Senior Program Manager (Financial Services)

Location: Work@Home in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, or New York, United States

Annual base salary: $114,480–$170,070 USD

Company

hirify.global is a financial services company focused on helping individuals and communities achieve better financial futures.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end planning, execution, implementation readiness, and reporting for complex projects and medium-to-large programs across business and technology areas.
• Translate business problems and expected benefits into objectives, measurable outcomes, delivery plans, milestones, and decision points.
• Manage budgets, forecasts, cost drivers, risks, dependencies, issues, quality, scope, and stakeholder expectations for programs typically valued at $8M–$15M.
• Lead cross-functional execution, remove barriers, resolve competing priorities, and escalate decisions before delivery or budget risks affect outcomes.
• Drive organizational readiness and change adoption, manage vendors when required, and communicate recommendations and trade-offs to sponsors and senior leaders.
• Improve delivery methodologies, standards, tools, reusable knowledge, and project management practices while coaching members of the project management community.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience leading large or significant projects or medium-to-large programs, typically with budgets of $8M–$15M.
• Expert knowledge of project, program, or portfolio management principles, governance, controls, tools, and delivery practices.
• Demonstrated success leading complex initiatives through highly matrixed, cross-functional teams across business and technology organizations.
• Strong financial acumen, including budgets, forecasts, cost drivers, trade-offs, and outcome-based investment decisions.
• Experience managing dependencies, risks, issues, organizational readiness, and stakeholder acceptance in dynamic environments.
• Ability to simplify complex problems, set priorities, make timely decisions, influence without direct authority, and establish credibility with senior leaders.
• Clear verbal, written, and presentation communication skills; sound judgment, resilience, autonomy, flexibility, collaboration, and accountability.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, project management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and professional experience.

Nice to have

• Financial services or management consulting experience, particularly in retirement or employee benefits.
• Experience leading business transformation, technology modernization, or enterprise change initiatives across multiple functions.
• Experience overseeing a business or technology portfolio and managing complex vendor relationships.
• PMP, PgMP, or an equivalent recognized project or program management certification.
• Master’s degree in business, technology, project management, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote Work@Home arrangement limited to the listed United States locations.
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
• 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions of up to 6% and an employer-paid cash balance retirement plan with a 4% contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 per year.
• 20 days of paid time off, nine paid company holidays, a flexible Diversity Celebration Day, and 40 hours of paid volunteer time annually.
• Inclusive culture emphasizing customer focus, critical thinking, teamwork, business acumen, and learning agility.