Senior Project Manager

SouthState Bank

Sr Project Manager leading the execution of banking payment initiatives and managing critical product deliverables at SouthState. Collaborating with enterprise teams to drive project success and strategic partnerships.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Owns and manages CFS project and product deliverable pipeline; maintaining documentation, facilitating prioritization and definition meetings.
Responsible for the planning and managing the execution of critical and integrated products/solutions involving Bank payment environments, technology integrating into those environments and building out pricing/marketing/documentation/etc. through partnerships with enterprise support teams and impacted product teams and Lines of Business.
Represents CFS and associate sponsored projects to key committees (i.e. Strategic Investment Committee and Enterprise Sourcing Committee).
Preparing presentation deliverables, defining/managing of project budgets to include expenses and revenue.
Working with Bankers of CFS and Treasury Sales Officers to understand market demands; Participating with client meetings, conferences and other industry channels to gather intelligence, use cases and viability of market demands.
Lead the full project lifecycle for payment initiatives and integration projects sponsored and funded by CFS.
Participate in other projects in these disciplines that have impact on CFS clients and product solutions.
Assists with the development of Business Strategies and Goals, helping with facilitating the research and defining as such, reporting on progress of those and assisting the President and Director with preparing any packages needed for funding and presenting to strategic committees.
Partner with Director of Enterprise Payment Strategy, Treasury, CTO and other critical partners to prioritize, define and execute initiatives.
Tracking on success, opportunities and return on investments.
Work with Enterprise Risk and CFS Business Risk Leader to complete Risk Assessments for sponsored projects and evaluating any owned products/platforms sponsored by CFS for Integrated Banking.
Support CFS Treasury Sales, Bankers and Director of CFS Admin in prospective sales, expanding client relationships and evaluating solutions for client needs.
Work with the Director to perform regular industry research aligned with Division Strategies and Goals, leading the Division through regular reviews of industry trends and impacts on the Division’s business objectives.
Work with the Director in researching and evaluating new vendors, partnership opportunities and building business cases for any projects and potential capital investment/expenditure requests.
Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree or comparable work-related experience.
10-15 years of Banking Experience (comparable experience in Payment Industry or FinTech verticals)
7-10 Years of experience in the Commercial Bank and/or Payments Industry
Proven experience with API’s, ERP’s and Integrated Corporate Banking
Experience in an Operational and/or Product organizations
Proven experience in working relationships with Commercial Customers, Matrix organizations and in a Highly Regulated environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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Hard Skills & Tools

APIERPIntegrated Corporate BankingProject ManagementBudget ManagementRisk AssessmentBusiness Strategy DevelopmentMarket AnalysisPayment InitiativesProduct Lifecycle Management

Soft Skills

LeadershipCommunicationFacilitationCollaborationStrategic ThinkingClient Relationship ManagementOrganizational SkillsAnalytical SkillsPresentation SkillsProblem Solving

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree