Sr Project Manager- Agile Delivery

About This Role

This Project Manager will lead complex, cross-functional initiatives for Risk and Finance Town, ensuring alignment of business and technology objectives. The role involves driving planning, execution, governance, and stakeholder alignment while autonomously applying agile delivery practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional projects from initiation through deployment, ensuring alignment to scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations
• Oversee multidisciplinary teams and integrate business, technology, and vendor workstreams to achieve successful outcomes
• Collaborate with project sponsors and business leaders to define goals, success metrics, and deliverables
• Develop detailed plans, manage milestones and dependencies, and anticipate organizational impacts, including change-management needs
• Support agile or hybrid initiatives by facilitating core ceremonies and coaching teams on agile principles
• Partner with Product Owners to maintain a prioritized backlog and clear impediments
• Track and communicate performance using key agile metrics and promote transparency and continuous improvement
• Build strong relationships across technology, operations, risk, product, and business teams
• Provide timely, accurate, and executive-ready status reporting across all initiatives
• Identify and mitigate risks, issues, and interdependencies early

Requirements

• Expertise in project management methodologies and lifecycle delivery
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban, and agile performance metrics
• Strong ability to influence without authority and guide cross-functional teams
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, complexity, and organizational change
• Exceptional communication skills with an executive-ready presence
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, including using data to inform decisions
• Proven experience driving operational efficiency and delivery maturity

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred (Business, Technology, Engineering, or related field)
• 5+ years of project management or Chief of Staff–type experience; ability to manage multiple initiatives

Nice to Have

• Financial-services experience

Skills

* Required skills