Associate Principal Integration Specialist

The Associate Principal Integration Specialist is a core contributor to program and project delivery, supporting the team in defining direction for and ensuring exceptional execution of critical strategic initiatives. This role will leverage best practices from across project management, implementation and change management, user design, business strategy, and service design to drive consensus and help ensure high-profile initiatives deliver on their intended value, including objectives and key results. Under general direction from their manager and with leadership and guidance from other team members, this individual will play a key supporting role in guiding stakeholders through the development and delivery of artifacts that define strategic vision and turn complex collaboration ecosystems into clear roadmaps for successful delivery, with articulation of business architecture and management of key interdependencies. This individual will be expected to lead lower complexity projects and support other team members on larger and more complex projects that span process/service design, user and product design, and people/culture and organizational design.

Essential Job Functions:

• Support leadership in development of Strategy, Goals, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and associated measurements, such as executive and operational metrics, Key Performance Indicators and OKR tracking and reporting.
• Assist in the development of strategic and operational plans to support achievement of Key Results.
• Lead lower complexity priority projects and support other team members on larger and more complex priority projects, while developing enhanced understanding of business. 
• Collaborate with business users and technical teams, including product, and other FINRA functions to ensure continued strategic alignment; innovate and facilitate collective problem-solving; identify inter-dependencies; drive decision-making; and ensure the successful completion of projects and processes required to achieve Key Results.
• Leverage best practices from business process re-engineering, human centered design/service design, project management (including use of Member Supervision framework and supporting templates) and change management to create and present materials that effectively communicate current state process and technology challenges, opportunities for improvements, and critical success factors across initiatives.
• Assist in planning for and facilitating workshops, working groups, and other governance forums including contributing to agendas, materials, discussion, and documenting key decisions and action items.
• Produce actionable and effective materials and narrative in support of priority strategic projects and objectives.
• Communicate effectively with both senior leaders and front-line staff, often in the same meeting, striking a balance in tone and content to serve multiple audiences.
• Support the development of target operating models, including defining requirements for key products, processes, and operational plans to support objectives and key results across initiatives.
• Support the development of reporting and analytics for assigned initiatives to facilitate effective decision making by senior leaders.
• Effectively use collaborative documents and tools, like whiteboarding spaces (Miro) to work through projects with others.

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Relevant industry certification(s) in business or design related fields (Strategy, Design, Program/Project Management) highly preferred.
• Experience in facilitating workshops and developing visual artifacts preferred.
• Ability to work flexibly and efficiently; high comfort level with working in a self-directed culture and navigating ambiguity.
• Ability to work well as both an individual contributor and in highly collaborative environments.
• Solid analytical, critical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Solid stakeholder management and engagement skills with the ability to be a thought partner to project counterparts.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, presentation), particularly ability to synthesize complex issues/scenarios into easy-to-understand concepts through "storytelling", and presenting to senior leaders.

For work that is performed in CA, Washington, DC, CO, HI, New York, NY and WA, the chart below outlines the proposed salary range for the corresponding location. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s skill set, level of experience, education, and internal peer compensation comparisons.

California: Minimum Salary $91,500, Maximum Salary $170,900

Washington, DC: Minimum Salary $91,500, Maximum Salary $163,700
Colorado/Hawaii: Minimum Salary $79,500, Maximum Salary $142,300
New York, NY: Minimum Salary $95,400, Maximum Salary $170,900
Washington State: Minimum Salary $79,500, Maximum Salary $163,700

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