Director, Platform Programs

3 hours, 36 minutes ago
Full-time
Executive
Project and Program Management
Mercer Advisors

Mercer Advisors

Mercer Advisors provides comprehensive wealth management services, including financial planning, investment management, and family office solutions, aimed at simplifying and enhancing the financial lives of its clients through a holistic and customized...

Capital Markets
251-1K
Founded 1985

Description

  • Own quarterly and annual roadmap planning, connecting business goals, squad capacity, and delivery commitments.
  • Prepare executive updates, facilitate sprint demos and retrospectives, and connect planned work to shipped outcomes and lessons learned.
  • Design and manage the end-to-end development process, from intake and requirements through build, delivery, and scope approval.
  • Build and operate an intake and prioritization framework for feature requests, initiatives, and technical investments.
  • Define roles, responsibilities, estimation practices, and decision points across product, engineering, design, and data.
  • Track Platform delivery commitments, surface risks and blockers, recommend solutions, and drive follow-through.
  • Represent Platform priorities in cross-functional forums and support implementation of the full squad model.
  • Track development hours, team capacity, budgets, and resource allocation in partnership with finance.
  • Own Platform health metrics, including delivery velocity, planning accuracy, intake cycle times, uptime, and SLAs within scope.
  • Coordinate Platform requests with compliance, legal, finance, BI, people, customer experience, and advisor experience teams.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in program management, PMO leadership, or senior operations within a product or technology organization.
  • Experience building operating models and processes from the ground up, preferably in a transformation environment.
  • Deep knowledge of agile product delivery, software development workflows, roadmap planning, and prioritization.
  • Experience designing and managing trusted intake, scoring, and prioritization frameworks.
  • Experience running quarterly planning, sprint demos, retrospectives, and executive-facing reporting.
  • Strong command of sizing and estimation methodologies across teams.
  • Skilled facilitator and decision-driver with experience leading technical and business stakeholders.
  • Proactive escalation and issue-resolution skills, including presenting context and recommended paths forward.
  • Experience with budget tracking, resource allocation, executive reporting, and cross-functional coordination.
  • Data fluency, including defining metrics, interpreting dashboards, and conducting independent analysis.
  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills across technical and non-technical audiences without positional authority.
  • Ability to work through ambiguity and competing priorities; financial services or regulated-industry experience is preferred.
  • Availability Monday through Friday, 8 AM–5 PM, with occasional early or late hours as needed.

Benefits

  • Total annual cash compensation of $175,000–$210,000 USD, including base salary and annual bonus.
  • Company-paid life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
  • Medical, dental, vision, supplemental insurance, and HSA options with company contributions.
  • 14 company-paid holidays, including a full week off at Thanksgiving, plus generous paid time off.
  • Paid parental leave of 8 weeks, family medical leave, maternity benefits, and adoption assistance.
  • 401(k) plan with traditional and Roth options, per-pay-period matching, and an after-tax option.
  • Employee assistance, concierge caregiving services, pet insurance, and personalized financial planning at preferred pricing.

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