Lead Program Manager

Progressive Leasing is a leading provider of in-store and e-commerce lease-to-own solutions. As an almost 20+ year old FinTech company that has gone from start-up to industry leader, we know how to innovate, simplify, and value all people. We are a company founded on our grit and we are constantly looking to the future. As an ever-evolving group of entrepreneurs and technologists, we strive to do the right thing period in all aspects of our work. We are a subsidiary of PROG Holdings (NYSE: PRG), an exciting FinTech holding company, with three business segments including Progressive, Vive Financial, and Four, a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) platform.

Progressive Leasing is a leading provider of in-store and e-commerce lease-to-own solutions. As an almost 20+ year old FinTech company that has gone from start-up to industry leader, we know how to innovate, simplify, and value all people. We are a company founded on our grit and we are constantly looking to the future. As an ever-evolving group of entrepreneurs and technologists, we strive to do the right thing period in all aspects of our work. We are a subsidiary of PROG Holdings (NYSE: PRG), an exciting FinTech holding company, with three business segments including Progressive, Vive Financial, and Four, a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) platform.

We are currently hiring a Lead Program Manager (Remote) to help grow our company and ensure our mission is achieved!

This role is a work from home position and can be performed remotely anywhere in the continental US or in our corporate office in Utah.

Employee Value Proposition (EVP): PROG is dedicated to providing people with opportunity; opportunity for inclusive collaboration, opportunity for innovation, and opportunity for development.

WE ARE: Prog Tech embodies the modernity and transformational vision that is core to our business evolution. As passionate and hungry technical experts, we join together on the mission of progressing through technology. We believe in taking pride in our engineering, in the relentless pursuit of daily progress, and to bring others with you in your march to the future. We continuously experiment, fail fast, and constantly deliver.

YOU ARE: Responsible for managing initiatives cross-functionally across product and technology, business, and operational stakeholders. Proven track record in delivering projects and programs through the full project and development lifecycle is essential. We are seeking a high performer with an enterprise and product mindset, who demonstrates strength in emotional intelligence, problem solving, and polished communications, with a desire to deliver measurable success and quantifiable benefits.

YOUR DAY-TO-DAY:

• Leads and manages a set of critical and strategic projects
• Actively demonstrates command and fluency over the key drivers and tactical levers needed to drive individual project success, while ensuring overall strategic execution of the program vision, goals and objectives
• Establishes a robust project/program infrastructure and actively manages, drives governance, and ensures effective program and change management from planning, mobilization, requirements gathering, risk management, build and testing, through to delivery and the end retrospectives for individual projects within the overall project/program
• Continuously seeks ways to improve the effectiveness, quality and output of the overall portfolio leveraging voice of the customer, retrospectives, and data and insights. Identifies and implements value added improvements to optimize program performance
• Strong influencer with the ability to facilitate and build consensus and drive necessary activities and decisioning among a broad range of stakeholders including agile teams, business owners, product, technology, and operations
• Works well under pressure with the ability to take complex ideas, issues, and risks, and articulate them for a wide range of audiences in a clear and succinct manner both in verbal and written form
• Partners with and drives alignment across all levels of the project team structure, from product and technology, to impacted cross-functional business stakeholders and project sponsor
• The candidate will be expected to operate with the highest levels of professional maturity and serve as a role model for others while contributing to the positive culture
• Candidate is highly accountable, resilient and results oriented. You are viewed as a go-to person and trusted partner by your working team(s) as well as by your internal clients, sponsor, key stakeholders, and third-party service providers
• Identifies barriers to success early and implements approaches to overcome obstacles and mitigate risk; you serve as the first line of knowledge and escalation for your assigned project and program health related statuses, issues and challenges

• Creates appropriate stakeholder communications throughout the project including distilled status and messaging to the senior management team as needed

YOU’LL BRING:

• 6+ years proven track record in delivering complex, cross-functional programs comprised of enterprise level projects successfully, timely, and within budget
• 6+ years working knowledge and first-hand experience using a combination of the following project management methodologies: Agile Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall; familiar with the SDLC
• Technical experience with Jira, Confluence, PPM tools, MS Office/Office 365: Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio or LucidCharts
• Preferred PMP or CAPM; Agile certification(s) a plus
• Team player with strong interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills to build sustainable and productive partnerships
• Experienced and effective in operating within a diverse team comprised of team members and internal clients / stakeholders, located in multiple locations and time zones
• Strong organizational skills, a keen attention to detail, including the ability to coordinate, prioritize, and manage multiple complex activities
• Adaptable and able to shift as priorities change; equally comfortable navigating in undefined spaces with the ability to create clarity and meaningful results
• Self-starter with the ability to drive and influence others to achieve goals and perform with high quality
• Experienced in business case development and end-to-end financial estimating and project reporting required
• Experienced in creating strategic roadmaps to articulate the vision of program delivery a must
• Experienced and effective in the player/coach model
• High level of proficiency using Microsoft Office products (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
• Data and analytical experience a plus; possesses data visualization skills
• Ability to travel as needed

Progressive Leasing welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace. We do not discriminate in any aspect of employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Progressive Leasing does business.