Top Program and Project Management Jobs in Chicago, IL

Define, scope, and deliver multiple engineering projects while managing commitments, dependencies, resources, timelines, dashboards, and stakeholder communication. Translate business requirements into engineering tasks, identify tradeoffs, resolve conflicts, and maintain program visibility through completion. The role requires cross-functional collaboration with engineers and business partners, strong communication, and technical familiarity with agile tools. Experience with firmware, hardware-software integration, embedded or IoT systems, Terraform, Kubernetes, or GitOps is beneficial.

Owns the engineering organization’s strategic program portfolio across hardware, software, AI, platform, and cloud teams. Defines cross-functional program strategy, manages capacity and dependencies, drives high-risk global deployments and product launches, establishes reporting and governance standards, and briefs senior leadership. The role also mentors TPMs, resolves escalations, influences prioritization, and scales TPM processes across distributed engineering sites.

Leads cross-functional sales programs to achieve revenue targets, analyze performance, identify risks and opportunities, improve processes, and coordinate sales, finance, marketing, supply chain, and logistics teams. Builds financial models, develops recovery plans for underperforming partners, creates sales targets, presents executive updates, and drives strategic initiatives and process improvements.

Lead large, global new product development programs: build and run cross-functional teams, remove roadblocks, ensure NPD and business process compliance, present executive updates, provide NPD training, drive process improvements, and manage program metrics through commercialization.

Senior solution expert for Finance & HR enterprise applications who designs and owns SAP FI/CO solutions and integrations (Workday, Kronos). Leads major workstreams from requirements through go-live and hypercare, drives cross-platform problem resolution, defines change/test/release approaches, mentors analysts, and shapes the Finance & HR application roadmap and architecture.