Principal Project Manager
First Help Financial
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,093 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Help build a PMO
- Support the design and evolution of core PMO frameworks, including planning frameworks, intake, prioritization, and execution standards
- Build scalable operating mechanisms that improve clarity, accountability, and execution quality across teams and organizations
- Identify gaps in how the organization operates and implement solutions that raise the bar across teams
- Lead execution of the company’s most critical, cross-functional initiatives across Operations, Finance, Sales, Compliance, and Technology
- Take ownership of complex, high-stakes workstreams that require coordination across multiple senior stakeholders
- Drive clarity in ambiguous environments by defining scope, ownership, timelines, and success criteria
- Proactively manage risks, resolve blockers, and ensure delivery against company priorities
- Partner with senior leaders to shape how progress, risks, and outcomes are communicated
- Step into high-visibility workstreams that require clear, structured communication and strong business context
- Contribute to executive-level updates by synthesizing inputs from across functions into cohesive narratives
- Translate complex work into insights that support decision-making
- Partner with business leaders to define and refine KPIs tied to strategic priorities
- Ensure initiatives are clearly connected to measurable outcomes and business impact
- Bring structure to how performance is tracked, reviewed, and acted on across teams
- Act as a trusted partner to senior leadership, influencing decisions and driving alignment across competing priorities
- Lead high-stakes conversations with clarity and confidence
- Operate with a high degree of independence while staying closely aligned with PMO leadership.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional programs or initiatives at scale
- Track record of owning high-visibility work with senior stakeholder exposure
- Strong ability to connect execution to business outcomes and company priorities.
- Comfortable engaging with senior leaders on both strategic context and execution details
- Ability to synthesize information into clear, structured narratives for senior executive audiences.
- Experience contributing to executive-level updates
- Experience building or evolving ways of working across teams or organizations
- Strong judgment on effective planning, governance, and execution
- High EQ with the ability to build trust quickly and navigate complex stakeholder dynamics
- Comfortable operating with autonomy and driving outcomes without constant direction.
Benefits
- Great Perks – We offer generous salaries, competitive health and welfare benefits, paid vacation, 401(k) match, tuition reimbursement, quarterly social outings, monthly lunches, a robust employee recognition, and training development program to enhance your career with us.
- Culture - We are believers in maintaining a healthy work-life balance. While we work hard and care deeply about our customers and partners, we want you to have room for your family, friends, and yourself.
- Growth - Company growth provides unprecedented career growth. FHF’s extraordinary year over year growth in revenue and new markets provides opportunity for you to establish and develop your career growth. We engage each employee to build a career plan that benefits everyone and we have a proven record of investing in you.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
PMO frameworksplanning frameworksintakeprioritizationexecution standardsKPI definitionrisk managementstakeholder managementprogram managementperformance tracking
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvinginfluencetrust buildingautonomyclaritysynthesisaccountability