Director, Strategic Program Management

Job Description:

The Role

Are you an upbeat leader that thrives while working with teams to design and deliver exceptional products to clients?

The FIT organization is seeking a strong program leader to be responsible for leading activities associated with the delivery, readiness and overall execution of FI programs and FI and IWMS projects.

The role will require hands-on planning, program management and cross BU collaboration on large-scale, strategic program and projects. This individual will work closely with the executive sponsors, Product Areas and Stakeholders to ensure that the initiative stays on track and delivers value to our customers.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Demonstrated experience collaborating and building positive relationships within a sophisticated agile organization, ideally in financial services.

• Outstanding communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, with specific strengths in communicating with senior leaders.

• Ability to enable and drive synchronization and partnership between squads and program team for clear communication and effective execution.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think through problems, assess a variety of factors and recommend solutions.

• Flexibility and the skill to both lead and contribute to workstreams are a must.

• Consistent track record leading sophisticated programs by balancing execution, priorities, dependencies, risk factors, compliance to regulatory and internal controls while meeting client expectations.

• Strong attention to detail as well as effective time management abilities

• Demonstrated self-starter that thrives in an independent environment

• Relevant program management and technology leadership focus is significantly beneficial.

• Demonstrated ability working within a product management, project management team or relevant experience is preferred.

• Assimilate business needs with operational, technical and readiness requirements of a program.

• Drive and enable strategic programs within Fidelity Institutional and across Fidelity within our agile framework.

• Partner with business unit partners, domains, product areas, business owner(s), and technology teams to develop scope and project tasks. Developing realistic, workable iterative plans, identifying dependencies and risks and providing transparency to leadership around progress.

• Provide leadership and oversight associated with balancing customer expectations during iterative development, coordinating customer communications, and implementing effective governance.

• Liaise with legal, risk, compliance, and audit as required.

• Champion standard tools and agile ways of working (e.g., JIRA Align) to run program activities, track dependencies, create qualitative and quantitative executive reporting.

• Liaise with initiative executive sponsors to ensure continued alignment with initiative’s objectives.

• Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

The Team

Fidelity Institutional Technology enables business partners to win in their respective marketplaces by designing, building, and maintaining technology platforms and products for Fidelity Institutional (FI). FI offers investment insights, strategies, and solutions, as well as trading and prime brokerage services, to a wide range of wealth management firms, asset managers, and institutional investors.

Strategic Enablement partners with strategy, business and technology leaders to construct and complete programs that maximize value for FI and its customers. We believe that the most impactful results happen when professional role expertise and business expertise converge to produce a well-informed business outcome. Mix in a strong sense of community and you have an organization that can deliver software solutions that are flexible to meet the needs in the constantly evolving landscape that we compete in and provide the best customer experience for our clients.

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Category:

Program/Project Management

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.