Senior Technical Program Manager/Fintech/Banking/Hybrid/San Francisco

Motion Recruitment; San Francisco (CA); Híbrido; USD 124.000 - 179.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Motion Recruitment in San Francisco seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead a portfolio of technology initiatives in Fintech/Banking. The role focuses on on-time, on-budget delivery, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional leadership across technology, product, and risk teams.

This contract-to-hire position is hybrid, onsite Tue-Thu in SF, offering an opportunity to shape program governance, develop project plans, create dashboards, and report progress to executives.

Formación

• 7+ years in technical program management within a technology function.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across tech, product and risk.
• Proven ability to deliver complex programs on time and budget.

Responsabilidades

• Manage a portfolio of projects and support planning and prioritization.
• Lead initiatives through ideation, strategy, planning, delivery, and launch.
• Clarify complex requirements with stakeholders and define project scopes.
• Create and maintain project schedules with milestones, tasks, and critical paths.
• Develop dashboards and reports to track progress with metrics.
• Coordinate meetings and drive issue resolution across groups.
• Manage dependencies and remove obstacles to keep scope and deliverables.

Conocimientos

Stakeholder engagement

Project planning

Portfolio management

Executive communication

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile/SAFe experience

Educación

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering / MIS

Descripción del empleo

Our client, a leader in FinTech, is seeking a contract Technical Program Manager – Fintech/Banking. This is a hybrid role, Tue-Thu onsite in San Francisco.

6 months Contract to hire

Senior Technical Program Manager

The Technical Program Manager will be a key member of the Enterprise Program Management team responsible for managing a portfolio of projects and driving the execution of strategic, transformational initiatives for the organization. This individual will be responsible for stakeholder engagement and management, coordinating the planning and prioritization of initiatives within their portfolio. They will also develop project plans for critical projects and drive execution to ensure projects are delivered is on-time and on-budget.

To be successful, this individual must collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders across technology, business and risk management functions within the company and be able to manage multiple projects working in a fast-past environment.

What You’ll Do

• Manage a portfolio of projects and support the planning and prioritization process for the initiatives in accordance with the company Product Development Life Cycle process.
• Lead initiatives through ideation, strategy, planning, delivery, and launch.
• Consult and collaborate with stakeholders to clarify and define complex project requirements.
• Create and maintain a project schedule for each project by identifying and monitoring: overall project timeline/milestones, tasks, resources, task dependencies, and critical paths.
• Create dashboards and reporting to track project progress supported by metrics.
• Coordinate meetings, as needed, to initiate working sessions, resolve project issues, etc.
• Aggressively manage dependencies and impact, coordinate with other groups, and remove obstacles that stand between our team and business & customer success.
• Formulate project presentations for executive leadership on project status and decisions.
• Provide project leadership, direction and coaching to team members and project stakeholders, elevate and communicate project/program status, issues, and risks, and interface with platform vendor and leadership to ensure project remains on scope and deliverables are met
• Provide transparency and communication across the program team and amongst stakeholders.

About You

• Fanatical drive and ability to get things done to deliver value to the business.
• Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, relationship building skills conducive to collaboration; able to work well in a cross-functional, matrix management environment consisting of technology, product management and business functions.
• Attentive to details and highly organized.
• 7 years of proven technical program management experience within a technology function, leading cross functional teams.
• Able to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, environment where you must take on multiple responsibilities and do what it takes to get things done.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Management Information Systems preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in managing successful large, cross functional projects.
• Demonstrated experience with process & change management.
• Bonus points: Deep experience with Agile and Scaled Agile technology approaches a plus.