User:KSmith (WMF)/Engineering Program Manager

Earlier attempt at a JD: Empirical JD:
 * User:KSmith (WMF)/New role in Technology
 * Quarterly planning
 * Establish timeline for each quarterly planning cycle
 * Announce/remind/review setting goals and updating the wiki page
 * Create check-in decks; shepherd program owners adding content; review
 * Coordinate check-in event (invite, recruit timekeeper/scribe, facilitate)
 * Post decks and notes on commons/meta; conduct a retrospective
 * Program work
 * Regular communications with departmental program owners, about recent past/current/upcoming goals and work
 * Thinking and getting others to think about high-level and long-term program structure and goals
 * Coordinate with Cross-Departmental Program owners (e.g. SDC) as needed
 * Proofing materials (e.g. blog posts)
 * From original JD: Provide backlog maintenance and visibility across all Technology programs
 * From original JD: Assist with project management and execution for multiple, collaborative, geographically distributed programs
 * Dev Summit
 * Assist Rachel and Sarah with Organizing Committee work
 * Assist Rachel with Program Committee work
 * Facilitation/coordination work
 * TechCom: Prepare weekly agenda; scribe weekly meeting; serve as back-up facilitator; other consultations as needed
 * Sunsetting working group
 * Code Health Group/Tech Debt SIG
 * Tech managers offsite
 * Coordinate cross-departmental work with Audiences (including projects like SoS rethink)
 * From original JD: Liaise with the Developer Relations team within the Community Engagement Department to provide a strong link between the external developer community
 * Other
 * Coach and meet with Tech managers as needed/helpful (on process, agile, interpersonal issues, etc.
 * Q2 goal: "Plan for when HHVM no longer supports PHP5" (assemble a plan through consultations with several teams)
 * Assist and fill in for other Technology Program Manager(s) as needed
 * Attend weekly Scrum of Scrums (and watch for items of interest to TechCom, as well as Audiences/Technology interactions)
 * Serve as a bidirectional communications bridge between CTO and Tech managers
 * One-off projects as needed, such as:
 * Assisted putting together a presentation for the board
 * Shepherd completion of Google Technical Projects doc
 * Shepherd completion of All Hand/Dev Summit travel approval sheet
 * Attend (could have facilitated) a debrief of a major train interruption
 * Participate in discussions about "10% time" policies
 * From the original JD: Manage our Developer Wishlist program