Associate Vice President; AVP), Portfolio Management - CTO Organization

Position: Associate Vice President (AVP), Portfolio Management - CTO Organization
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* The Associate Vice President (AVP), Portfolio Management for the CTO organization is a senior leadership role responsible for governing, optimizing, and enabling execution of the technology investment portfolio across CTO organization for enterprise platforms, shared services, and engineering.

This role extends beyond traditional business-aligned portfolio management by coordinating across CTO-owned technology domains (e.g., platforms, infrastructure, architecture, data, security, and engineering enablement teams) in addition to business segments. The AVP ensures that portfolio investments are aligned to enterprise technology strategy, architecture standards, and modernization priorities while driving measurable business and operational outcomes.

The AVP serves as an orchestrator of demand, capacity, investment decisions, and execution alignment, balancing business priorities with technical sustainability, platform evolution, and long-term architecture direction.

** Key Responsibilities*
* ** 1. Portfolio Strategy & Governance*
* + 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

** 2. Demand & Investment Management*
* + 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

** 3. Capacity & Resource Optimization*
* + 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

** 4. Portfolio Performance & Value Realization*
* + 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

** 5. CTO Stakeholder Orchestration*
* + 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

** 6. CTO Communications & Strategic Narrative*
* + 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

** 7. Change Management Leadership (CTO Organization)*
* + Lead and coordinate  
** change management across the CTO portfolio** , ensuring effective adoption of new platforms, processes, and…