Strategic Programs & Projects Lead

Confidential; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking a Senior Program and Project Manager to deliver large, complex initiatives across multiple product areas, serving as the single accountable owner for outcomes and ensuring alignment with strategic goals. You will lead cross-functional teams, manage scope, schedules, budgets, risks, and readiness, and drive governance and business adoption to realize measurable business results.

This role requires strong leadership, executive communication, and discipline across Waterfall

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of seven years of project management experience.
• Proven track record delivering large, complex projects on time and within budget.
• Experience managing multiple projects or related workstreams concurrently.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving business and technology teams.
• Experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, governance, and business readiness.
• Experience applying multiple project delivery methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile.
• Proven ability to lead at the program level while remaining grounded in formal project management discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, complex programs and technology projects spanning 30–60 product areas through the full project management lifecycle.
• Serve as the single point of accountability for project delivery, implementation readiness, and committed business outcomes.
• Develop integrated delivery plans covering scope, schedules, budgets, resources, dependencies, governance, and business objectives.
• Coordinate business and technology workstreams across multiple cross-functional teams.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects while maintaining alignment across related initiatives and product areas.
• Establish project milestones, deliverables, performance measures, and accountability requirements.
• Identify, assess, mitigate, and escalate risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.
• Manage project budgets, financial forecasts, staffing plans, capacity requirements, and resource allocation.
• Provide clear, outcome-focused status updates, recommendations, and escalations to executive leadership and key stakeholders.
• Facilitate governance meetings, executive discussions, decision-making, and issue-resolution activities.
• Ensure compliance with Delivery Excellence standards, governance requirements, project controls, and change management processes.
• Lead business-readiness activities, including operational transition, implementation planning, communications, training, and adoption.

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Confidential is seeking a Senior Program and Project Manager to deliver large, complex initiatives across multiple product areas, serving as the single accountable owner for outcomes and ensuring alignment with strategic goals. You will lead cross-functional teams, manage scope, schedules, budgets, risks, and readiness, and drive governance and business adoption to realize measurable business results.

This role requires strong leadership, executive communication, and discipline across Waterfall