Project Manager, Charles River Development, Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities

• Project & Delivery Management
• Own delivery of complex product and development initiatives from initial scoping through testing and release
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and deliverables are clearly defined and tracked across Middle Office and Investment Accounting workstreams
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, including Product, Engineering, QA, and Operations, to ensure aligned and on-track delivery
• Drive issue resolution and risk mitigation, escalating where appropriate to maintain delivery timelines
• Partner with engineering teams to align delivery timelines with product and client expectations
• Drive planning and execution within Agile delivery frameworks, coordinating closely with scrum teams
• Maintain traceability between business requirements, feature development, and release deliverables
• Provide regular, concise project health updates to stakeholders
• Governance & Execution Discipline
• Lead project governance activities, including status reporting, milestone tracking, and structured stakeholder updates
• Prepare and facilitate governance forums, ensuring clear visibility into progress, risks, and dependencies
• Enforce delivery standards and project management best practices across workstreams
• Drive corrective actions and interventions where delivery is off-track
• Stakeholder Management
• Act as the primary point of contact for senior stakeholders on project status, risks, and key decisions
• Build alignment across business, product, and technology stakeholders
• Communicate complex project status clearly and concisely to management and executive audiences
• Qualifications & Experience
• 10+ years of project or program management experience within financial services
• Strong understanding of investment management workflows, including middle- and back-office processes
• Proven experience delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives in a structured development environment
• Proven ability to manage dependencies and drive delivery across multi-workstream programs
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior and executive audiences
• Experience working closely with engineering teams in Agile or hybrid delivery models
• Experience with Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Familiarity with product development lifecycle processes
• Salary Range:
• $80,000 - $140,000 Annual
• The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
• Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
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Qualifications

• Experience with Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Familiarity with product development lifecycle processes