Bankrate is seeking a dynamic, innovative Senior Project Manager to lead the successful onboarding and expansion of their large enterprise partnerships. The role involves coordinating high-visibility projects across technical, creative, and business teams, ensuring the successful delivery of complex integrations and systems that drive growth for enterprise partners.
Responsibilities:
- Lead cross-functional plans for delivering complex integrations and systems that drive growth for enterprise partners. Own the project lifecycle from discovery to 'go-live.'
- Partner with business stakeholders to prioritize long-term strategic initiatives against short-term tactical needs, ensuring alignment with Bankrate’s financial services goals
- Lead meetings between engineering, product, legal and commercial teams to track milestones, manage dependencies, and ensure the 'Bankrate experience' is delivered flawlessly to the customer
- Assertively hold all internal and external parties accountable to strategic goals. Discover the 'true requirements' underlying partner requests and recommend alternative process approaches when necessary
- Build and maintain self-organizing systems using Jira, Asana, and Dashboards
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, and make trade-offs that balance business benefit with technical debt. Identify interdependencies across concurrent projects to prevent downstream collisions
- Provide regular progress reporting and tracking on all workstreams to senior leadership, acting as the primary point of contact for project health
Requirements:
- 5-8 years of Project Management experience, ideally in a customer-facing SaaS or Financial Services environment
- Proficiency in Asana, Slack, and Google Workspace
- Solid Understanding of the software development life cycle and creative production workflows
- Exceptional presentation skills; comfortable navigating complex conversations with external enterprise stakeholders and C-suite executives
- Demonstrated judgment and negotiation skills—you know when to push back and when to pivot to meet aggressive timelines
- A motivated leader who thrives in a team environment with representatives from multiple functional disciplines