Principal Program Manager

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

What You’ll Do

• Responsible for planning and overseeing product initiatives from inception to implementation while ensuring necessary functionality and flexibility aligned with the company's long term objectives.

• Orchestrates workflows across teams and complex portfolios in a matrixed operating model.

• Partners with product and platform leads to develop the business case, scope the work, and ensure alignment on vision and strategy.

• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You’ll Do It

• Organizes and enables collaboration and partnership across cross-functional teams, with internal and external partners, executes on architecture & product driven initiatives.

• Drives or assists in communications on strategic initiatives to help drive consensus, achieve clarity and solve business problems. Provide oversight & process guidance for activities.

• Facilitate and drive decisions from key stakeholders around financials, scope, risks and dependencies.

• Partner with product leads and platform leads to develop the business case and ensure alignment on vision and strategy

• Provides leadership and guidance’s to teams/business units where there is no clear organizational ownership yet defined or where products/technology is not yet institutionalized or adopted.

• Drives or assists research and/or brainstorming sessions; helps promote a culture of innovation within the department. Translates ideas and concepts into an executable projects.

• Mentors and assists more junior team members

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics

• Bachelors’ Degree in Business Administration and Management

• 6+ years’ experience with Project Management, or related experience

• In lieu of a degree, 8+ years’ experience with Project Management, or related experience

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.

• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.

• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.

• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.

• Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have

• 1+ year of Debit Payments mastery (ISO8583, Settlements, Disputes, Fraud, Pricing, Fee Billing, Reporting) 

• 2+ years' Program Management delivering multiple programs from idea through client adoption

• 2+ years' Risk Management ownership experience

• 1+ year Program Management audit defense

• Advanced understanding of Lean flow accelerators (LSS Green belt, Black Belt, etc)

• PMP certification with 2+years' real-world experience

• CBAP certification with 2+years' real-world experience

• SAFe POPM certification with 1+ year real-world experience

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Apr-14-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

Compensation:

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $91,000.00 to $153,400.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compen