
Technical Program Manager – Compliance Systems, Analytics
Western Union
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Denver • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $110,000 - $150,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Drive end-to-end delivery of several complex compliance technology initiatives across the organization.
- Manage multiple enterprise-level workstreams in parallel, aligning priorities, dependencies, and timelines.
- Ensure program objectives are met within scope and schedule.
- Translate regulatory and business objectives into program charters, operating models, and measurable outcomes.
- Orchestrate execution across global engineering, product, compliance, and operations organizations.
- Anticipate systemic risks across the portfolio and proactively realign resources, sequencing, and scope to keep strategic priorities on track.
- Serve as the connective tissue between executive sponsors, regional leaders, and delivery teams to ensure enterprise-wide alignment and adoption.
- Monitor and manage interdependencies across workstreams, teams, and sub-projects.
- Establish and chair program governance mechanisms (steering committees, architecture reviews, risk boards).
- Create, maintain, and socialize centralized information hubs for transparency and alignment.
- Ensure product and engineering roadmaps align with enterprise priorities, initiatives, and strategies.
- Develop executive-ready insights to support funding, prioritization, and trade-off decisions.
- Define the operating model for how compliance technology programs are executed across teams, geographies, and disciplines.
- Create and manage project plans to drive projects to completion and features to launch.
- Define requirements for reporting tools and dashboards to enhance visibility and decision-making.
- Design and maintain KPI frameworks that measure program health, program readiness, delivery predictability, and business outcomes.
- Create the ‘playbook’ of program management processes, tools, and dashboards needed to successfully execute within the portfolio.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in project, program, or technology business management roles.
- Experience leading complex, multi-year or multi-workstream programs across product, engineering, and business teams.
- Strong technical fluency in enterprise software platforms, distributed systems, or data/analytics architectures.
- Strong understanding of program management methodologies and philosophies (Agile, Lean, CPM, WBS, SDLC, etc).
- Ability to distill complexity and communicate effectively with both technical and business audiences to manage expectations.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- High sense of ownership, urgency, and ability to thrive in ambiguity.
- Highly organized, proactive, and solution-oriented with strong attention to detail.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, matrixed, global environments.
Benefits
- short-term incentives
- multiple health insurance options
- accident and life insurance
- access to best-in-class development platforms
- Medical, Dental and Life Insurance
- Tuition Assistance Program
- Parental Leave
- One day volunteer time off
- $0 Money Transfer Fee Discount Code – Quarterly Recognition Program
- “Game Changers” Employee Discount Program
- Global Adoption Assistance
- Global Scholarship Awards Program
- 401K plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
project managementprogram managementcompliance technologyenterprise software platformsdistributed systemsdata architecturesAgileLeanSDLCKPI frameworks
Soft Skills
communicationinfluenceownershipurgencyattention to detailorganizational skillsproactivesolution-orientedability to thrive in ambiguityability to distill complexity