Program Manager

Drive Wealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices.

Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. Drive Wealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.

As a Program Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in driving releases and deliverables across high-impact initiatives. Operating within a Scaled Agile environment, you'll manage complex dependencies, ensuring seamless execution from planning to end-user adoption. This role requires team-building skills, as well as close collaboration with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver holistic and scalable solutions. You’ll join a high-performing Product Development team at Drive Wealth, focused on building best-in‑class investing infrastructure that powers global fintechs and banks.

This team drives strategic initiatives from concept to launch, ensuring that our products meet the needs of both partners and end-users. We work closely with engineering, operations, and compliance to bring investing products to life in a highly regulated and fast‑paced environment.

• Lead and manage scrum teams from strategy through execution and delivery, guiding multi-phase releases across engineering, product, compliance, and operations
• Run crisp and effective agile ceremonies, including standups, sprint planning, refinement sessions, and retrospective activities focused on self‑improvement
• Prepare scrum teams for quarterly PI Planning, including guiding them through the product intake process to create working tasks ready for development
• Develop clear goals and measurable outcomes while maintaining adaptability in a fastpaced, Scaled Agile environment
• Facilitate cross‑functional communication and decision‑making, ensuring alignment on priorities and trade‑offs across teams
• Assist technical leads and senior developers with release planning
• Drive operational excellence across programs and mentor squads on Agile best practices
• Work within the larger PMO of the organization to raise its level of agile maturity
• Coach teammates along the organizational journey towards agile transformation
• Use data to evaluate progress, highlight risk, and communicate program health to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Leverage tools like Jira, Confluence, and G-Suite to manage workflows, reporting, and communication

• 5+ years of program management experience, ideally in technical environments with multiple cross‑functional development teams
• Deep familiarity with Scaled Agile; CSM or similar Agile certification a plus
• Demonstrated success leading initiatives in fintech, trading, or brokerage verticals
• Proven ability to manage dependencies and deliver high‑impact releases in environments with multiple competing priorities
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with experience influencing across technical and business teams
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience

• Background in brokerage, wealth management, or regulated financial services
• Experience working with APIs…