Senior Project Manager - Financial Services Delivery

State Street; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Insurance coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Incentive compensation

Performance-based awards

Job summary

State Street is seeking an experienced Project Manager (AVP) to lead cross-functional product initiatives within Middle Office and Investment Accounting in Massachusetts. You will drive delivery across Product, Engineering, and Operations with strong governance and execution discipline.

You will coordinate multi-workstream programs, align business requirements with product strategy, and provide clear status updates to senior leaders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of project or program management experience within financial services.
• Strong understanding of investment management workflows, including middle- and back-office processes.
• Proven experience delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives in a structured development environment.
• Proven ability to manage dependencies and drive delivery across multi-workstream programs.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior and executive audiences.
• Experience working closely with engineering teams in Agile or hybrid delivery models.
• Experience with Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with product development lifecycle processes.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of complex product and development initiatives from initial scoping through testing and release.
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and deliverables are clearly defined and tracked across Middle Office and Investment Accounting workstreams.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, including Product, Engineering, QA, and Operations, to ensure aligned and on‑track delivery.
• Drive issue resolution and risk mitigation, escalating where appropriate to maintain delivery timelines.
• Partner with engineering teams to align delivery timelines with product and client expectations.
• Drive planning and execution within Agile delivery frameworks, coordinating closely with scrum teams.
• Maintain traceability between business requirements, feature development, and release deliverables.
• Provide regular, concise project health updates to stakeholders.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Delivery management

Cross-functional leadership

Dependency management

Agile delivery

Executive communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

State Street is seeking an experienced Project Manager (AVP) to lead cross-functional product initiatives within Middle Office and Investment Accounting in Massachusetts. You will drive delivery across Product, Engineering, and Operations with strong governance and execution discipline.

You will coordinate multi-workstream programs, align business requirements with product strategy, and provide clear status updates to senior leaders.