A Day In The Life Of A Senior Program Manager At Deliverr
A Senior Program Manager's day at Deliverr is "a lot of meetings," including update and project meetings, with intentional time allocated for documentation review and data analysis to support new tool development; relationship building through proactive communication is also key to success in this role.
Project Management, Communication, Meetings, Data Analysis, Relationship Building
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Nicholas Fong
Senior Program Manager
Deliverr
UC Merced, 2014
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Economics
Technology
Strategic Management and Executive
Honors Student, Scholarship Recipient, Took Out Loans, Worked 20+ Hours in School
Video Highlights
1. A Senior Program Manager's day involves many meetings, including update and project meetings.
2. There is dedicated time for documentation, reviewing documents (like Google Docs or Notion docs), and analyzing spreadsheets.
3. Relationship building through proactive communication is also a key aspect of the role.
Transcript
What does the day in the life of a senior program manager look like?
I'll be honest, it's a lot of meetings. A lot of times, as I mentioned, you're managing a team.
So, you're often working on projects, and the project approval often goes up to you as the manager. That's the day-to-day.
But as I mentioned, it starts with a lot of meetings. Sometimes they're update meetings, sometimes they're project meetings. I intentionally schedule time to work on documenting a process or reviewing documents.
By "paper," I mean a Google Doc or a Notion Doc. I also review spreadsheet analyses. If we're developing some kind of new tool, I make sure I have time to review that.
A lot of it is also relationship building, which you do through content communication. Proactive communication is always better than reactive.
Frankly, if you look at the actual work that's done, a lot of it is meeting-based, to be frank.