Remote Senior Program Manager - Delivery & Strategy

Realityworks; Clayton (NC); Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

RW Thrive is seeking a Senior Program Manager to align major technology and software initiatives with strategy, delivering measurable results. You will drive delivery excellence across programs, provide portfolio visibility, and partner with leadership, teams, and vendors to maintain momentum.

This remote role requires leadership to navigate complexity, validate paths forward, and scale delivery through disciplined governance and data-backed decisions.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of progressive experience managing complex technology, software delivery, or enterprise programs.
• Experience managing action registers, backlogs, and integrated schedules.
• Experience running release-readiness, stage-gate, or comparable decision processes.
• Experience reporting program status, risks, dependencies, and delivery confidence to senior leadership.
• Proficiency with SQL or strong spreadsheet/BI skills to analyze program data.
• Expertise in software delivery, portfolio oversight, and driving initiatives from planning through release.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities using data-driven insights.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate priorities into executable program plans with owners, milestones, dependencies, and target dates.
• Build and manage integrated delivery schedules across multiple programs and external commitments.
• Own and maintain the action register as the single source of truth for commitments.
• Lead delivery governance cadence, monitor progress, and escalate risks as needed.
• Define and manage release, decision, and delivery gates with clear criteria and dates.
• Provide portfolio-level oversight of priorities and dependencies to support leadership decisions.
• Evaluate resource capacity and adjust allocations to meet delivery commitments.
• Establish and maintain program management standards, processes, tools, and reporting.
• Provide functional leadership to project and program management resources.
• Coordinate launch, release-readiness, and go-live activities, ensuring dependencies are managed.
• Develop evidence-based program reporting using SQL, spreadsheets, and BI tools to validate status.
• Continuously improve delivery processes, reporting, risk management, and practices.

Skills

Experience managing complex technology

Action registers / backlogs management

Release-readiness / stage-gate

Program status reporting to senior领导

SQL / BI data analysis

Software delivery & portfolio Oversig

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

SQL

Job description

RW Thrive is seeking a Senior Program Manager to align major technology and software initiatives with strategy, delivering measurable results. You will drive delivery excellence across programs, provide portfolio visibility, and partner with leadership, teams, and vendors to maintain momentum.

This remote role requires leadership to navigate complexity, validate paths forward, and scale delivery through disciplined governance and data-backed decisions.