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

Job Description  

Our team is looking for fast-moving technical leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset. As an Principal Program Manager on Special Operations you will help drive Technology Transformation across Discover by identifying new features, products, and business opportunities and enable our business partners to realize their full potential. To be successful in this role, you should be an effective communicator, quick to learn new tools and systems, and flexible in the face of change.

This role will allow you to plan and oversee product initiatives from inception to implementation while ensuring necessary functionality and flexibility aligned with the company's long term objectives. You will orchestrate workflows across teams and complex portfolios in a matrixed operating model and you will partner with product and platform leads to develop the business case, scope the work, and ensure alignment on vision and strategy.

This role specifically sits within Discover’s Special Operations team, which is comprised of creative problem solvers and strategic software engineers who collaborate with our internal clients to understand their challenges and architect solutions. We are at the cross section of business and engineering helping teams within Discover to reach their goals by finding technology solutions to meet their needs.

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.

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.

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

Bonus Points If You Have

• Blue Prism RPA software
• RPA CoE (Center of Excellence) governance experience

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We are all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

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The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.