Principal, Project Manager – Career Ecosystem
About The Position
The Career Ecosystem team is leading Mastercard’s enterprise transformation to a skills-based organization—reimagining job architecture, workforce planning, and talent practices to better align skills with business strategy. The Principal, Project Management – Career Ecosystem plays a critical role in ensuring disciplined execution across this complex, multi-workstream transformation. Reporting to the Career Ecosystem Program Manager (Head of Global Skills-Based Workforce Transformation), this role acts as the central orchestrator across all program deliverables—driving alignment, visibility, and execution across HR, Technology, Product, Total Rewards, and regional stakeholders. This is a highly visible role requiring strong program management expertise, exceptional organization, and the ability to connect multiple workstreams into a cohesive, enterprise-wide delivery plan.
Requirements
- Extensive experience leading or managing large-scale, enterprise transformation programs with multiple workstreams and senior stakeholders.
- Deep expertise in program and project management, including integrated planning, dependency management, and governance.
- Highly organized with the ability to manage complex, fast-moving programs with multiple priorities and stakeholders.
- Proven ability to establish and scale project management standards, tools, and reporting frameworks.
- Strong track record of proactively identifying risks, solving problems, and driving execution in complex environments.
- Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complexity into clear, concise narratives for senior leaders.
- Experience operating within global, matrixed organizations, with strong influencing and stakeholder management skills.
- Tech-savvy with experience leveraging project management tools, reporting dashboards, and collaboration platforms.
- Collaborative, resilient, and proactive, with a mindset focused on continuous improvement and delivering enterprise impact.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting HR transformation, workforce strategy, or organizational change initiatives is a strong advantage.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with the Career Ecosystem Program Manager to drive execution across all program workstreams, ensuring alignment to transformation objectives.
- Develop and manage integrated program plans, including timelines, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables across multiple interconnected initiatives.
- Establish and embed standardized project management practices, tools, and reporting frameworks to drive consistency and transparency at scale.
- Provide a consolidated, real-time view of program health, including progress against milestones, risks, and interdependencies.
- Identify, assess, and proactively manage program risks and issues, ensuring timely escalation and resolution.
- Lead executive reporting and governance forums, translating complex program activity into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.
- Coordinate across workstream leads, project managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure clarity of deliverables, ownership, and accountability.
- Orchestrate multiple workstreams into a cohesive program narrative, ensuring alignment across job architecture, skills, and workforce transformation initiatives.
- Drive stakeholder engagement across a global matrix organization, influencing alignment and decision-making without direct authority.
- Identify and implement opportunities to enhance program execution, continuously improving processes, tools, and ways of working.
Benefits
- insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- flexible spending account and health savings account
- paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
- 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
- 401k with a best-in-class company match
- deferred compensation for eligible roles
- fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
- eligibility for tuition reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
