IT Program Manager: Strategic Initiatives (Hybrid)

The Charles Schwab Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Sabbatical after 5 years

Parental leave and family benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

The Charles Schwab Corporation is seeking an experienced Project Manager within Schwab Technology Services (STS) Portfolio & Project Management to lead enterprise-wide initiatives. You will partner with business and technology leaders to drive strategic, large-scale programs, including product development, systems and tooling implementations, and process improvements.

You will orchestrate cross-functional teams, manage scope, timelines, budgets, and risk, and ensure outcomes deliver

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of project management experience, managing multiple medium to large, complex and cross functional projects.
• 5-8 years of experience with project management tools and artifacts, including MS Project, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, project budgets, change requests, status reports, etc.
• Direct experience managing extra large complex enterprise wide program.
• Demonstrated ability to mobilize and motivate teams, set direction and approach, resolve conflict, deliver tough messages with grace.
• Proven ability to quickly build relationships and earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders.
• BA/BS Degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for 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.
• Manages medium to large-scale 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 ongoing 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.

Skills

Stakeholder partnership

Matrix organization navigation

Clear communication

Business and technical acumen

Team player under pressure

Cross-functional dependencies

Financial data proficiency

Agile/Scrum

Problem solving

Decision making under uncertainty

Education

BA/BS Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Confluence

SharePoint

Job description

The Charles Schwab Corporation is seeking an experienced Project Manager within Schwab Technology Services (STS) Portfolio & Project Management to lead enterprise-wide initiatives. You will partner with business and technology leaders to drive strategic, large-scale programs, including product development, systems and tooling implementations, and process improvements.

You will orchestrate cross-functional teams, manage scope, timelines, budgets, and risk, and ensure outcomes deliver