Program Manager, Technology Adoption – Key Initiatives
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Full Time
1 week ago
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Key skills
AILeadershipProject ManagementCommunication
About this role
Role Overview
Partner directly with the CEO and leadership team to translate strategic priorities into clear workstreams, milestones, owners, and deadlines.
Establish and manage an operating cadence across key initiatives, including weekly status reviews, leadership updates, adoption tracking, and issue escalation.
Drive accountability across departments by ensuring commitments are clearly documented, followed up on, and completed.
Prepare executive-level updates, decision memos, meeting agendas, dashboards, and operating reports as needed.
Identify execution gaps, bottlenecks, and organizational blockers, and work with leadership to resolve them quickly.
Serve as the business-side owner for adoption of Connor’s internal technology platforms, AI-enabled tools, and new operating workflows.
Work with business teams to ensure new tools are incorporated into day-to-day processes rather than remaining optional or underutilized.
Partner with technology and operations stakeholders to gather feedback, prioritize adoption blockers, and improve usability from a business-process perspective.
Develop adoption plans, training materials, communications, SOPs, and rollout playbooks for new tools and workflows.
Track adoption metrics, usage patterns, compliance with new processes, and business impact.
Project manage cross-functional initiatives related to platform rollout, workflow modernization, operational improvement, and AI-enabled service delivery.
Coordinate across subject-matter experts, delivery teams, technology resources, and leadership to ensure projects move forward with urgency.
Ensure that business requirements, operational workflows, and adoption needs are clearly communicated to technology teams.
Help prioritize work based on business value, client impact, workforce readiness, and executive direction.
Act as a central coordination point across teams to ensure employees understand what is changing, why it matters, and what is expected of them.
Reinforce adoption expectations across the organization and escalate non-adoption or process breakdowns where appropriate.
Support a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and technology-enabled execution.
Map current-state and future-state workflows across key business functions.
Identify opportunities to streamline manual processes, reduce duplication, improve data quality, and increase operational visibility.
Requirements
7+ years of experience in project management, operations, consulting, business transformation, Program Manager, program management, or a similar execution-focused role.
Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced, professional services, consulting, software, technology, or advisory environment.
Strong project management skills, including ownership of milestones, dependencies, timelines, risks, and stakeholder communication.
Proven ability to drive adoption of new tools, processes, systems, or workflows across a business.
Excellent executive communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex issues into clear updates, recommendations, and action plans.
Strong organizational judgment and ability to influence without relying solely on formal authority.
Comfort working with senior executives and holding teams accountable to agreed-upon priorities.
High degree of ownership, urgency, discretion, and follow-through.