Project Lead - Cross-Functional Projects

About the role

The Project Lead plans and delivers cross-functional projects end to end, from mobile app features and payment partner integrations to new-market launches. You will own scope, schedule, cost, risk and quality from initiation to closure and keep teams and stakeholders aligned. The role reports to the Group PMO and is based in the USA time zone (GMT-6).

Key responsibilities

• Initiation and planning: define scope, objectives, deliverables and success criteria with sponsors; build detailed plans (WBS, schedule, milestones, resources, budget, RACI); identify stakeholders and dependencies and set up the communication plan.
• Requirements coordination and design sign-off with Product, Business and IT.
• Execution: lead cross-functional teams across IT, Product, Compliance, Payments, Operations and Finance; run delivery in Agile (Scrum), Waterfall or hybrid, managing tasks and backlogs in Jira; manage payment partners, banks and vendors to agreed timelines.
• Plan and coordinate UAT, go-live readiness, cutover and hypercare.
• Monitor progress against the baseline, manage scope changes through formal change control, maintain the RAID log and escalate blockers, and monitor budget and resource use.
• Ensure regulatory and compliance requirements are built in and signed off before launch.
• Report weekly status reports (RAG status, milestones, risks, decisions), run steering and team meetings, and close projects with sign-off, handover and lessons learned.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• 4-6 years of project management experience, including at least 2-3 years leading cross-functional projects end to end.
• Track record of delivering software, digital product or system integration projects.
• Clear written and spoken English, confident presenting to senior leaders.

Required skills

• Solid grounding in PMBOK, Waterfall, Agile/Scrum and hybrid methods.
• Strong scope, schedule, cost, risk and change management skills.
• Jira, Generative AI, MS Project or Planner and Excel.
• Nice to have: PMP or PRINCE2, fintech/payments/banking experience, multi-country launches or payment partner API integrations, AML/KYC and regulatory knowledge, Power BI reporting, MBA or Master's in Project Management.