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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, or related field
• 10+ years of technical experience
• 8+ years of leadership experience
• Expertise in portfolio, program, or product management in complex enterprise environments
• Strong understanding of IT financial management, governance models, and strategic alignment
• Proven ability to drive value realization and executive-level decision-making
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead enterprise portfolio governance for CTO-managed investments, ensuring alignment with IT strategy, enterprise architecture, and modernization roadmaps
• Define and enforce portfolio standards, intake processes, and prioritization frameworks
• Drive value-based prioritization across business outcomes and technical investments
• Enable transparent, data-driven decision-making forums across CTO and business leadership
• Oversee the end-to-end demand lifecycle including intake, evaluation, prioritization, and approval of initiatives
• Integrate multiple demand types: Business-driven initiatives, Technology-driven investments (technical debt, platform modernization, resiliency, security)
• Align investment decisions with strategic roadmaps, funding constraints, and enterprise priorities
• Lead CTO organization capacity planning across engineering and platform teams
• Optimize allocation of funding and resources across competing initiatives
• Create transparency on CTO organizations staffing levels and manage approval process for CTO staffing (for both associate and contract resources)
• Implement capacity-based planning models that account for delivery throughput, dependency constraints, and critical skills availability
• Establish and monitor portfolio health metrics across financials, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes
• Implement benefits realization frameworks linking investment to: Business outcomes, Cost efficiency, Platform adoption and engineering productivity, Productivity measurements
• Deliver executive-level insights and performance reporting using data-driven metrics
• Act as the central coordination point across CTO teams, including: Enterprise Architecture, Platform and Engineering teams, Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, and Data organizations
• Resolve cross-team dependencies, sequencing issues, and competing priorities
• Ensure alignment between investment decisions and enterprise architecture direction
• Lead portfolio-level communication strategy for the CTO organization, ensuring clear, consistent messaging of priorities, trade-offs, and outcomes
• Translate complex portfolio dynamics into executive-ready narratives and decision materials for senior leadership forums
• Drive transparency through: Standardized portfolio dashboards, Executive briefings and readouts, Cross-functional updates across CTO and business stakeholders
• Serve as a single source of truth for portfolio status, risks, and investment decisions across the CTO organization
• Partner with CTO leadership to communicate: Strategic shifts, Investment trade-offs, Technology priorities and modernization progress
• Lead and coordinate change management across the CTO portfolio, ensuring effective adoption of new platforms, processes, and operating model changes
• Align change management strategies with portfolio delivery to ensure sustained value realization and adoption
• Partner with engineering, platform, and business teams to: Assess organizational readiness, Identify adoption risks, Execute mitigation strategies
• Drive consistent change management practices, including: Stakeholder engagement plans, Communication strategies, Training and enablement
• Ensure that technology and organizational changes are sequenced and coordinated across multiple CTO teams, reducing friction and enabling smoother transitions
• Institutionalize Lean Portfolio Management practices, including continuous planning and dynamic funding allocation
• Standardize portfolio management processes, tools, and governance artifacts
• Drive continuous improvement through metrics, retrospectives, and industry benchmarking
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, controls, and regulatory requirements
• Proactively manage portfolio-level risks across delivery, technology, financial, and vendor dimensions
• Lead and mentor a team of portfolio managers and analysts
• Build organizational capability in portfolio management, financial governance, and data-driven decision-making
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and outcomes-based delivery
• Establish portfolio-level governance for technology sourcing, vendor management, and contract renewals across the CTO organization
• Drive early visibility and planning for major contract renewals to improve outcomes and avoid reactive decisions
• Align vendor investments and contract decisions with technology strategy, architecture standards, and platform roadmaps
• Partner with Procurement to strengthen sourcing strategies, negotiation outcomes, and cost optimization
• Implement consistent measures for vendor performance, value realization, and contract effectiveness
• Reduce fragmentation by improving enterprise visibility into vendor usage, enabling consolidation and stronger negotiating leverage

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave)
• short-term and long-term disability
• life insurance
• bonus incentive plan