Senior IT Project Manager- Digital Assets

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At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career.

Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

The Schwab Technology Services (STS) Portfolio & Project Management (PPM) organization partners with Business and Technology Leaders to prioritize and execute technology work for strategic business‑sponsored initiatives, enhancements, and standard technology operations.

Within this organization, this role supports the Client Trader / Digital Assets portfolio, including strategic initiatives across spot crypto, tokenization, digital assets, and related market infrastructure modernization.

As a Sr IT Project Manager
- Digital Assets
, you will be responsible for establishing and leading enterprise‑wide, cross‑functional strategic initiatives within the Digital Assets portfolio. Leading a variety of project types in the digital asset space, including the delivery of technology solutions, large‑scale application development, systems integration, operational efficiency improvements, process reengineering, and infrastructure upgrades and deployments that strengthen fraud prevention and response capabilities.

As Schwab transitions to a scaled agile model, this role requires a blend of traditional project managementexpertiseand scaled agilemethodologyexperience, partnering closely with business, technology, and risk stakeholders to deliver outcomes that reduce fraud risk and enhance client trust.

Position Responsibilities:

• Accountable for defining, planning, orchestrating, and delivering a given strategic initiative including business, operational, and information technology deliverables
• Ensures end results are of the highest caliber with a clearly articulated scope and quantifiable business benefit
• Directs large-scale, complex projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and partners
• Directly manages all aspects of the project life cycle and oversees all phases of a project
• Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, cost, and quality parameters
• Validates financial forecasts, cost assumptions, and provides on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures
• Works with resource managers to ensure that resource capacity planning is accurately forecast, and provides ongoing reconciliation of actual time spent against forecasts
• Defines and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan
• Handles risks and issues management for the project-level risks and interdependencies
• Partners with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to track Agile development milestones and support Agile practices as needed
• Manages team relationships to ensure effective delivery
• Facilitates problem-solving and resolves stakeholder conflict
• Teaches, coaches, and mentors team members to remove roadblocks and drive project execution

What you are good at:

• Proven ability to build a strong partnership and trust with stakeholders
• Ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization effectively & succeed within a highly collaborative culture
• Ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision both written and verbally
• Demonstrated sound business and technical acumen
• Focused and versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure
• Understanding of cross-functional dependencies and how they impact project execution
• Expertise with financial data and the technology, tools and processes that support work and projects/programs
• Expert…