VP/D Lead Technology Program Manager

OneMain Financial (OMF) is the largest non-bank lender in the United States. Technology underpins all aspects of OneMain’s business today and enables innovation that benefits our customers and colleagues. OMF Technology is a large corporate department, spanning many geographies and teams, delivering increasingly complex and cross-cutting initiatives that deliver best-in-class solutions to our customers, reduce cost and risk, and support high-availability operations. As the size and complexity of OMF Technology’s work increases, we need to increase our capacity both to maintain business process management consistency across the organization, and to drive transformation activities to sustain high-performing teams and reinforce a culture of success.

Job Overview

Reporting to the VP/SMD Head of Data & Front Office Technology, the VP/D Lead Technology Program Manager provides dedicated general management to a technology group that is leading the consumer lending industry with distinctive software and data innovation.  This role is a key enabler to drive commercial accountability and execution excellence by overseeing budgets, staff plans, roadmaps, and delivery programs.  This role also serves as a liaison to business and digital partners for strategy, roadmap, finance, and staffing.

The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills and strong abilities to lead, manage, and collaborate across a team of teams.  The role requires strategic thinking and disciplined execution to ensure local alignment with department objectives while leading efforts that drive team member engagement and operational excellence outcomes.

• This role works more independently and has built technical skills through experience and learning.  

• They will be responsible for execution of a complete task or multiple tasks within a project. They will work with junior staff to accomplish objectives.  

• This role will require less supervision but will require guidance from time to time. When successful, this individual will take ownership of a particular task and collaborate well with others to realize the expected outcome. 

• Operates autonomously and takes initiative to work on tasks with multiple priorities across the team. 

• Seeks opportunities to learn and take responsibility for larger segments of a project. Upholds the commitments to complete projects. 

• Establishes relationships and understands dependencies and risks for the project and how their contributions fit into the broader project. 

• Communicates clearly and is able to convey more complex information to technical experts inside the team. 

• Identifies gaps, proposes minor improvements to existing processes. 

• Challenges self to identify, learn, and adapt to new ways of working. Quality and automation are continuously top of mind and demonstrated in deliverables. 

• Uses effective critical thinking skills to tackle more complex problems and works with others to develop innovative solutions. 

• Strives to identify proactive measures for mitigating the recurrence of incident. 

• Considers multiple solutions to a problem before seeking guidance. 

• Collaborates with other teams and resolves issues within area of specialization with minimal supervision. Beginning to develop others on the team by sharing knowledge and training. 

• Demonstrates personal leadership to achieve individual and team success. 

• Takes initiative to complete tasks and shows willingness to help peers. 

General Skills: 

• 8 – 12 Years of program management experience 

• 3 – 5 Years of management experience 

• This role sets the strategy for and is responsible for the success of a portfolio of very complex programs that are comprised of multiple projects.  These projects are seen as essential to achievement of the Technology strategy. 

• They have stakeholder management and usually own the design and execution of the work.  

• They determine the agenda for their portfolio or program  and the resource needs. 

• They operate independently contributing to the overall goals of their organization through achievement of their objectives. 

• They will provide more junior staff work direction to accomplish objectives.  

• When successful, this individual will be seen as the thought-leader and owner of the outcomes of their efforts. 

• BS degree in a related field 

• Excellen