Project Manager, Charles River Development, Assistant Vice President

Role Overview We are seeking a Project Manager (AVP) to lead complex, cross-functional product initiatives within Middle Office and Investment Accounting. This role is responsible for driving delivery across multiple work streams spanning Product, Engineering, and Operations, with a strong focus on governance, dependency management, and execution discipline.

The Project Manager acts as the central point of coordination for product development initiatives, ensuring alignment between business requirements, product strategy, and engineering delivery. The role combines hands-on execution with strong stakeholder engagement and delivery oversight.

Why this job is important to us Charles River Development brings together data and capabilities across the investment lifecycle to help our clients make better decisions, grow at scale, and deliver returns for their clients. Our diverse team of highly skilled technologists and professionals are agile thinkers and problem solvers, committed to our end users and engineering excellence. We use mentorship and teamwork to impact and drive our business forward every day.

By joining the Middle Office team, you will use advanced technology and critical thinking to challenge the status quo and drive results. At Charles River Development (CRD) we’ve been creating some of the most insightful and complex asset management technologies since 1997. Through our commitment to product quality and operating through a client-focused lens, we’ve experienced continuous growth. Charles River IMS is strategically aligned to innovate the future of investment management technologies.

Together with State Street’s middle and back office capabilities, Charles River’s cloud-deployed software technology forms the foundation of State Street Alpha℠Responsibilities Project & Delivery Management 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 work streams

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

Governance & Execution Discipline Lead project governance activities, including status reporting, milestone tracking, and structured stakeholder updates

Prepare and facilitate governance forums, ensuring clear visibility into progress, risks, and dependencies

Enforce delivery standards and project management best practices across work streams

Drive corrective actions and interventions where delivery is off-track

Stakeholder Management Act as the primary point of contact for senior stakeholders on project status, risks, and key decisions

Build alignment across business, product, and technology stakeholders

Communicate complex project status clearly and concisely to management and executive audiences

Qualifications & Experience
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…