Investment Management Program Lead

State Street; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street is seeking an IM COO Program Manager to lead strategic initiatives across Investment Management pillars. You will govern programs, document requirements, manage plans and budgets, and ensure end‑to‑end delivery with SMEs and project managers.

The role requires experience in large programs, strong leadership, writing skills, and familiarity with tools like MS Project, Jira and Clarity. A PMP certification is preferred and an undergraduate degree in business, finance, or CS is

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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).
• 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.

Skills

Project management

Independent work

Creative problem solving

Urgency and prioritization

Leadership & communications

Business/Industry knowledge

Document delivery (PowerPoint, Excel,

MS Project, Jira, Clarity

Education

Undergraduate degree (Business/Finance/CS)

Excellent writing skills

PMP certification

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Clarity

Job description

State Street is seeking an IM COO Program Manager to lead strategic initiatives across Investment Management pillars. You will govern programs, document requirements, manage plans and budgets, and ensure end‑to‑end delivery with SMEs and project managers.

The role requires experience in large programs, strong leadership, writing skills, and familiarity with tools like MS Project, Jira and Clarity. A PMP certification is preferred and an undergraduate degree in business, finance, or CS is