Senior AI Portfolio & Program Manager

Charles Schwab; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid vacation and sabbatical after 5?y

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Charles Schwab is seeking a Senior Manager for AI Portfolio & Program Management to shape and govern a growing AI initiative portfolio across Operations, Technology, and Data. The role requires cross-functional collaboration, strategic insight, and hands-on governance to deliver measurable business value.

The position focuses on integrating AI investments with priorities, risks, and outcomes, and on providing executive-ready reporting and recommendations to senior leaders.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of AI initiatives and the data, privacy, risk, and governance considerations that influence delivery.
• Ability to manage complex, concurrent initiatives with clear priorities, milestones, dependencies, and accountability.
• Ability to connect AI investments and portfolio decisions to strategic priorities, business outcomes, and value realization.
• Ability to synthesize delivery, financial, capacity, risk, and outcome data to inform prioritization and investment decisions.
• Ability to define meaningful measures of portfolio health, progress, and realized value.
• Ability to anticipate risks, interdependencies, and constraints, driving timely resolution.
• Ability to build relationships and align diverse stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills for senior audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI portfolio management including intake, prioritization, governance, lifecycle standards, stage gates, and escalation processes.
• Maintain an integrated view of AI initiatives, investments, delivery capacity, milestones, dependencies, risks, and resources to support prioritization.
• Establish measures for initiative health, business outcomes, benefits, and realized value.
• Translate complex portfolio information into concise, executive-ready reporting and insights.
• Identify and manage portfolio risks, cross-initiative dependencies, sequencing conflicts, and delivery blockers.
• Partner across business, technology, data, risk, control, and AI teams to align priorities and outcomes.
• Influence decisions and drive commitments across a matrixed organization without direct authority.
• Incorporate responsible AI, data, technology, privacy, risk, and regulatory considerations into governance.

Skills

AI fluency

Portfolio leadership

Strategic thinking

Analytical thinking

Metrics & value mgmt

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Adaptability

Job description

Charles Schwab is seeking a Senior Manager for AI Portfolio & Program Management to shape and govern a growing AI initiative portfolio across Operations, Technology, and Data. The role requires cross-functional collaboration, strategic insight, and hands-on governance to deliver measurable business value.

The position focuses on integrating AI investments with priorities, risks, and outcomes, and on providing executive-ready reporting and recommendations to senior leaders.