Senior Program Manager

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing...

You will be joining Verizon Business Product Organization as the Verizon AI Connect PMO lead on the Portfolio Management team. You will lead cross-segment and cross Business Unit strategy, partnering and collaborating with Product Managers, Marketing, Technology, Network, Finance and more. You will be responsible for strategy and execution for the Portfolio Management Team in support of all business segments, including Global Enterprise, Business Markets, Public Sector, and Wholesale. 

In this role, you will navigate complex project landscapes, utilizing your proven ability to research, collaborate, and iterate to overcome challenges and deliver impactful solutions. Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to navigating ambiguity and driving projects forward. Collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership, to ensure alignment and project success. Build and maintain strong partnerships across various departments, including Product, Strategy, Finance, Network, IT, Technology Solutions, Marketing, and Sales. Possess strong visual communication and information design skills, enabling you to translate complex information into compelling infographics and presentations. Demonstrate a strong understanding of financial management, including expense tracking, capital allocation, and revenue forecasting.

In this role responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Delivering unified product and platform strategies to senior leadership and driving alignment from stakeholder organizations against strategies.

• Collaborating on use cases, technical requirements, product design, and functional testing to ensure products adhere to aligned strategy and interoperate against other products in the VBG portfolio.

• Ensuring high engagement, extensive collaboration and strong partnerships with stakeholder organizations. Influencing direction by raising visibility of trends, issues, opportunities across the organization.

• Engaging with annual and multi-year capital strategy and planning to protect and growing profitable revenue streams, balancing allocation for margin, revenue, and innovation.

• Aligning execution for success based on market insight and performance analysis, ensuring insight programs inform product-specific strategy and path-to-market approach.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Experience with Program & Project Management.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Experience with GPUaaS, Dark Fiber, or WAVE solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to manage and lead a project team.

• Business Products Lifecycle Management experience.

• Financial acumen.

• Expert communication.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.