Senior Program Manager

Eliassen Group; New York (NY); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Program Manager for an on-site role in New York, NY. You will lead a high-visibility financial services program, guiding multi-phase delivery within an Agile pod structure, partnering with Product Owner, BA, and Technology to align vision and delivery. W2 consultants receive Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k matching and life insurance.

Rate: $85.00–$89.00/hr. w2. You will drive integrated planning, risk and dependency management, and executive visibility to ensure

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading complex, multi-workstream programs in financial services or regulated environments.
• Proven expertise in integrated planning, governance, risk and dependency management.
• Executive communication and ability to distill complex information for decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own the program's critical path and milestones across all workstreams.
• Lead program governance cadence with visibility on decisions, risks and dependencies.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery forums to resolve dependencies and align milestones.
• Maintain an integrated delivery view across Agile pods and release readiness.
• Produce concise weekly program reporting and leadership materials.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Executive reporting

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Agile methods

Jira

Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Description:

On-site in New York, NY

Our client seeks a Senior Program Manager to lead a new, highly visible financial services program through multi-phase delivery. Operating within an Agile pod structure, this role will partner with the Product Owner, Business Analyst, and Technology to align on product vision, business rationale, solution design, delivery progress, and emerging issues. The Senior Program Manager will drive integrated planning, program-level risk and dependency management, governance, and executive visibility to ensure alignment, timely decisions, and coordinated delivery across workstreams.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $85.00 to $89.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Own the program's critical path and milestone baseline across all workstreams. Monitor progress, evaluate forecast changes, and initiate recovery actions when delivery is at risk.
• Lead program governance cadence. Maintain decision, risk, issue, and dependency visibility. Confirm ownership and commitments, intervening when accountability gaps threaten delivery.
• Lead cross-functional delivery forums across product, technology, operations, external partners, and stakeholders to resolve dependencies, align milestones and readiness, secure decisions, and maintain delivery commitments.
• Maintain the integrated delivery view across Agile pods, connecting team plans through cross-pod milestones, dependencies, release readiness, and forecast changes.
• Produce concise weekly program reporting and leadership materials that communicate progress, forecast changes, key decisions, and risks and dependencies requiring attention.
• Mentor and oversee the Junior PMO by delegating logistics and coordination tasks and reviewing outputs.

Experience Requirements:

• 8+ years leading complex, multi-workstream programs in financial services or another regulated environment.
• Proven expertise in integrated planning, critical-path and milestone management, governance, risk and dependency management, and executive reporting.
• Strong judgment in managing risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions, including effective escalation.
• Executive communication and influence with the ability to distill complex information into clear recommendations, decisions, and actions.
• Experience coordinating delivery across multiple Agile pods, including cross-team planning, release readiness, and dependency resolution. Strong working knowledge of Jira, Confluence, delivery dashboards, and roadmap tools.
• Ability to build sufficient product and operating-model knowledge to challenge assumptions, connect delivery activity to intended outcomes, and communicate implications accurately without owning product decisions.
• Proactive, pragmatic, and adaptable delivery leadership that applies proportionate governance and drives stakeholder decisions.