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We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Director, Delivery Practitioner to join our Wealth Services team. This role is located in Jersey City, NJ or New York, NY.

**In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

Portfolio Alignment and Strategic Execution:

• Serve as a strategic partner across Product, Engineering, Quality Engineering, Operations, Scrum, and Client Enablement teams to ensure priorities are managed within a broader portfolio and program framework.

• Bring an enterprise mindset to align end-to-end capabilities, delivery objectives, interdependencies, and workflow requirements across multiple initiatives and workstreams.

• Ensure priorities are sequenced and executed as part of an integrated program strategy that strengthens value realization, execution consistency, and alignment to business objectives.

• Connect delivery efforts to broader portfolio goals by improving coordination across teams, aligning demand to capacity, and reinforcing focus on the highest-value outcomes.

Delivery Excellence and Governance Discipline:

• Drive structure, predictability, and accountability across delivery by establishing clear plans, maintaining backlog discipline, and using delivery metrics to provide transparent status, risk, dependency, and progress reporting.

• Strengthen execution rigor through active participation in agile ceremonies, PI Planning, and cross-team synchronization forums to ensure commitments, milestones, and delivery capacity remain aligned.

• Reinforce strong governance practices through disciplined JIRA management, audit-ready documentation, and consistent evidence of controls to support operational integrity and delivery quality.

• Improve delivery performance by proactively removing barriers, managing escalations, and ensuring teams remain focused on timely and effective execution.

Program Insight and Value Realization:

• Connect execution activity to strategic outcomes by maintaining visibility across platform capabilities, workflow dependencies, and evolving business priorities.

• Identify opportunities to improve prioritization, sequencing, and delivery impact across the portfolio by translating execution insights, process analysis, and stakeholder input into actionable recommendations.

• Create feedback loops that support roadmap alignment, inform trade-off decisions, and improve overall program effectiveness and business value realization.

• Help leadership make better decisions by providing a clear view of progress, challenges, and opportunities across interconnected initiatives.

Data-Driven Delivery and Continuous Improvement:

• Strengthen delivery outcomes through the disciplined use of performance metrics, OKRs, KPIs, and process insights to improve prioritization, surface risks early, and support data-informed decision-making.

• Ensure execution remains measurable, outcome-focused, and aligned to quality, efficiency, throughput, and business impact goals.

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement by sharing best practices, driving operational discipline, and supporting knowledge exchange across teams and communities of practice.

• Contribute to building a more agile, adaptive, and high-performing delivery organization through ongoing process optimization and learning.

**To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• 10+ years of relevant experience in portfolio management, program management, delivery leadership, product strategy, platform consulting, or related roles within fintech, wealthtech, or financial services.

• Proven experience leading delivery across complex, cross-functional environments, partnering effectively across Product, Engineering, QE, Operations, Scrum, and business stakeholders.

• Strong expertise in portfolio and program execution, including prioritization, dependency management, roadmap alignment, governance, and value realization.

• Practical experience with agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, backlog management, iteration planning, PI Planning, and delivery controls.

• Strong analytical and data literacy skills, including the ability to define and use OKRs, KPIs, journey maps, and visual insights to guide execution and measure results.

• Demonstrated ability to improve delivery excellence through structured planning, risk management, transparent reporting, and continuous improvement practices.

• Experience supporting AI/ML or Agentic AI-enabled initiatives with an understanding of responsible implementation, policy guardrails, and outcome measurement.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively across senior leadership, business partners, and technical teams.

• Strong structured problem-solving skills, including proactive risk identification, escalation management, trade-off decisions, and coordination across interdependent workstreams.

• A collaborative, resilient, and improvement-oriented mindset with a strong focus on execution, accountability, and measurable business value.