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About the Role

Leads and ensures effective strategic program execution in alignment with deliverables. Creates and implements policies, procedures, and processes for effective program execution. Responsible for providing effective leadership, developing, and managing team members to successfully deliver strategic deliverables on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

Drives, monitors, and manages the successful execution of technology-intensive products, ensuring the program stays on time and within budget.
Proactively monitors project execution performance compared to target, anticipates emerging problems, identifies solutions, and actively engages team members to implement solutions.
Establishes best practices, templates, policies, tools, and partnerships to expand, mature, and improve effectiveness in support of business objectives.
Provides effective leadership and develops and manages a highly engaged, high-performance team ensuring effective delivery of program milestones and outcomes in terms of cost, schedule, budget, and quality.
Builds a team of like-minded practitioners who understand your values and methods.
Develops and implements roles, responsibilities, processes, and procedures that are comprehensive from initial ideation through to in-market realization.
Manages multiple aspects of interrelated project workstreams to ensure the overall program is aligned to and supports the achievement of strategic business objectives.
Monitors project execution performance compared to target and reports on project results, metrics, tests, and deployment activities.
Challenges partners to define realistic schedules and drive the process, ensuring deliverable owners are meeting their committed outcomes while looking ahead to identify emerging blockers and proactively managing risks.
Engages external partners to assess their schedules and constraints, integrate impacts and dependencies into overall planning to ensure success.
Evaluates resource capacity and constraints, builds program resource models, prepares estimates and detailed project plans for all phases of the project, and provides status reporting to capture program milestones, success criteria, deliverables, dependencies, and risks.
Owns the communication of program progress updates with executive leadership as well as cross-functional workstream leads.
Proactively mitigates issues and risks, creatively and analytically resolves problems by demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence.
Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Requirements

Typically requires completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Program Management, and/or Computer Science, or related field.
Experience in financial institutions or similarly regulated industries and/or software development processes with experience in systems build and run phases of the product lifecycle.
Minimum of 15 or more years of program/project management experience and proven people leadership experience in matrixed business and technical environments.
Prior experience related to product launch or large-scale technical product coordination.
Effective relationship building and team collaboration skills leading diverse, cross-functional teams.
Highly engaged, self-starter with ability to balance achieving results and fostering collaboration.
Proactive in identifying and driving process improvements within the organization to achieve higher levels of organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
Strong team player with ability to coach/mentor others within a PMO team.
Ability to lead and coach program/project managers in the successful delivery of the developed framework.
Possess excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, able to deal effectively with ambiguity and change.
Demonstrated experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies and all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology and tools.
Proven experience with modern B2B SaaS software development and product launch motions (sales, marketing, legal/compliance, operational readiness, customer engagement, etc.) - Paze specific qualification.
Background and drug screen.
Independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire.
Position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Skills

Agile methodologies
Waterfall methodologies
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
B2B SaaS software development
Product launch
Program management
Project management
People leadership
Relationship building
Team collaboration
Analytical abilities
Problem-solving

Location

Scottsdale
San Francisco
Chicago
New York
Phoenix, AZ
Washington, DC

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

15+ years of program/project management experience
Proven people leadership experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Program Management and/or Computer Science, or related field

Salary/Compensations

$188,000 - $235,000 (Phoenix, AZ/ Chicago, IL / Washington, DC)
$226,000 - $282,000 (New York, NY/ San Francisco, CA)

Benefits

Discretionary incentive plan
Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans
Company contributions to Health Savings Account (HSA)
Pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses
401(k) Retirement Plan with 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on first 6% deferral
Flexible Time Off for Exempt employees
Generous PTO for Non-Exempt employees
11 paid company holidays
Paid volunteer day
12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Maven Family Planning support

About the Company

Early Warning has powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and more.
As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Equal Opportunity

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws.
The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees.