically
• Design AI-enhanced workflows that automate routine program management tasks while improving visibility into sensor platform engineering programs, freein

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Additional Information

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn't changed - we're here to stop breaches, and we've redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We're always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

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