Principal Program Manager – Debit/Payments

Principal Program Manager – Debit/Payments

Requirements

• Bachelors’ Degree in Business Administration and Management
• 6+ years’ experience with Project Management, or related experience
• In lieu of a degree, 8+ years’ experience with Project Management, or related experience

Responsibilities

• Responsible for planning and overseeing product initiatives from inception to implementation while ensuring necessary functionality and flexibility aligned with the company’s long term objectives.
• Orchestrates workflows across teams and complex portfolios in a matrixed operating model.
• Partners with product and platform leads to develop the business case, scope the work, and ensure alignment on vision and strategy.
• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
• Organizes and enables collaboration and partnership across cross-functional teams, with internal and external partners, executes on architecture & product driven initiatives.
• Drives or assists in communications on strategic initiatives to help drive consensus, achieve clarity and solve business problems. Provide oversight & process guidance for activities.
• Facilitate and drive decisions from key stakeholders around financials, scope, risks and dependencies.
• Partner with product leads and platform leads to develop the business case and ensure alignment on vision and strategy.
• Provides leadership and guidance’s to teams/business units where there is no clear organizational ownership yet defined or where products/technology is not yet institutionalized or adopted.
• Drives or assists research and/or brainstorming sessions; helps promote a culture of innovation within the department. Translates ideas and concepts into an executable projects.
• Mentors and assists more junior team members

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ year of Debit Payments mastery (ISO8583, Settlements, Disputes, Fraud, Pricing, Fee Billing, Reporting)
• 2+ years’ Program Management delivering multiple programs from idea through client adoption
• Cradle to grave development and delivery of programs
• 2+ years’ Risk Management ownership experience
• 1+ year Program Management audit defense
• Advanced understanding of Lean flow accelerators (LSS Green belt, Black Belt, etc)
• PMP certification with 2+years’ real-world experience
• CBAP certification with 2+years’ real-world experience
• SAFe POPM certification with 1+ year real-world experience