Project Manager

About the role

As a Project Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in driving objectives 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 excellent communication skills, as well as close collaboration with engineers, product managers, program managers, and stakeholders to deliver holistic and scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and cross-functional company initiatives from strategy through execution and delivery, guiding multi-phase releases across engineering, product, compliance, and operations
• Own the standard agile ceremonies for software development scrum teams including sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives, backlog grooming, and standups
• Define and track milestones, identify and manage technical and business dependencies, and ensure timely, high-quality deliverables
• Drive GTM strategy and implementations, working across nontechnical groups within organizations such as legal, sales, compliance, and operations
• Develop clear goals and measurable outcomes while maintaining adaptability in a fast-paced, Scaled Agile environment
• Facilitate cross-functional communication and decision-making, ensuring alignment on priorities and trade-offs across teams
• Maintain project plans, RAID logs, and other artifacts to describe the statuses and risk on project deliverables
• Direct requirements gathering and technical design sessions for the project team, including full-day onsite workshops
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering leads to ensure technical feasibility and alignment with customer and business needs
• Embrace AI-assisted tooling to improve project visualization and real-time reporting
• 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

Requirements

• 7+ years of project management experience, ideally in technical environments with multiple cross-functional development teams
• Background in brokerage, asset management, or payments processing
• 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

Nice to have

• Experience in Digital Assets, Web3 or Blockchain projects
• Experience working with APIs and embedded finance platforms
• CSM or similar Agile certification
• Familiarity with money movement, transaction handling, or compliance workflows

About the team

You’ll join a high-performing Product Development team at DriveWealth, 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.

Location

This role is open to candidates in New York, NY - Hybrid. This role is expected to come into the office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team. If you're not based in one of the locations listed above, this role is not a fit, and we cannot accommodate remote work outside these locations.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth does not sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Pay

Pay Range: $175,000 USD – $200,000 USD

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity
• 401(k) match
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness reimbursement
• Company-provided phone
• Personal development allowance
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and observed holidays