Program Manager

Summary

Join GoodLeap, a technology company revolutionizing sustainable solutions financing, as a Program Manager. You will lead and manage projects, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery. This role demands strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills to navigate a remote, multi-time zone environment. You will work with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and executive leadership. The ideal candidate possesses extensive program management experience in software development or related fields, along with proven success in project planning, execution, and risk management. A competitive salary and bonus potential are offered.

Requirements

• 3-8+ years in program management in software development, financial services, mortgage lending, or equivalent
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects from planning to launch in a remote, multi-time zone work environment
• Experience with project management best practices, agile development methodologies, portfolio-wide analytics, decision-making, and prioritization
• Must understand the software development lifecycle implicitly and collaborate with developers, product managers, creative teams & IT professionals, and both internal and external vendors
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to develop important relationships with key stakeholders, outstanding conflict management skills; strong influence, negotiation, and presentation skills. Demonstrated communication style & presence to work effectively directly with executive teams
• Strong time management skills

Responsibilities

• Ensure that every project/program you manage has SMART objectives/KPIs in place and delivers to them
• Every project delivers on its business objectives on-time, and on-budget
• Follow effective and efficient mechanisms, ceremonies, and tools for project planning, stakeholder analysis & communication plans, issue/ risk management, and change management
• Foresee dependencies, risks, and issues – building an understanding with program team of the differences and can demonstrate the effective management of them
• Exercise clear, direct, and tactful communication to ensure projects reach the appropriate teams, leaders, and audience, to eliminate the risk of surprise in the status of projects
• Build and maintain trust with the project team
• Lead by example in time management, efficiency, follow-through, and execution
• Learn from project retrospectives are analyzed and actioned to improve the current processes
• Suggest new or better ways to do things, advocate for, and add to the PMO repository
• Challenge, seek understanding if something does not make sense to ensure continuous improvement and innovation

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in business process engineering, implementation, and/or change leadership is highly desirable

Benefits

• $115,000 - $140,000 a year
• In addition to the above salary, this role may be eligible for a bonus