Program Manager – UC Investments

Job Description

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency, is seeking a Program Manager – UC Investments to join our Client's team.

Program Manager –UC Investments

Position Overview

The Program Manager will support Investments in advancing a portfolio of key digital initiatives related to artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and technology risk management. This position will work on-site at the headquarters in Oakland a minimum of two days per week as per current Policy, subject to change.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead planning, coordination, and tracking of UC Investments digital initiatives
  
  

Facilitate development of repeatable program governance processes including governance meetings.

• Facilitate discussions meetings and agenda across technical, operational, and executive stakeholders.
• Develop charters, roadmaps, business cases, and status reports.
• Facilitate assessments of technology which would benefit a dynamic investments group.
• Coordinate with UC systemwide partners and external vendors when requested.
• Document risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate development of repeatable program governance processes.
• Effectively escalate bottlenecks and communicate issues to the appropriate responsible parties in a professional manner as a representative of the investment office
• Ensure optimal resource allocation.
• Document and report program success metrics, KPIs, and manage performance dashboards to track progress and demonstrate value.
• Develop and execute approved stakeholder communication plans, ensuring transparent and timely updates to all levels.
• Facilitate change management activities, including development of user adoption strategies, training programs, and organizational readiness assessments.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews and capture lessons learned to drive continuous improvement.
• Support UC Investments leadership with data-driven recommendations and decision support for prioritization efforts.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• 7-10 years of program management experience, preferably in technology, cybersecurity.
• Proven ability to manage large, dynamic, cross-functional programs and projects.
• Strong communication, relationship management and follow-up skills and ability to communicate clearly and consistently across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts to senior leadership and nontechnical stakeholders, including executive briefings, roadmaps, and status updates.
• Experience managing data, and cybersecurity programs and projects AI experience a plus.
• Understanding of program, project, governance, and security frameworks.
• Familiarity with cloud and security vendor ecosystems.
• Strong analytical and vendor evaluation skills.
• Ability to successfully navigate through ambiguity and assist UC Investments leadership with prioritization of initiatives.
• Demonstrated accountability and ownership in driving complex initiatives to completion with measurable outcomes.
• Experience with change management methodologies and driving organizational adoption of innovative technologies and processes.
• Track record of driving new processes and work streams to completion.
  
  

Key Success Factors

Key success factors include strong communication, organization and the ability to engage, inform and influence diverse stakeholder groups at technical, operational and executive Levels

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.