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About the Role
Schwab Technology Services (STS) Portfolio & Project Management (PPM) organization partners with Business and Technology Leaders to prioritize and execute technology work for strategic business-sponsored initiatives, enhancements, and standard technology operations. This role supports the Client Trader / Digital Assets portfolio, including strategic initiatives across spot crypto, tokenization, digital assets, and related market infrastructure modernization. The Sr IT Project Manager- Digital Assets will establish and lead enterprise-wide, cross-functional strategic initiatives within the Digital Assets portfolio, delivering technology solutions, large-scale application development, systems integration, operational efficiency improvements, process reengineering, and infrastructure upgrades. This role requires a blend of traditional project management expertise and scaled agile methodology experience, partnering closely with business, technology, and risk stakeholders to deliver outcomes that reduce fraud risk and enhance client trust.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for defining, planning, orchestrating, and delivering a given strategic initiative including business, operational, and information technology deliverables
- Ensures end results are of the highest caliber with a clearly articulated scope and quantifiable business benefit
- Directs large-scale, complex projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and partners
- Directly manages all aspects of the project life cycle and oversees all phases of a project
- Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, cost, and quality parameters
- Validates financial forecasts, cost assumptions, and provides on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures
- Works with resource managers to ensure that resource capacity planning is accurately forecast, and provides ongoing reconciliation of actual time spent against forecasts
- Defines and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan
- Handles risks and issues management for the project-level risks and interdependencies
- Partners with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to track Agile development milestones and support Agile practices as needed
- Manages team relationships to ensure effective delivery
- Facilitates problem-solving and resolves stakeholder conflict
- Teaches, coaches, and mentors team members to remove roadblocks and drive project execution
Requirements
- 8+ years of project management experience, managing multiple large, complex and cross functional projects, with emphasis on product development, systems, and technical environments
- 8+ years of experience with project management tools and artifacts, including MS Project, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, project budgets, change requests, status reports, etc.
- Experience with digital asset products highly desired, such as tokenization, stablecoin, custody, etc.
- Experience using AI tools to optimize your project management capability.
- Demonstrated ability to mobilize and motivate teams, set direction and approach, resolve conflict, deliver tough messages with grace
- Proven experience with and understanding of various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum
- Proven ability to quickly build relationships and earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders
- Demonstrated, applied experience establishing and delivering complex projects
- BA/BS Degree or equivalent experience
- Financial industry experience, preferably with digital assets (e.g. tokenization, crypto, custody, etc)
- Experience in a scaled agile environment
- PMP or PMI-ACP certification
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship.
Skills
- Proven ability to build a strong partnership and trust with stakeholders
- Ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization effectively & succeed within a highly collaborative culture
- Ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision both written and verbally
- Demonstrated sound business and technical acumen
- Focused and versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure
- Understanding of cross-functional dependencies and how they impact project execution
- Expertise with financial data and the technology, tools and processes that support work and projects/programs
- Expert understanding of various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum
- Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
- Ability to execute with limited information and ambiguity
Location
- On site
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years of project management experience
- Sr IT Project Manager
Education Level
- BA/BS Degree or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- Salary range not specified, but eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
Benefits
- Eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities
About the Company
- At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.