About the Role
The Head of Mobility Program Management is a critical execution leader at WEX, partnering with Technology and Digital Mobility leadership to drive delivery accountability and accelerate execution. This role involves leading a team of Technical Program Managers to ensure the successful planning, execution, and delivery of key initiatives, maintaining WEX's position as a leading payments platform.
Responsibilities
- Co-develop the strategic roadmap with Technology and Digital leadership, ensuring rigorous alignment with business goals.
- Facilitate tradeoff conversations that validate technical feasibility and capacity, ensuring the organization prioritizes high-impact outcomes.
- Drive dependency resolution and escalate and unblock issues to increase delivery confidence.
- Orchestrate continuous planning rituals that bridge strategy and development.
- Establish automated, transparent visibility into program health through rigorous Jira data integrity.
- Prepare and leverage delivery metrics to drive decision making.
- Champion clear quality and governance standards for all plans.
- Ensure TPMs act as end-to-end owners who facilitate cross-functional alignment and process discipline.
- Coach your team to serve as orchestrators of AI-augmented workflows.
- Drive the maturity of our agentic development lifecycle by ensuring teams maintain foundational context, specifications, and data discipline.
- Focus on outcome-based visibility, showcasing progress against quarterly enterprise priorities.
- Build internal/external networks to break down organizational silos.
- Act as the "voice of the project" through automated reporting.
- Recruit, mentor, and retain top-tier technical talent.
- Foster an inclusive, mission-driven environment while continuing our talent transformation to expand the team's capabilities.
Requirements
- BS/BA Degree in technical/information science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of relevant experience in program management.
- At least 3+ years of experience in a leadership role overseeing a team of Technical Program Managers.
- Strong technical acumen with a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Ability to facilitate complex engineering discussions and bridge the gap between technical execution and business requirements.
- Proactively identify technical risks and dependencies.
- Expertise in Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, SAFe) and Atlassian suite of products.
- Experience in designing and executing agentic development lifecycle-aligned (ADLC) governance models.
- Proven ability to maintain rigorous data hygiene and leverage tool proficiency to drive automated, data-driven decision-making.
- Strong business acumen and industry awareness within Mobility products.
- Exceptional leadership skills with a proven track record of driving accountability for outcomes.
- Experience navigating complex organizational structures and coaching teams to bridge the gap between technical execution and business value.
Skills
- Program Management
- Technical Program Management
- Agile Methodologies
- Scrum
- SAFe
- Atlassian Suite
- Jira
- AI-augmented workflows
- Agentic development lifecycle
- Data Hygiene
- Data-driven decision-making
- Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Talent Development
- SDLC
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of relevant experience in program management
- 3+ years of leadership experience
Education Level
- BS/BA Degree in technical/information science or a related field, or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $180,200.00 - $206,400.00
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement savings plan
- Paid time off
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
About the Company
- WEX is a global commerce platform that helps businesses solve for operational complexities like employee benefits, managing and mobilizing fleets, and streamlining payments.
- With over 6,500 employees, we work with large and small companies in more than 200 countries and territories.
- We hire people who share our passion for continuous innovation and client service that is unparalleled in the industry.
- Offering comprehensive and market competitive benefits, our offerings are designed to support your personal and professional well-being.
- To learn more about our employee benefits, please click here.
Equal Opportunity
- WEX is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, disability or other protected status.
- WEX promotes a drug-free workplace.
- Qualified individuals with a disability have the right to request a reasonable accommodation.
- If you require a reasonable accommodation as a result of your disability at any point in the job application process, please submit your request through our Reasonable Accommodation Request Form.
