Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fastlane Lending Solutions is seeking a Lead, Strategic Program Management & Execution to deliver high-impact initiatives across the business. The role leads cross-functional programs involving partner integrations, product and technology implementations, pricing, and operational improvements, while aligning stakeholders and managing risks, timelines, budgets, and outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of Fastlane’s highest-priority strategic initiatives
- Translate strategic priorities into actionable project plans with clear milestones, owners, timelines, dependencies, decision points, budgets, and success metrics
- Drive multiple concurrent initiatives from concept through launch while maintaining focus on delivery, accountability, and business outcomes
- Establish practical governance routines, status reporting, issue tracking, and escalation paths that keep work moving
- Coordinate work across Product, Pricing, Technology, Operations, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Marketing, Executive Leadership, and other internal teams
- Align stakeholders around priorities, scope, timelines, deliverables, and decision rights
- Identify interdependencies across workstreams and proactively manage conflicts, resource constraints, sequencing issues, and timing risks
- Facilitate working sessions, project reviews, and decision meetings that create clear next steps and measurable progress
- Serve as a central execution lead for initiatives involving the bank partner, technology partners, data providers, vendors, and other external stakeholders
- Coordinate activities across organizations to support successful integrations, implementation projects, testing, launch readiness, and post-launch stabilization
- Ensure all parties understand deliverables, deadlines, dependencies, required approvals, and ownership expectations
- Escalate and resolve issues that threaten implementation schedules, budget discipline, partner alignment, or project outcomes
- Drive implementation of product enhancements, pricing projects, business process changes, and operational improvements
- Coordinate design, approval, implementation, testing, training, readiness, and launch activities across appropriate teams
- Ensure project teams have a clear view of open decisions, blockers, risks, budget impacts, and required actions
- Support leadership in prioritizing initiatives and sequencing work based on strategic impact, resource capacity, and delivery risk
- Proactively identify bottlenecks, unclear ownership, resource constraints, decision delays, process breakdowns, and competing priorities
- Lead structured problem solving to diagnose root causes and develop practical, actionable solutions
- Maintain momentum by driving timely decisions, clarifying trade-offs, and ensuring follow-through on commitments
- Escalate critical risks with clear recommendations, options, and mitigation plans
- Develop and own concise executive updates, project dashboards, decision documents, meeting materials, and implementation summaries
- Provide leadership with clear visibility into project health, timeline and budget status, risks, dependencies, and required decisions
- Maintain accurate project records, action logs, issue logs, and milestone tracking to support accountability and transparency
- Tailor communications for executive, operational, technology, partner, and vendor audiences
- Other duties as assigned by leadership
Skills
- Bachelor's degree required and 5+ years of experience leading strategic programs, business transformation initiatives, product implementations, partner integrations, or large-scale cross-functional projects
- Demonstrated success driving initiatives that require coordination across multiple internal and external stakeholders
- Experience managing technology implementation projects, vendor delivery, partner integrations, or complex operating model changes
- Exceptional organizational and project management capabilities
- Strong executive presence and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to influence without authority and drive accountability across organizations
- Experience developing project plans, governance structures, status reporting, executive updates, and decision documents
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication abilities
- Proficiency with project management tools, collaboration platforms, and structured delivery methodologies
- Experience within financial services, fintech, lending, banking, insurance, or another highly regulated industry is highly preferred
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Medical coverage starting on day one
- Company-matched 401(k)
- Fully remote position
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