Project Manager, Charles River Development, Assistant Vice President

Role Overview

We are seeking a Project Manager (AVP) to lead complex, cross-functional product initiatives within Middle Office and Investment Accounting. This role is responsible for driving delivery across multiple workstreams spanning Product, Engineering, and Operations, with a strong focus on governance, dependency management, and execution discipline.

The Project Manager acts as the central point of coordination for product development initiatives, ensuring alignment between business requirements, product strategy, and engineering delivery. The role combines hands-on execution with strong stakeholder engagement and delivery oversight.

Why this job is important to us

Charles River Development brings together data and capabilities across the investment lifecycle to help our clients make better decisions, grow at scale, and deliver returns for their clients. Our diverse team of highly skilled technologists and professionals are agile thinkers and problem solvers, committed to our end users and engineering excellence.

We use mentorship and teamwork to impact and drive our business forward every day. By joining the Middle Office team, you will use advanced technology and critical thinking to challenge the status quo and drive results. At Charles River Development (CRD) we’ve been creating some of the most insightful and complex asset management technologies since 1997.

Through our commitment to product quality and operating through a client-focused lens, we’ve experienced continuous growth. Charles River IMS is strategically aligned to innovate the future of investment management technologies. Together with State Street’s middle and back office capabilities, Charles River’s cloud-deployed software technology forms the foundation of State Street Alpha℠

Responsibilities

Project & Delivery Management

• Own delivery of complex product and development initiatives from initial scoping through testing and release
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and deliverables are clearly defined and tracked across Middle Office and Investment Accounting workstreams
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, including Product, Engineering, QA, and Operations, to ensure aligned and on-track delivery
• Drive issue resolution and risk mitigation, escalating where appropriate to maintain delivery timelines
• Partner with engineering teams to align delivery timelines with product and client expectations
• Drive planning and execution within Agile delivery frameworks, coordinating closely with scrum teams
• Maintain traceability between business requirements, feature development, and release deliverables
• Provide regular, concise project health updates to stakeholders

Governance & Execution Discipline

• Lead project governance activities, including status reporting, milestone tracking, and structured stakeholder updates
• Prepare and facilitate governance forums, ensuring clear visibility into progress, risks, and dependencies
• Enforce delivery standards and project management best practices across workstreams
• Drive corrective actions and interventions where delivery is off-track

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary point of contact for senior stakeholders on project status, risks, and key decisions
• Build alignment across business, product, and technology stakeholders
• Communicate complex project status clearly and concisely to management and executive audiences

Qualifications & Experience

• 10+ years of project or program management experience within financial services
• Strong understanding of investment management workflows, including middle- and back-office processes
• Proven experience delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives in a structured development environment
• Proven ability to manage dependencies and drive delivery across multi-workstream programs
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior and executive audiences
• Experience working closely with engineering teams in Agile or hybrid delivery models
• Experience with Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Familiarity with product development lifecycle processes

Salary Range

$80,000 - $140,000 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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