Program Manager 1

Mastercard • O'fallon, MO

3d • $55,000 - $88,000

About The Position

The Program Manager 1 role provides coordination and execution support at the division level, ensuring that strategic initiatives are planned, organized, and delivered effectively. This role is responsible for managing the flow of work, aligning priorities, and maintaining structure across efforts that support the executive leadership office. It emphasizes organizing development and implementation activities, driving clarity in timelines and deliverables, and supporting operational rhythms that enable leaders to make informed decisions efficiently. In practice, this role contributes to the leadership office by bringing discipline to planning, guiding execution through structured processes, and ensuring that milestones and cross‑team activities remain on track. It serves as a connective function—translating strategy into coordinated actions, maintaining oversight of execution progress, and helping remove blockers that could impede delivery. Through consistent operational stewardship, the Program Manager 1 strengthens execution excellence and supports the organization’s ability to deliver on high‑priority initiatives.

Requirements

• Strong written and oral communications
• Experience planning and organizing amidst changing and competing priorities
• Ability to represent team services with confidence to stakeholders and adjacent teams, organizing meetings and follow-up actions as needed.
• Competent in identifying, tracking, and mitigating needed actions, risks and issues across programs, ensuring proactive communication and escalation.
• Comfortable working across both business and technical stakeholders, translating needs and ensuring clarity of scope, outcomes, and priorities.
• Solid critical thinking skills to apply to issues and topics to decern actions.
• Highly organized with strong communication skills, able to simplify complex information and craft clear, actionable narratives for diverse audiences.
• Proactive and outcome‑driven mindset, with the ability to take ownership of ambiguous spaces and bring structure where needed.
• Bachelor's degree preferred (or demonstrated experience aligned to the position)
• Strong experience and familiarity with the Sharepoint suite of products, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Confluence, One Note or other tools for organization management a plus.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager