Program Manager

Program Manager

Remote role

Fulltime Opportunity

Not a Senior Role.

Must Have Skills:

Cyber Security, Use of AI, Program Management, Powerpoint.

Description:

• Develop and maintain an integrated master program plan across multiple workstreams, including milestones, dependencies, critical path, and cross-functional handoffs.
• Establish and manage a comprehensive program risk and issue register, including risk identification, impact assessment, mitigation planning, ownership, and escalation tracking.
• Consolidate workstream updates into clear, concise executive-level status reports for senior leadership.
• Standardize program reporting by defining common status metrics, reporting templates, data definitions, and governance routines across teams.
• Partner with workstream leads to ensure reporting is accurate, timely, and aligned to program outcomes, delivery milestones, and key decisions.
• Identify cross-workstream dependencies, timeline risks, and execution gaps, and proactively drive resolution.
• Prepare high-quality PowerPoint presentations and executive decks for VP meetings, weekly program reviews, and SteerCos, with a strong focus on clarity, narrative flow, and decision support.
• Translate detailed project data into executive-ready insights, including key accomplishments, risks, decisions needed, milestone health, and next steps.
• Facilitate governance forums by driving agenda development, collecting inputs, tracking action items, and following through on leadership decisions.
• Ensure program communications are consistent, professional, data-driven, and tailored to executive audiences.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of program management, PMO, or portfolio management experience in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Proven experience building integrated plans across multiple workstreams and managing program-level governance.
• Strong experience maintaining risk registers, issue logs, dependency tracking, and escalation processes.
• Demonstrated ability to consolidate large volumes of project information into executive-ready summaries and status reports.
• Expert-level PowerPoint skills with a strong ability to create polished, visually clear, and leadership-ready presentations.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills, with attention to detail and the ability to standardize reporting structures and metrics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for senior executives and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience facilitating SteerCos, executive reviews, or governance forums preferred.
• Experience working in large enterprise programs, transformation initiatives, or highly matrixed organizations preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required; PMP or similar certification preferred.

Success Profile

• Highly structured and disciplined, with the ability to bring order to complex, fast-moving programs.
• Comfortable operating at both the detailed execution level and the executive summary level.
• Strong business judgment and the ability to distinguish signal from noise in program reporting.
• Proactive, accountable, and comfortable driving follow-up across senior stakeholders and workstream owners.
• A polished communicator who can create clarity, alignment, and confidence in executive settings.