Senior Program Lead, Mobile Payments & Partnerships

Early Warning; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Maven Family Planning

Discretionary incentive plan

Job summary

Early Warning seeks a senior project professional to own end-to-end delivery of complex mobile payment programs. You will coordinate across product, engineering, design, QA, compliance, and fraud to ensure timely, on-budget outcomes.

Lead cross-functional teams in a hybrid work model across major hubs, driving timelines for tokenization, PCI controls, and new payment method integrations while maintaining regulatory alignment and risk controls.

Qualifications

• Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Project Management and/or Computer Science or related field.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Typically a minimum of 8 or more years of progressive related experience managing large complex projects or programs
• Experience in financial institutions or similarly regulatory industries and/or software development processes with background in the data processing environment, application systems, and communication systems
• Strong team player with ability to coach/mentor others within an ePMO team environment
• Effective relationship building and team collaboration skills leading diverse, cross-functional teams on one or more, complex projects simultaneously
• Effective written, verbal, and presentation communication skills with ability to tailor to varying audiences. Confidence and poise to present at all levels effectively
• Highly engaged, self-starter with ability to balance achieving results and fostering collaboration.
• Proactive in identifying and driving process improvements within the organization driving efficiencies
• Demonstrated experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies and all aspects of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology and tools
• Background and drug screen

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple aspects of multiple interrelated project workstreams to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic business objectives
• Report on project results, metrics, test, and deployment management activities
• Work creatively and analytically to solve problems by demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence
• Participate in establishing best practices, templates, policies, tools, and partnerships to expand, mature and improve effectiveness in support of business objectives
• Coach team members on policies, procedures, and best practices
• Provide leadership for the project team by building and motivating team members to meet critical project milestones
• Prepare estimates and detailed project plans for all phases of the project as well as status reporting regarding project and program milestones, success criteria, deliverables, dependencies, and risks to all stakeholders up to and including executive leadership.

Skills

Project leadership

Agile & Waterfall

Stakeholder comms

Team coaching

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's in Business/PM/CS

PMP certification

Job description

Early Warning seeks a senior project professional to own end-to-end delivery of complex mobile payment programs. You will coordinate across product, engineering, design, QA, compliance, and fraud to ensure timely, on-budget outcomes.

Lead cross-functional teams in a hybrid work model across major hubs, driving timelines for tokenization, PCI controls, and new payment method integrations while maintaining regulatory alignment and risk controls.