Director, Portfolio Management

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The Director, Portfolio Management serves as a principal portfolio advisor responsible for leading integrated portfolio planning, demand flow, roadmap transparency, capacity visibility, and prioritization support within an assigned business technology domain. This role translates strategic objectives into executable short-term portfolio plans, ensuring the organization has a clear, fact-based view of requested work, committed work, available capacity, dependencies, execution constraints, and tradeoffs required to deliver meaningful business and technology impact.

This role partners closely with technology domain leadership, business owners, delivery leaders, Project Managers, enterprise portfolio partners, and governance forums to ensure the domain is focused on the highest-value work at the right time. The Director owns the integrated domain portfolio plan, connecting domain demand, roadmap priorities, committed initiatives, delivery milestones, dependencies, capacity assumptions, deferred work, reprioritization impacts, and decision rationale.

The ideal candidate is an experienced portfolio leader who can navigate complex and ambiguous business and technology environments, shape portfolio practices, influence senior stakeholders, guide tradeoff conversations, and create transparency across departments. Success requires the ability to connect strategy to executable work, identify constraints early, drive alignment across stakeholders, and improve portfolio flow while supporting measurable organizational impact.

• Lead and maintain the integrated domain portfolio plan, including committed initiatives, emerging demand, roadmap sequencing, delivery milestones, dependencies, capacity assumptions, deferred work, risks, and decision rationale.
• Translate strategic business and technology objectives into short-term executable portfolio priorities, sequencing recommendations, and roadmap plans for the assigned domain.
• Serve as a principal advisor to domain technology leadership, business owners, enterprise portfolio partners, and governance forums on portfolio health, prioritization tradeoffs, delivery risk, capacity constraints, and execution feasibility.
• Partner with technology domain leadership and business owners to ensure the domain roadmap is executable, transparent, and aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Shape and continuously improve portfolio planning, demand management, roadmap transparency, prioritization, and governance practices within the assigned domain.
• Provide visibility into work in progress, deferred work, risks, constraints, dependencies, and tradeoffs required when priorities shift.
• Maintain roadmap transparency so stakeholders understand sequencing, timing, dependencies, and the impact of portfolio changes.
• Lead the process for domain intake and demand management in partnership with business owners and technology domain leadership.
• Ensure incoming demand is clearly defined, connected to business priorities, sized appropriately, assessed for delivery and operational readiness, and evaluated against capacity, value, dependencies, technical constraints, and enterprise priorities.
• Develop prioritization recommendations that consider business value, strategic alignment, customer and agent impact, operational impact, regulatory…