Pay range:

USD $110,100.00 - $165,000.00 / Year

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together.

Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.

In this role, you'll serve as a servant leader and connector across multiple agile teams, enabling transparent, predictable delivery of value and outcomes aligned to business strategy. You'll facilitate program-level planning and execution, help teams navigate dependencies and risks, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. If you're energized by collaboration, coaching, and removing roadblocks so teams can do their best work, this is a great opportunity to grow your impact while helping teams deliver meaningful results.

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as a servant leader who empowers teams to take ownership of their products, processes, and outcomes.
• Prepare the Agile Release Train (ART) for PI Planning by partnering with Product Management to shape product vision, roadmaps, and backlogs.
• Drive alignment between Technology and Product Management to establish and maintain a single, prioritized program-level backlog.
• Facilitate program-level events including PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, ART syncs, system demos, and Inspect & Adapt workshops.
• Enable successful PI outcomes by supporting creation of Program Boards and committed PI Objectives.
• Identify, track, and help resolve impediments, risks, and dependencies; escalate as needed to protect delivery flow.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by assessing ART agility and guiding improvements through Inspect & Adapt practices.
• Analyze and interpret program-level metrics to provide transparency into progress toward objectives and feature completion.
• Create and maintain PI Planning calendars and program timeboxes to support predictable execution.
• Coach the ART on agile practices, collaboration techniques, and technical agility (such as Continuous Integration and Behavior-Driven Development).
• Strengthen collaboration across teams, Architects, Quality Assurance, Application Development, and other technology partners.
• Partner with leaders and stakeholders to address bottlenecks, support economic decision-making, and encourage lean-agile budgeting.
• Promote collaboration and shared learning through Communities of Practice and active participation in the RTE community.
• Support cross-ART coordination and alignment to advance the organization's agile transformation journey.
• Model inclusive, collaborative, and servant leadership behaviors; facilitate conflict resolution across teams and stakeholders.
• Aid with economic decision-making by facilitating Epic estimation by teams and roll-up to program level visibility.
• Encourage lean-agile budgeting practice.

What you have

To ensure that we fulfill our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a business or technical related discipline, or equivalent work experience required.
• 2+ years of direct RTE Experience supporting a technology-related ART.
• 5+ Years of either Project Manager and/or Scrum Master experience.
• Strong experience working with Scaled Agile methodologies.
• Demonstrated agile mindset and servant-leader approach, with the ability to guide teams toward shared outcomes and delivery commitments.
• Working knowledge of scaled agile delivery practices and frameworks (Scaled Agile Framework, Scrum, and Kanban).
• Ability to facilitate program-level events such as PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, ART syncs, system demos, and Inspect & Adapt workshops.
• Ability to identify, manage, and help resolve impediments, issues, and risks; escalate when appropriate to protect delivery flow and outcomes.
• Ability to optimize flow and improve predictability by using program-level metrics and creating clear progress transparency.
• Strong facilitation, listening, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills; able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners.
• Ability to align stakeholders to product vision, strategy, and roadmap, and support prioritization decisions that reduce bottlenecks

Preferred Qualifications:

• Release Train Engineer Certification (preferred)
• Scrum Master certification or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) preferred
• Strong facilitation, listening and negotiation skills
• Superior mentoring, coaching and leadership skills
• Excellent communication, conflict resolution and team building skills

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified hired locations. This role is expected to be in the office 4 days a week.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities

What's in it for you

At Schwab, you're empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration-so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you - both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance