Vice President, Strategic Initiatives Lead

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Vice President role leading major technology programs in Fidelity’s Architecture and Engineering team. Driving high-impact initiatives and operational optimization with executive leadership.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeBoston • Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $130,000 - $264,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PMP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Delivering enterprise thought leadership, strategic partnership, process improvements, and analysis expertise across product management, engineering and architecture teams to ensure we are creating and providing the maximum value.
Providing strategic and programmatic technical guidance across teams and business units to relay expectations and guidelines to manage timelines and deliverables.
Working closely with business and technical leaders, product managers, and development teams to advance program agendas that provide executive visibility, transparency, and alignment.
Maintaining a strong focus on continuous improvement to provide new and enhanced opportunities for alignment, future direction, and optimization across multiple Business Units.
Influencing others to align to new or evolving standards, best practices, and process improvements.
Designing key inputs and outputs of people and processes for existing and new routines such as QTR, MYP, QBR, Quarterly Plannings, etc.
Delivering clear, concise, executive-level reporting, communications, and documentation to address risks and issues.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred.
15 plus years of experience, ideally in program management, process improvement, consulting and/or business strategy and planning.
Program Management Institute (PMI/PMP) Certification strongly preferred.
Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to understand and resolve complex problems.
Demonstrated executive presence, verbal, and written communication skills.
Proficient influencing and program management skills to successfully drive complex company-wide programs across Business Units with critical dependencies.
Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Strategic professional with proven success working in large, matrixed organizations.
Able to translate strategy into action that drives clear, measurable, and sustainable outcomes.
Highly organized; can work under tight deadlines with strong attention to detail and quick turn-around.

Benefits

Comp & perks

comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support
market-leading retirement
generous paid time off and parental leave
charitable giving employee match program
educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career

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Hard Skills & Tools

program managementprocess improvementbusiness strategyanalytical skillscritical thinkingexecutive reportingdocumentation

Soft Skills

influencingcommunication skillsorganizational skillsattention to detailstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingexecutive presence

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeMBAPMI/PMP Certification