Senior Director - Strategic Program Management

About the role

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting‑edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses. Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Leads and ensures effective strategic program (projects) execution in alignment with deliverables.
• Creates and implements policies, procedures and processes to ensure effective program execution.
• Provides effective leadership, develops and manages team members to successfully deliver strategic deliverables, on‑time and within budget.
• Drives, monitors, and manages the successful execution of technology‑intensive products, ensuring the program stays on time and within budget.
• Proactively monitors project execution performance compared to target, anticipates emerging problems, identifies solutions, and actively engages team members to implement solutions.
• Establishes best practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand, mature and improve effectiveness in support of business objectives.
• Builds a team of like‑minded practitioners who understand your values and methods.
• Develops and implements roles, responsibilities, processes, and procedures that are comprehensive from initial ideation through to in‑market realization.
• Manages multiple aspects of interrelated project workstreams to ensure the overall program is aligned to and supports the achievement of strategic business objectives.
• Monitors project execution performance compared to target and reports on project results, metrics, tests and deployment activities.
• Challenges partners to define realistic schedules and drive the process, ensuring deliverable owners are meeting their committed outcomes while looking ahead to identify emerging blockers and proactively managing risks.
• Engages external partners to assess their schedules and constraints, integrate impacts and dependencies into overall planning to ensure success.
• Evaluates resource capacity and constraints, builds program resource models, prepares estimates and detailed project plans for all phases of the project as well as status reporting to capture program milestones, success criteria, deliverables, dependencies, and risks.
• Owns the communication of program progress updates with executive leadership as well as cross‑functional workstream