Senior Program Manager, Operational Excellence

SoFi SoFi · Fintech · Jacksonville, FL · Ops WFM

Senior Program Manager, Operational Excellence at SoFi, a fintech company. This role focuses on advising senior leadership on vision and strategy, complex problem-solving, systemic innovation through experiments and pilots, handling critical escalations, building strategic partnerships, upskilling the organization, and leading risk identification and mitigation. Requires significant experience in Operational Excellence and the ability to operate autonomously and influence stakeholders.

What you'd actually do

  1. Advise leadership on the vision and strategy for the organization, exercising wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.
  2. Deconstruct extremely large, significantly complex efforts into straightforward implementation strategies, often tackling the hardest initiatives or unsolved problems within the function.
  3. Lead the development of experiments and pilots, making it "safe to fail" as part of the ideation and invention process to improve everything we do.
  4. Handle critical escalations that require sensitive solutions, such as those impacting brand trust, while independently driving priorities cross-functionally.
  5. Develop and leverage strategic partnerships to align highest-level stakeholders, including senior leadership and executive staff members.

Skills

Required

  • Operational Excellence
  • Program Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Risk Management
  • Leadership
  • Autonomy
  • Influence

Nice to have

  • PMP
  • CAPM
  • SCM certification

What the JD emphasized

  • solving unique problems with complex scope
  • deep understanding of how the specialization fits into and impacts the larger company objectives
  • operate autonomously in setting goals, deciding priorities, and running after problems without the need for direct supervision
  • maneuver through ambiguity and shifting priorities with ease while engaging and educating stakeholders on the strategic "why"