Senior Technical Program Manager AI & Growth Initiatives

Phillips 66; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 181,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

VCIP bonus

401k match

Health benefits

Pension plan

Job summary

Phillips 66 is seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead complex technology initiatives that support commercial growth across the enterprise. This role converts business opportunities into governed, financially responsible, and executable AI initiatives; coordinates delivery across product, architecture, security, data, procurement, finance, and business teams.

The role connects strategy to execution, influences technical decisions without owning every engineering team, and remains accountable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5 or more years of experience leading complex technology projects or programs in a large, matrixed organization.
• 10 or more years of experience delivering projects involving multiple technology teams, business functions, vendors, and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional technology projects from concept through implementation and transition to ongoing support.
• Maintain central project plan and communicate updates to stakeholders regularly.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, solution options, delivery plans, and decisions for technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, budgets, resource plans, dependencies, risks, issues, and decision logs.
• Coordinate work across application, data, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, vendor, and business teams.
• Establish effective project governance, including status reporting, steering committee materials, stage gates, change control, and escalation paths.
• Manage delivery through the full project lifecycle, including discovery, design, build, testing, deployment, adoption, and benefits realization.
• Identify delivery risks early and drive timely mitigation and escalation as needed.
• Identify risks and opportunities to reallocate resources to improve delivery.
• Facilitate working sessions and decision forums to resolve complex priorities.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, information security, data governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Manage vendor and implementation-partner relationships, including deliverables and performance.
• Promote agile, hybrid, or waterfall methods based on project needs.
• Support portfolio prioritization by communicating investment requirements and expected business value.
• Lead retrospectives and apply lessons learned to improve delivery practices.

Skills

Leadership

Program management

Cross-functional coordination

Technical fluency

Enterprise architecture

Cybersecurity

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Phillips 66 is seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead complex technology initiatives that support commercial growth across the enterprise. This role converts business opportunities into governed, financially responsible, and executable AI initiatives; coordinates delivery across product, architecture, security, data, procurement, finance, and business teams.

The role connects strategy to execution, influences technical decisions without owning every engineering team, and remains accountable