Associate Program Manager

LendingTree • Charlotte, NC

69d

About The Position

The LendingTree PMO is your opportunity to drive innovation that helps people save money! We are responsible for building products that help people shop for loans and compare lenders, so they may make their best financial choices. We do this by partnering with Product, Technology, and other Business Teams to understand what our customers need and then develop the requirements and strategy to make the idea reality. Our goal is not only to help our customers save money but to make life easier during some of their most important moments.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of Program Management experience supporting the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and web-based products via agile frameworks.
• Experience translating requirements into executable plans.
• Experience building processes, program management frameworks, and schedules.
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.
• Fluency with Program Management Tools, including the Atlassian Suite (Confluence/JIRA).
• Excellent program and stakeholder management skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior or executive audiences.
• Experience managing programs cross-functionally with tech and non-tech teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
• Demonstrated success delivering value realization assessments for enterprise-level programs.
• Familiarity with prioritization frameworks and capacity planning models.
• Ability to lead via influence, utilizing previous experience to demonstrate value and affect change.
• Demonstrated ability to drive successful business outcomes in ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of a portfolio of Strategic Enterprise Programs and Technology-Focused Business Initiatives, working across technical and non-technical disciplines.
• Translate business requirements into clear execution plans, including scope, schedules, and deliverables.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, manage escalations, make tradeoffs, and balance business needs versus constraints.
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple teams with many competing priorities.
• Create clear and consistent reporting on program health, insights, and recommendations for all levels of the business up to and including executives.
• Build and manage relationships with stakeholders across Product, Technology, Creative, Sales, Marketing, Analytics, and Business Operations.
• Develop and implement scalable program management frameworks, creating consistency and providing commensurate levels of management and reporting to support the complete business.
• Establish and track KPIs, risks, and success metrics.
• Measure, assess, and iterate constantly to drive greater results.
• Drive continuous improvement, developing and championing processes for efficiency and to scale execution.

What This Job Offers