Program Manager - Transit Technology & Fare Systems

WSP
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 174,500 - 255,000 annuallyFunction: Program & Project Management (PMO)Education: bachelorsSkills: ["Stakeholder management","Executive communication","Program controls","Risk management","Governance"]

Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale transit fare payment and customer mobility technology programs for a major New York transit agency. Serve as the primary day-to-day project management lead, coordinating clients, vendors, contractors, systems integrators, and stakeholders. Own planning, schedules, budgets, risk/issue management, governance, and executive reporting, and oversee testing, operational readiness, implementation, transition planning, and go-live activities.

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Program Manager - Transit Technology & Fare Systems

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Job Summary

Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale transit fare payment and customer mobility technology programs for a major New York transit agency. Serve as the primary day-to-day project management lead, coordinating clients, vendors, contractors, systems integrators, and stakeholders. Own planning, schedules, budgets, risk/issue management, governance, and executive reporting, and oversee testing, operational readiness, implementation, transition planning, and go-live activities.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Program & Project Management (PMO)
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as Program Manager for fare collection, transit technology, customer payment, and mobility projects.
  • •Coordinate planning, execution, monitoring, control, and reporting across the program lifecycle.
  • •Develop and maintain integrated schedules, budgets, action item logs, risk registers, issue logs, and executive dashboards.
  • •Facilitate executive steering committees, stakeholder workshops, technical reviews, and governance meetings.
  • •Oversee implementation oversight through testing, system acceptance, operational readiness, transition planning, and go-live activities.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 174,500 - 255,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRetirement SavingsPaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in engineering, IT, business administration, transportation, construction management, planning, or related field.
  • •Minimum 12 years of progressively responsible project and program management experience.
  • •Minimum 10 years managing large-scale transit, transportation technology, fare collection, ITS, payment systems, or technology implementation programs.
  • •Experience managing complex multi-stakeholder programs with budgets exceeding $50 million.
  • •Experience overseeing system integration, software development, hardware deployment, testing, and implementation activities.
Experience:TransitTransportation technologyFare paymentAccount-based ticketingOpen payments
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Stakeholder managementExecutive communicationProgram controlsRisk managementGovernance
Certifications:PMP
Languages:English
Tech Stack:OMNYPMPPMBOKPrimavera P6Microsoft ProjectJiraSmartsheetMicrosoft Office SuiteAFCABTContactless paymentsOpen-loop paymentsMobile ticketing

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

WSP
Global professional services firm providing engineering, consulting, and technical services across infrastructure, environment, buildings, transportation, and energy sectors for public- and private-sector clients worldwide.
Industry: Professional Services
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Montreal, Canada
Founded: 1959
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