Technical Program Manager
Your Opportunity
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. 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 location(s).
Schwab Technology Services provides innovative and reliable technology products and services that support how clients manage their money and access investing and financial planning.
As a Technical Program Manager, you will lead complex, cross-functional technology programs that advance business and technology priorities. You will connect engineering, product, architecture, operations, governance, and business partners to align roadmaps, manage dependencies, and deliver measurable outcomes across multiple teams.
Your ability to solve problems, assess tradeoffs, and facilitate timely decisions will help teams navigate risks and maintain progress. Through clear communication and adaptable program leadership, you will provide visibility into milestones and outcomes while supporting modernization, cloud, artificial intelligence, digital experience, and operational excellence initiatives. Success requires disciplined execution, strong collaboration, and the judgment to balance technical goals with evolving business needs.
The ideal candidate combines strong technical judgment, program leadership, executive communication, and the ability to drive alignment in a highly matrixed organization, empowering our clients, in a highly skilled and engaging environment.
What you have
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of project or program management experience leading multiple large, complex, cross-functional technology initiatives
- Demonstrated success delivering high-visibility initiatives with measurable business or customer outcomes.
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to understand application, platform, data, security, and operational dependencies.
- Proven ability to build trust and influence decisions across a highly matrixed organization.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level communication.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and escalate risks early.
- Experience with Agile and Scaled Agile delivery practices, including dependency management, forecasting, and Agile delivery metrics.
- Experience using project management tools and methodologies such as JIRA, Confluence and Rally to manage plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes
- Experience partnering with engineering and architecture leaders on technical programs
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong AI fluency and ability to assess AI use cases, clarify business value, identify constraints, and communicate trade-offs to technical and executive audiences.
- Experience leading cloud adoption, digital transformation, or operational excellence programs
- Experience driving AI adoption initiatives including both DevEx and external client facing initiatives
- Experience delivering digital products or platforms in financial services or another regulated industry.
- Experience using Rally
- Adaptability when managing changing priorities, dependencies, and business needs
In addition to the salary range, this role is 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
What you are good at
What you have
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of project or program management experience leading multiple large, complex, cross-functional technology initiatives
- Demonstrated success delivering high-visibility initiatives with measurable business or customer outcomes.
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to understand application, platform, data, security, and operational dependencies.
- Proven ability to build trust and influence decisions across a highly matrixed organization.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level communication.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and escalate risks early.
- Experience with Agile and Scaled Agile delivery practices, including dependency management, forecasting, and Agile delivery metrics.
- Experience using project management tools and methodologies such as JIRA, Confluence and Rally to manage plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes
- Experience partnering with engineering and architecture leaders on technical programs
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong AI fluency and ability to assess AI use cases, clarify business value, identify constraints, and communicate trade-offs to technical and executive audiences.
- Experience leading cloud adoption, digital transformation, or operational excellence programs
- Experience driving AI adoption initiatives including both DevEx and external client facing initiatives
- Experience delivering digital products or platforms in financial services or another regulated industry.
- Experience using Rally
- Adaptability when managing changing priorities, dependencies, and business needs
In addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
Why Schwab?
At Schwab, “Own Your Tomorrow” embodies everything we do! We are committed to helping our employees unleash their potential and achieve their dreams. Our employees get to play a central role in disrupting a multi-trillion-dollar industry, creating a better, more modern way to build and manage wealth. We’re a modern financial services firm that stands apart from the industry, where you can go as far as your ambition takes you.
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