Program Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Lead intricate, cross-functional programs from inception to execution, ensuring client and business acceptance, as well as stabilization.

• Develop and sustain actionable delivery baselines, plans, roadmaps, dependencies, milestones, ownership, estimates, and acceptance criteria.

• Unite Business, Product, Engineering, Delivery, Finance, and vendors into a cohesive executable pathway.

• Facilitate working sessions that yield accountable decisions, designated owners, due dates, and measurable results.

• Oversee risks, dependencies, issues, actions, decisions, and changes; drive the development of mitigation and recovery strategies.

• Integrate requirements across solution design, build/configuration, vendor deliverables, testing, defect resolution, acceptance, training/change impacts, readiness, deployment, and stabilization.

• Maintain scope, financial, and capacity baselines, including labor assumptions, vendor expenditures, variances, and estimates-to-complete.

• Generate precise forecasts, succinct executive summaries, and governance focused on decision-making.

• Appropriately utilize Program Execution controls, PPM, and AI-enabled automation.

• Keep knowledge-transfer materials updated and conduct complete transition and stabilization handoffs.

• Drive resolutions, take initiative, and recover any work that has fallen behind schedule.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of progressive experience in project/program management.

• Independent leadership experience managing complex cross-functional initiatives across Business, Product, Technology/Engineering, Delivery, and/or external partners.

• Capability to create a realistic, dependency-driven execution baseline from incomplete scope or fragmented team plans without constant oversight.

• Proven ability to resolve blockers, influence leaders without direct authority, and hold stakeholders accountable.

• Familiarity with risk, issue, action, decision, dependency, change, capacity, financial forecasting, and milestone management.

• Working knowledge of Product/PDLC, Engineering/SDLC, testing, implementation, client/business readiness, and acceptance processes.

• Flexibility to adapt across Agile, waterfall, and hybrid methodologies.

• Preferred experience in enterprise technology-enabled changes, operational enhancements, product launches, customer/client enablement, vendor integrations, or regulated initiatives.

• Preferred experience in organizational change, distributed delivery teams, and/or portfolio governance.

• PMP, Agile, or equivalent certification is preferred, supported by a successful track record in program delivery.

• Must possess work authorization in the Employing Country without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.

• Must successfully pass relevant background checks.

• Must participate in virtual interviews via video; a camera-on culture is in effect.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage starting from Day One.

• Wellbeing programs.

• Retirement plans with contribution matching.

• Generous time off policies.

• Parental leave.

• Opportunities for continuing education.

• Career advancement opportunities.

• Flexible working arrangements when feasible.

• Competitive total rewards package.

• Background check and hiring-process accommodations as necessary.

• Occasional travel to physical office locations may be required.