Responsibilities
- Build and scale the Program Management Office, including organizational structure, role definitions, career paths, and leadership layers, while maintaining a high hiring and onboarding bar during rapid growth
- Establish scalable, lightweight standards for planning, delivery, and reporting that improve consistency and outcomes without slowing teams down
- Adapt delivery models, processes, and tooling to support increasing organizational size, complexity, and geographic distribution Strategic Partnership & Execution
- Partner with executive leadership to translate strategic goals into executable programs and projects
- Establish visibility into priorities, capacity, dependencies, risks, and delivery progress
- Define and operationalize meaningful metrics to improve predictability, transparency, and decision-making
- Lead and evolve operational practices in scaled environments while adapting frameworks to organizational context People Leadership
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Technical Program Managers and Program Managers, including hiring, coaching, mentoring, and succession planning
- Advocate for PMO capacity, workload, and professional development with senior leadership
- Create an environment of psychological safety, continuous improvement, and shared ownership during periods of growth and change Organizational Influence & Change Leadership
- Navigate and align stakeholders with differing priorities and opinions, driving clarity and decisions with diplomacy and conviction.
- Communicate clearly with executives about progress, risks, trade-offs, and required decisions
- Lead organizational change thoughtfully, challenging existing processes when they no longer serve the organization while respecting what works
Requirements
- 10+ years in program, portfolio, or delivery leadership roles, with at least 5 years of people management experience
- Proven experience building or scaling a PMO in a hyper-growth environment (startup scale-up or high-growth division)
- Demonstrated ability to design organizational structures, career ladders, and leadership layers, including experience with geographically distributed teams
- Hands-on expertise with execution and delivery frameworks, such as Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum, including experience adapting frameworks for different organizational contexts and operating at scale
- Experience with setting up and driving adoption of modern project management and productivity tools (Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, Excel/Google docs, genAI) to support prioritization, resourcing and delivery insights
- Strong human-centric leadership skills, including coaching, mentoring, and advocating for team with senior leadership
- Proven ability to influence across levels and functions without formal authority, with high emotional intelligence
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field
Compensation
The base salary range for this position is $250,000 to $300,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation, such as bonus compensation and other benefits. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.
“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program
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Equal Opportunity Employer
The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
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What We Do
Founded in 2007 by two machine learning scientists, The Voleon Group is a quantitative hedge fund headquartered in Berkeley, CA. We are committed to solving large-scale financial prediction problems with statistical machine learning. The Voleon Group combines an academic research culture with an emphasis on scalable architectures to deliver technology at the forefront of investment management. Many of our employees hold doctorates in statistics, computer science, and mathematics, among other quantitative disciplines. Voleon's CEO holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and previously founded and led a successful technology startup. Our Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research is Statistics faculty at UC Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. Voleon prides itself on cultivating an office environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and open thinking. We are committed to excellence in all aspects of our research and operations, while maintaining a culture of intellectual curiosity and flexibility. The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
