Product Project Manager

Calculated Hire; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly pay

Job summary

Calculated Hire is seeking a Product Delivery Manager in Charlotte, NC to lead Digital Payments and Commercial Cards initiatives in a hybrid, 24-month contract role. You will guide cross-functional teams, oversee technology and product releases, and partner with Visa and MasterCard to ensure successful delivery.

The ideal candidate brings strong project management, release management, and stakeholder communication skills within a Commercial Card context, driving initiatives from planning to

Qualifications

• Experience in Commercial Card products, virtual cards, expense management, and payment ecosystems.
• Familiarity with issuer networks (Visa/Mastercard) and client-facing processes.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and dependencies.
• Experience creating and maintaining detailed project plans, milestones, risks, and issue logs.
• Proven ability to drive projects from initiation through implementation.
• Experience coordinating technology and product releases.

Responsibilities

• Lead project and release management for Digital Wallet and VCP initiatives.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and release plans across product areas.
• Facilitate scrum of scrum and track dependencies and impediments.
• Ensure Jira hygiene and standardized requirements/templates are followed.
• Act as SME for policy/procedure and support governance across teams.
• Produce status reports and contribute to product roadmaps for leadership.

Skills

Commercial cards

Virtual cards

Expense management

Payment ecosystems

Project management

Stakeholder management

Release management

Tools

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Job description

Product Delivery Manager - Digital Payments & Commercial Cards

Hybrid - Charlotte, NC

24-month Contract (W2), Weekly Pay (40 hours/week)

Desired Start Date: 8/20/2026

Job Description

In addition, this role provides project management leadership for the Digital Wallet and Virtual Card Program (VCP) initiatives.

The ideal candidate is a highly organized project and release management professional with strong Commercial Card industry experience. This individual will lead multiple strategic initiatives, coordinate cross-functional teams, oversee technology and product releases, manage risks and dependencies, and serve as a trusted partner between Product, Technology, Operations, and external partners such as Visa and MasterCard. Strong communication, stakeholder management, and execution skills are essential for success in this role.

Product Discovery (Intake, Customer Insight)

• Support intake and prioritization processes, establishing transparent and consistent methods for evaluating and onboarding new work into the product backlog.

Product Delivery (Planning, Prioritization, Delivery, Release)

• Ensure all defined JIRA standardization, requirement templates, and JIRA fields and labeling are implemented and followed within the teams for consistency.
• Create and manage a release plan
• Coordinate cross-functional activities, and cross-product areas, that advance the work owned by the Product Area, helping teams stay focused on delivering committed outcomes.
• Facilitates scrum of scrum with product, scrum and DDI leads to gather execution updates, blockers and dependencies.
• Track and manage intra and inter-product area dependencies, track and manage impediments to features/stories, coordinate testing approaches, and ensure necessary conversations between engineers across different teams are occurring,
• Manage all internal communication and or common groups (AD Groups, Distribution Lists, etc), ensure adherence to JIRA hygiene standards
• Fully understands outlined structure for Planning & Prioritization, prepares product teams for key activities and facilitates required forums with the right teams and stakeholders.
• Act as the ECM and GPL Policy/Procedure SME while ensuring team compliance

Product Reflect

• Contributes to status reports and product roadmap updates for larger leadership and product and delivery forums (BUR, etc)
• Support team sustainability and maturity, fostering trusted relationships across product area roles and helping teams evolve toward high performance and autonomy.
• Drive agile best practices and coordinates with other delivery coordinators to scale these practices across product areas.
• Identify gaps in agile practices and create effective training programs for iterative education and refreshers within teams
• Work with scrum masters to prepare accurate and detailed agile metrics and report discrepancies to delivery, tech and product leaders.

Required Skills

• Understanding of commercial credit card products, virtual cards, expense management solutions, and payment ecosystems.
• Familiarity with issuer, network (Visa/Mastercard), and client-facing processes.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and dependencies.
• Experience creating and maintaining detailed project plans, milestones, risks, and issue logs.
• Proven ability to drive projects from initiation through implementation.
• Release Management
  • Experience coordinating technology and product releases.
  • Ability to oversee quarterly or recurring release cycles, testing activities, readiness reviews, and stakeholder communications.
  • Strong ability to influence and collaborate across product, technology, operations, risk, compliance, and vendor partners.
  • Experience leading meetings, facilitating decision-making, and driving accountability.
• Business Analysis & Requirements Management
  • Experience documenting business requirements, user stories, process flows, and operational impacts.
  • Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.
  • Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
  • Ability to communicate complex product and technical concepts to diverse audiences.
  • Ability to identify, assess, and mitigate project risks.
  • Experience managing escalations and driving timely resolution of issues.
• Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to analyze operational, product, and technology impacts.

Preferred / Bonus Skills

• Experience with Commercial Cards, Virtual Card Programs, Digital Wallets, or Expense Management platforms (e.g., Wells One Expense Manager).
• Familiarity with Visa commercial payment products and release processes.
• Experience working within a large financial institution and navigating governance requirements.
• Knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar project tracking tools.
• Experience supporting product implementations, client onboarding, or product launches.