Senior Program Manager

🚀 AVP Program Manager - Enterprise PMO | Consumer Banking

🌎 San Diego (5 days onsite)

⚡ $140,000 - $155,000 Base + 20-25% Bonus (Cash & Stock)

Company: Storm2's client is one of the top 5 highest performing publicly traded digital banks in the US - ranked 4th nationally by S&P Global and actively rewriting what modern banking looks like.

With 88 live projects across Consumer Banking including a full online banking platform rewrite and the introduction of crypto capabilities - they need a program leader who can own delivery, govern with discipline, and hold a team accountable.

Why this role & Why Now

• Scale: 88 concurrent consumer banking initiatives with more coming through active M&A
• Growth: The bank is planning to double in size over the next year - this is a real growth moment
• Transformation: Online banking platform rewrite + crypto launch + M&A integration all in flight simultaneously
• Visibility: Regular exposure to CEO, COO, EVPs and SVPs - this role operates at altitude

✅ Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end delivery across a complex consumer banking program portfolio
• Lead, coach and hold accountable a team of 7 Project Managers
• Establish and enforce PMO standards, governance frameworks and delivery discipline
• Serve as primary escalation point for program-level risks, issues and trade-offs
• Manage and forecast program budgets - CapEx, OpEx, variance reporting
• Deliver clear, fact-based, decision-ready updates to senior leadership
• Drive intake, prioritisation and capacity planning across the portfolio
• Partner with Finance, Technology, Risk and Compliance on cross-functional delivery

✅ Qualifications:

• 8–12+ years of program management experience in financial services or banking
• Proven experience formally leading and managing a team of Project Managers
• Hands-on delivery across Agile, Waterfall and hybrid environments
• Strong PMO governance discipline -stage gates, lifecycle controls, audit readiness
• Experience managing program budgets including CapEx vs OpEx and forecasting
• Executive presence - comfortable presenting to C-suite and senior leadership
• Experience with PPM tools - Daptiv, Planview, Jira Align, Azure DevOps preferred
• PMP, SAFe or equivalent certification preferred

✅ Why Apply:

• Own a portfolio of 88 projects at a critical growth moment for the bank 🚀
• Direct exposure to C-suite and senior leadership from day one 💼
• Exciting M&A activity -real transformation work 📈
• Join a top 5 performing public bank with $28B in assets and serious digital ambitions 🌍
• Competitive base + meaningful bonus split between cash and RSU stock 💸

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