Senior Director - Strategic Program Management

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Leads and ensures effective strategic program (projects) execution in alignment with deliverables. Creates and implements policies, procedures and processes to ensure effective program execution. Responsible for providing effective leadership, develop and manage team members to successfully deliver strategic deliverables, on-time and within budget.

• Drives, monitors, and manages the successful execution of technology-intensive products, ensuring the program stays on time and within budget.
• Proactively monitors project execution performance compared to target, anticipates emerging problems, identifies solutions, and actively engages team members to implement solutions
• Establishes best practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand, mature and improve effectiveness in support of business objectives.
• Provides effective leadership and develops and manages a highly engaged, high-performance team ensuring effective delivery of program milestones and outcomes in terms of cost, schedule, budget and quality.
• Builds a team of like-minded practitioners who understand your values and methods
• Develops and implements roles, responsibilities, processes, and procedures that are comprehensive from initial ideation through to in-market realization
• Manages multiple aspects of interrelated project work streams to ensure the overall program is aligned to and supports the achievement of strategic business objectives.
• Monitors project execution performance compared to target and reports on project results, metrics, tests and deployment activities.
• Challenges partners to define realistic schedules and drive the process, ensuring deliverable owners are meeting their committed outcomes while looking ahead to identify emerging blockers and proactively managing risks.
• Engages external partners to assess their schedules and constraints, integrate impacts and dependencies into overall planning to ensure success.
• Evaluates resource capacity and constraints, build program resource models, prepare estimates and detailed project plans for all phases of the project as well as status reporting to capture program milestones, success criteria, deliverables, dependencies, and risks.
• Owns the communication of program progress updates with executive leadership as well as cross-functional workstream leads.
• Proactively mitigates issues and risks, creatively and analytically resolves problems by demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence.
• Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

• Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Program Management and/or Computer Science, or related field.
• Experience in financial institutions or similarly regulated industries and/or software development processes with experience in systems build and run phases of the product lifecycle.
• Minimum of 15 or more years of program/project management…