COO - Program Manager, Vice President / SSIM

State Street; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 188,750; Full time

Job summary

State Street in Boston seeks a Program Manager for Investment Management to drive strategic initiatives across COO pillars and the IM CAO Strategic Program Management organization. You will govern projects, document requirements, and coordinate cross‑functional teams to ensure delivery of end-to-end solutions.

The role requires strong project management, leadership, and communication skills, with experience in MS Project/Jira/Clarity.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Business, Finance or Computer Science.
• PMP certification preferred.
• Strong project management experience.
• Excellent writing and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary interface with IM COO Product, Platform and Services pillars and the IM CAO Strategic Program Management organization to deliver strategic initiatives.
• Define, document and implement program governance in collaboration with technology and business teams.
• Capture requirements and determine how products are used to meet IM business needs.
• Develop and maintain project plans, status reports, and issue/action logs; manage scope and requirements.
• Lead governance meetings, set agendas, and document minutes to track progress and milestones.
• Coordinate resources, hours, and hiring; plan budgets and track program expenditures.

Skills

Project management

Leadership & communications

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Undergraduate degree (Business/Finance/CS)

PMP certification

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Clarity

Job description

Program Manager – Investment Management

What you will be responsible for

As a IM COO Program Manager you will:

• Be the primary face-off with the COO Investment Management Product, Platform and Services pillars and the IM CAO Strategic Program Management organization to deliver Strategic initiatives and drive to achieving IM Objective Key Results (OKRs). The Program Manager should be able to work with the technology and business to define, document and implement appropriate program governance.
• Understand/document requirements including the products being used in IM organizations to determine how they can be leveraged or eliminated. Ensuring the target state solution supports IM business requirements.
• Drive the joint and internal governance with all stakeholders. This includes the development and maintenance of project plans, status reports, issue and action logs and scope and requirements documents. Ensuring active issue management and facilitating decision‑making are critical to the role.
• Drive closure on all aspects of the program with support from the functional teams and SME’s, including: contracts and commercials, scope and solution, project sequencing and planning, development, testing, conversion and post conversion activities.
• Manage subject matter experts and project managers supporting workstreams to deliver the end‑to‑end solution.
• Lead and support governance meetings - set meeting agendas and document meeting minutes for meetings to discuss progress and address issues to achieve milestones and objectives for the execution of the plans
• Track resources, hours and hiring for resources, and rolling up globally with inputs from Global teams. Compile resource plans and program budgets.
• Actively communicate the status of work with other team members to ensure that everyone involved is fully informed.

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Project management experience on large complex programs
• Initiative and the ability to work independently or with a team
• Creative problem solving skills
• Strong sense of urgency when performing tasks and projects; ability to respond to shifting priorities
• Leadership and strong communications/relationship‑management skills
• Business/Industry knowledge, information technology acumen
• Ability to deliver professional documents - strong knowledge of “off the shelf” (PowerPoint, Excel, Word ). Working knowledge of MS Project, Jira and Clarity preferred.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree – with demonstrated interest in Business, Finance or Computer Science
• Excellent writing skills
• PMP certification preferred

Salary Range: $110,000 - $188,750 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid‑time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance‑based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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About State Street

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