IT Project Manager

$115,100 - $150,000/Yr

Charles Schwab - Southlake, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Southlake, TX

1,001-5,000 employees

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The IT Project Manager at Charles Schwab is responsible for leading enterprise-wide, cross-functional strategic initiatives within the Schwab Technology Services (STS) Portfolio & Project Management (PPM) organization. This role involves managing a variety of projects, including product launches, application development, systems integration, and operational improvements, ensuring that technology work aligns with business priorities and delivers quantifiable benefits.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for planning, orchestrating, and delivering strategic initiatives including business, operational, and IT deliverables.
• Ensures end results are of the highest caliber with a clearly articulated scope and quantifiable business benefit.
• Manages medium to large-scale projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and partners.
• Directly manages all aspects of the project life cycle and oversees all phases of a project.
• Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed-upon time, cost, and quality parameters.
• Validates financial forecasts, cost assumptions, and provides ongoing reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures.
• Works with resource managers to ensure that resource capacity planning is accurately forecasted and reconciled against actual time spent.
• Defines and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan.
• Handles risks and issues management for project-level risks and interdependencies.
• Partners with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to track Agile development milestones and support Agile practices as needed.
• Manages team relationships to ensure effective delivery.
• Facilitates problem-solving and resolves stakeholder conflict.
• Teaches, coaches, and mentors team members to remove roadblocks and drive project execution.

Requirements

• 5-8 years of project management experience, managing multiple medium to large, complex and cross-functional projects, with emphasis on product development, systems, and technical environments.
• 5-8 years of experience with project management tools and artifacts, including MS Project, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, project budgets, change requests, status reports, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to mobilize and motivate teams, set direction and approach, resolve conflict, deliver tough messages with grace.
• Proven ability to quickly build relationships and earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders.
• Demonstrated, applied experience establishing and delivering complex projects.
• BA/BS Degree or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Background/experience in financial services industry.
• Experience with and understanding of various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum.
• PMP or PMI-ACP certification.

Benefits

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Health insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Sabbatical after every 5 years of service
• Tuition reimbursement