Program Manager – UC Investments

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency, is seeking a Program Manager – UC Investments to join our Client's team.

Position Overview

The Program Manager will support Investments in advancing a portfolio of key digital initiatives related to artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and technology risk management. This position will work on-site at the headquarters in Oakland, a minimum of two days per week, as per the current company Policy, subject to change.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead planning, coordination, and tracking of Investments' digital initiatives.
• Facilitate discussions across technical, operational, and executive stakeholders.
• Develop charters, roadmaps, business cases, and progress reports.
• Lead assessments of technology that would benefit a dynamic investment group.
• Coordinate with systemwide partners and external vendors.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
• Establish repeatable program governance processes.
• Electively escalate bottlenecks and delegate responsibilities to the appropriate parties
• Develop and manage program budgets, track expenditures, and ensure optimal resource allocation.
• Define program success metrics, KPIs, and performance dashboards to track progress and demonstrate value.
• Develop and execute stakeholder communication plans, ensuring transparent and timely updates to all levels.
• Lead change management activities, including user adoption strategies, training programs, and organizational readiness assessments.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews and capture lessons learned to drive continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• 7-10 years of program management experience, preferably in technology, cybersecurity.
• Proven ability to manage large, dynamic, cross-functional programs and projects.
• Strong communication, relationship management and follow-up skills and ability to communicate clearly and consistently across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders, including executive briefings, roadmaps, and status updates.
• Experience managing data, cybersecurity programs and projects. AI experience is a plus.
• Understanding of program, project, governance, and security frameworks.
• Familiarity with cloud and security vendor ecosystems.
• Strong analytical and vendor evaluation skills.
• Ability to successfully navigate through ambiguity and assist Investments leadership with prioritization of initiatives.
• Demonstrated accountability and ownership in driving complex initiatives to completion with measurable outcomes.
• Experience with change management methodologies and driving organizational adoption of innovative technologies and processes.
• Track record of driving new processes and work streams to completion.

Preferred Qualifications

• Program management experience in financial services environments
• Knowledge of investment management operations, fiduciary responsibilities, and financial services regulatory requirements.

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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