Sr. Program Manager, Enterprise Programs

Seattle, Washington, United States

At Pitch Book, a Morningstar company, we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate, evolve, and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. We’re deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement, energy, and fun that reverberates throughout the company.

Our extensive learning programs and mentorship opportunities help us create a culture of curiosity that pushes us to always find new solutions and better ways of doing things. The combination of a rapidly evolving industry and our high ambitions means there’s going to be some ambiguity along the way, but we excel when we challenge ourselves. We’re willing to take risks, fail fast, and do it all over again in the pursuit of excellence.

If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done, Pitch Book is the place for you.

We are excited to get to know you and your background. Concerned that you might not meet every requirement? We encourage you to still apply as you might be the right candidate for the role or other roles at Pitch Book.

The Program Management Office (PMO) ensures the successful execution of key cross functional initiatives of the company through effective program management. PMO Program Managers drive cross functional initiatives that are top priority for Pitch Book. The PMO also helps scale execution at Pitch Book by providing the following services ; establish guidelines and best practices for program management in the company through a Center of Excellence model;
Establish a program management community within Pitchbook that allows program managers across the company to collaborate, learn and share execution best practices;
Provides visibility into overall performance of strategic initiatives;
Orchestrates strategic planning processes of the company.

Pitch Book’s Senior Program Manager, Enterprise Programs drives strategic cross functional initiatives for the company. This role ensure that cross functional teams are driving towards defined program milestones and deliverables, removing bottlenecks, escalating risks/issues as needed, providing visibility to progress and overall ensuring effective collaboration across teams. The Pitch Book strategic planning process typically defines the various initiatives that this role will lead.

In thenear term this role is likely to lead programs that involve working cross functionally within Pitch Book and Morning Star to develop new capabilities as well as critical internal projects that support Sales, Customer Service & Revenue Operations.

• Be the Program Manager of key initiatives in the PMO’s portfolio responsible for leading the discovery, planning, scoping and implementation of these initiatives
• Work closely with key stakeholders, program and project sponsors and cross-functional teams to plan, scope, identify deliverables and required resources and timing for new initiatives
• Build a robust and achievable project plan; drive forecasting/estimation techniques to arrive at this plan; hold the team accountable to meeting key committed deliverables
• Define clear goals, prioritize the right work and use data to drive crisp decisions in partnership with stakeholders
• Ensure that requirements are established for the initiative
• Proactively identify and resolve risks, issues & conflicts affecting goal achievement, escalating when needed for resolution
• Manage cross-team dependencies, align roadmaps and unblock teams. Support planning activities that identify dependencies
• Keep the team, sponsor and relevant stakeholders informed on progress to goal
• Provide accurate and timely reporting of program status throughout its life cycle using tools recommended by the PMO to organize, track and manage programs
• Implement structure order and clarity to ambiguous problems with little direction or oversight
• Implement and adapt established program execution best practices recommended by the PMO
• Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors
• Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested

• 7+ years…