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Jordan Hayes

Principal Program Manager, Product Operations

Austin, TX · (512) 555-0193 · jordan.hayes.work@email.com

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Skills

  • Program governance

  • Roadmapping & dependencies

  • Launch readiness

  • Stakeholder comms

  • Vendor management

  • Metrics & reporting

  • Agile delivery

  • Change management

  • Risk management

  • Documentation

Summary

Program leader with 9+ years shipping cross-functional initiatives in SaaS and fintech. I connect product strategy to execution—clarifying scope, de-risking launches, and building operating cadences that keep design, engineering, and GTM aligned from discovery through cutover and post-launch stabilization.

Known for turning ambiguous mandates into sequenced roadmaps, dependency maps, RACI matrices, and exec-ready readouts. I run steering forums that surface tradeoffs early, document decisions, and keep partner teams moving when timelines slip or priorities compete.

Recent focus: identity and billing platform migrations, pricing & packaging releases, SOC 2 control work, and incident-driven process hardening across US and EMEA teams. Comfortable partnering with Legal, Security, Finance, and Sales Ops under fixed-date constraints.

Experience

Senior Program Manager

Brightline Software · Mar 2022 — Present

  • Lead multi-quarter platform programs spanning identity, billing, and admin APIs; coordinated 6 product teams and 40+ contributors with shared release trains, dependency maps, and weekly cutover rehearsals tied to customer contracts.
  • Cut launch slip rate by 27% by introducing a single readiness checklist, dry-run calendar, rollback owners, and comms templates for every customer-visible release; institutionalized postmortems for sev-2+ incidents.
  • Partnered with Legal and Security on SOC 2–related control updates; delivered evidence packs on schedule for two consecutive audits and reduced last-minute evidence scrambles by routing requests through a single intake queue.
  • Facilitated quarterly planning with Finance and Sales Ops; reconciled capacity forecasts with hiring plans, flagged dependency conflicts early, and reduced mid-quarter scope thrash by publishing a single source-of-truth roadmap.
  • Stood up cross-functional war rooms during peak migration windows; maintained decision logs and stakeholder updates so leadership could redirect funding or staffing within 48 hours when risks materialized.

Program Manager

Harbor Payments · Aug 2018 — Feb 2022

  • Owned card-present and ACH roadmap threads for a mid-market payments stack; translated regulatory deadlines into engineering milestones, customer comms, and support enablement assets.
  • Stood up a weekly risk review with Support and SRE; reduced sev-1 repeat incidents tied to config drift by prioritizing guardrails in the deploy pipeline and adding synthetic checks for critical routes.
  • Ran vendor evaluations for fraud scoring tools; led RFP scoring, POCs, security review packets, and contract handoff to Procurement with documented success criteria and rollout plans.
  • Partnered with Marketing and Compliance on customer-facing notices; ensured copy, timing, and support macros aligned before each mandated disclosure window.

Senior Business Analyst

Cedar & Co. Consulting · Jun 2015 — Jul 2018

  • Supported digital transformation workstreams for retail and logistics clients: current-state process maps, gap analyses, workshop facilitation, and benefits tracking against baseline KPIs.
  • Built executive dashboards in Excel and Tableau; trained client teams on refresh cadences, data definitions, and exception handling so leadership could trust week-over-week trends.
  • Contributed to proposals and SOWs; maintained traceability from statement of work to delivered milestones and change orders when scope shifted.
  • Facilitated working sessions between IT and business owners to prioritize backlog items and document acceptance criteria for high-risk integrations.

Education

The University of Texas at AustinB.B.A., Management Information Systems — Concentration: Operations; Honors thesis on rollout metrics and adoption curves

UT McCombs School of BusinessGraduate Certificate, Technology Commercialization — Capstone: GTM plan for B2B workflow tool

Coursera / university partnersMachine Learning for Business (audit) — feature definition, ethics, and model risk overview for PMs

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