Project / Program Manager - Project / Program Manager III

Project / Program Manager III

This role manages difficult, cross-functional projects across multiple teams, partnering with stakeholders and managers to secure resources, scope efforts, and set project priorities aligned with program goals. You will drive crisp decisions and clear blockers while maintaining strategic trade-offs between time, quality, and resources. Working closely with organization leaders and pillar single-threaded leaders (STLs), you will transform business requirements into clear documentation, optimize cross-team processes, and ensure successful project outcomes. You will proactively identify and mitigate risks, manage program communication, and improve operational excellence across teams.

Success in this role requires strong business acumen, excellent stakeholder management skills, and the ability to influence decisions through clear, data-driven communication to senior leadership.

Key job responsibilities candidates must have :

• Strong understanding of performance improvement methodologies, root cause analysis, and change management is required.
• Demonstrated ability of executing multiple complex projects to successful completion is required.
• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams.
• Experience implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics.
• Experience building processes, project planning, and schedules.
• Experience using PM tools (i.e., Asana, MS Project, etc.).
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements.

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