Senior Program Manager

Job Overview

As a Senior Program Manager, you will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations leaders to shape strategic priorities and ensure execution excellence across the index business. You will drive initiatives from strategic rationale and business case development through to planning, delivery, and performance measurement—ensuring alignment to FTSE Russell’s growth, resilience, and operational effectiveness objectives.

• Lead the development of investment cases for growth, innovation, and operational resilience initiatives, forming a critical part of the annual FTSE Russell Investment Planning Process.
• Contribute to the creation of the global product roadmap, ensuring strategic alignment and cross‑functional input.
• Conduct ongoing assessments of the global indexing landscape to inform prioritisation, competitive positioning, and forward strategy.

• Partner with Product Owners, Regional Heads, and Global Product Leaders to scope, validate, and execute new commercial opportunities that accelerate the growth agenda.
• Translate strategic ideas into actionable delivery plans with clear KPIs, milestones, and economic impact assessments.

• Embed within Scrum teams to support delivery (stand‑ups, demos, retrospectives, backlog refinement), ensuring teams have clarity on Sprint goals and remain aligned to broader roadmap objectives.
• Manage cross‑team dependencies, risks, and delivery constraints; shape rollout and deployment strategies across Product, Engineering, and Operations.
• Identify process gaps and operational inefficiencies, driving root‑cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.

• Build and maintain a streamlined reporting framework to support multiple governance forums (Scrum rituals, Steering Committees, Investment Committees, Board reporting).
• Leverage automation and data visualisation to enhance transparency of progress, risk, and impact.

• Experience in programme management within Trading, Banking, Asset Management, or Financial Index products.
• Hands‑on experience in driving large enterprise‑wide transformation programmes.
• Demonstrated strength in financial planning, resource allocation, cost governance, and risk management.
• Excellent senior stakeholder engagement, with the ability to influence decision‑making across matrixed organisations.
• Superior organisational skills with strong problem‑solving and analytical capability.
• Proficiency working with financial data, Jira, Excel, and expert‑level PowerPoint skills.
• Delivery‑focused self‑starter able to manage multiple initiatives across diverse work streams simultaneously.
• Experience of driving complex initiatives with geographically dispersed cross‑functional teams, in both Waterfall and Agile environments.

Manager

LSEG is committed to offering competitive Compensation and Benefits. The anticipated base salary for this position is $147,700 - $246,100. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location, city and state. The role is eligible for an Annual Incentive Plan (AIP/“bonus plan”). Target AIP rates will be commensurate with role level and posted career stage. Individual salary will reflect job‑related knowledge, skills and equivalent experience.

LSEG roles (excluding internships and part‑time roles of less than 20 hours per week) are typically eligible for inclusion in our LSEG Benefits program, which includes offerings such as Annual Wellness Allowance, Paid time‑off, Medical, Dental, Vision, Flex Spending & Health Savings Options, Prescription Drug plan, 401(k) Savings Plan and Company match. LSEG’s Benefits plan also includes basic life insurance, disability benefits, emergency backup dependent care, adoption assistance, commuter assistance, etc.

LSEG is a proud equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We can accommodate applicants’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs, as required by applicable law.