What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager, Senior Associate position at JPMorgan Chase?
Join a team at the forefront of transformative change, where you'll help shape the future of JPMorganChase's Corporate Third Party Oversight (CTPO) program. CTPO is responsible for developing, deploying, and overseeing firmwide programs that ensure the effective use of third parties and inter-affiliates to accomplish JPMorganChase's strategic objectives. As a Project Manager – Sr. Associate within the CTPO organization, you will operate in a dynamic environment, executing high-impact projects that align with strategic priorities and drive operational efficiency. You'll champion processes and technologies that strengthen risk controls, enhance productivity, and elevate user experience across the organization.
You will manage multiple strategic projects end-to-end, defining success criteria and tracking progress against established benchmarks. This includes creating and executing comprehensive project plans with clearly defined milestones, tasks, dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies. Through stakeholder engagement sessions, you'll gather requirements, solicit feedback, and ensure alignment across diverse groups. Your responsibilities extend to issue tracking, escalation, and resolution, as well as proactive monitoring of project risks. You'll develop clear communications and project artifacts that support seamless initiative delivery and provide transparent status reporting to stakeholders at all levels. Working collaboratively with CTPO business subject matter experts and cross-functional teams, you'll prioritize project activities to maximize impact.
Job responsibilities:
- Manage multiple projects related to key strategic initiatives from inception through closure.
- Define project success criteria and measure progress against established benchmarks.
- Create and execute project plans (Excel/MS Project/PowerPoint), including tracking key milestones and associated tasks, dependencies, and risks.
- Engage and interact with relevant stakeholders during requirements-gathering sessions, feedback sessions, focus groups, and user groups.
- Manage issue tracking, escalation, and resolution, and identify and monitor project risk trends and concerns.
- Develop project-related communications and create project artifacts in support of the overall delivery of initiatives.
- Report project status to key stakeholders using standard formats.
- Work closely with CTPO business SMEs, JPMC LOB contacts, and Product, Technology, Control, Reporting, and Data Science teams to review and prioritize project activities.
Be a proactive risk manager and an advocate of standard risk-control principles to preserve the safety of the firm.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 3 years of proven experience in leading complex cross-functional projects from initiation to closure and bringing measurable improvements.
- Experience with process improvement and operational efficiency initiatives in the financial services and/or technology sectors.
- Experience running technology-centric projects; ability to create data‑driven impact analyses and narratives for leadership.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize high-level information into actionable insights.
- Strong written and oral executive-level communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information in an understandable, compelling, and persuasive manner.
- Highly organized, with superior attention to detail and the ability to work independently.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience
- Familiar with/interested in LLM concepts, SDLC, Bigdata analytics
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Project, Excel and PowerPoint
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Tech/Finance/Consultancy domain work experience
- Change advocate with data-backed point of view to unify a diverse group of stakeholders