Technical Program Manager

Motion Recruitment; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 179,000; Part time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for a hybrid role in San Francisco to lead a Consumer Lending portfolio. You will drive planning, execution and delivery across technology, product, and risk teams on a contract-to-hire basis.

You will partner with stakeholders, create plans and dashboards, and guide multi-project initiatives to on-time, on-budget completion in a fast-paced FinTech environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of proven technical program management experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across technology, product and risk.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or MIS preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of consumer lending initiatives from ideation to launch.
• Develop project plans with milestones, resources, dependencies and timelines.
• Create dashboards and reports to track progress with metrics.
• Coordinate meetings and remove blockers to keep projects on schedule.
• Provide leadership and status updates to executives and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with technology, business and risk management teams.

Skills

Technical program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Project scheduling

Agile / SAFe

Executive communication

Education

Bachelors/Masters in CS/CE/EE/MIS

Job description

Our client, a leader in FinTech, is seeking a contract Technical Program Manager - Consumer Lending. This is a hybrid role, Tue-Thu onsite in San Francisco.

6 months + Contract to hire

Senior Technical Program Manager

This individual would be leading one of our Consumer Lending portfolios and projects with that portfolio.

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, escape 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.