Product Portfolio Strategy Director

Atlanta, Georgia, United States, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Who we are:

Illumia is an industry leader in bringing the best integrated technology solutions to education, healthcare, and business campuses worldwide. Illumia was built on the collective expertise of two legacy cultures, and brings together people, technology, and insight to pioneer the art of the experience across the communities we serve. Be a part of this exciting organization and improving the lives of people doing mission-critical work.

Wy join our team?

We strive to provide the best customer experience in the industry and have succeeded with a single, strong motivating principle:
We serve our user community.

Our success and growth are directly attributed to our people. Our newly named company is dedicated to fostering a culture of integrity, respect, and continuous personal development. We maintain an entrepreneurial spirit, where creativity, innovative problem-solving, and learning agility drive our day-to-day actions.

What you will be doing:

The Product Portfolio Strategy Director is an individual-contributor strategy role within the Product organization, reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer (CPO) with regular visibility to the executive team and the Board of Directors. This role is responsible for building and operating the analytical rigor behind the company's product investment decisions: developing business cases in partnership with segment General Managers (GMs), maintaining a single source of truth on portfolio status and risk for leadership, and establishing the repeatable processes, templates, and cadences that make portfolio strategy a durable function rather than an ad hoc exercise.

This is a newly established function; the incumbent will be responsible for designing the operating model, not inheriting an existing one.

This position is distinct from product management, program/project management, and Chief of Staff roles. It does not include ownership of product delivery, sprint execution, ticket triage, or executive calendar management.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Portfolio strategy and business cases

• Lead the development of business cases behind major investment decisions — market sizing, cost-benefit, and the trade-offs leadership actually needs to see — in close partnership with the GM who owns that segment
• Build and run the portfolio prioritization framework, annual operating plans, and longer-term strategic plans
• Own the decks, scorecards, and recommendations that go to the exec team and board — this is your work product, not a summary of someone else's

Initiative Storytelling and Executive Reporting

• Own the narrative on the major initiatives the portfolio is running at any given time
• Run a tight cadence of portfolio reviews, so leadership sees one format and one source of truth
• Call out real outcomes and risk, not just activity
• Present to execs; be the person who can answer 'so what' without notice

Process Design and Governance

• Build the templates and rhythm that make portfolio strategy repeatable, not reinvented
• Keep one current view of every initiative's status and risk, so no one's working off stale information
• Spot where process is breaking down and fix it, without taking over delivery work that belongs to the teams doing it

Cross-functional partnership

• Partner with segment GMs as they build the case for their bets — you drive the analysis and the argument, they own the business and the call
• Build real trust with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Service leadership — this job runs on trust
• Be a thought partner to Product leadership, helping them frame their own strategy well
• Stay tight with the CPO & CTO so portfolio strategy is communicated the same way everywhere it shows up

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.
• 6+ years of experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, or a comparably rigorous analytical function.
• Demonstrated track record of developing business cases that directly informed executive or Board-level investment decisions.
• Experience preparing and presenting materials to executive leadership and/or a Board of Directors.

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