Director, HR Technology Portfolio & Program Management

Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You

The location for this position is virtual/remote This is your chance to be part of a Corporate Human Resources team at a top global hospitality company! As the Director, HR Technology Portfolio & Program Management, you will lead portfolio governance and program management across Hilton's global HR Technology organization. You will establish the operating disciplines, governance, and insights needed to effectively plan, prioritize, and deliver a complex portfolio of HR technology initiatives.

Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You

The location for this position is virtual/remote This is your chance to be part of a Corporate Human Resources team at a top global hospitality company! As the Director, HR Technology Portfolio & Program Management, you will lead portfolio governance and program management across Hilton's global HR Technology organization. You will establish the operating disciplines, governance, and insights needed to effectively plan, prioritize, and deliver a complex portfolio of HR technology initiatives.

You will drive integrated planning, program execution, resource and capacity management, portfolio governance, executive reporting, and cross-functional coordination. Working across HR Technology, HR Centers of Excellence, Enterprise Technology, regional teams, and strategic partners, you will provide visibility across the portfolio, identify risks and dependencies, and help ensure resources and priorities are aligned to Hilton's most important HR technology initiatives. You will also lead the modernization of Hilton's HR Technology portfolio and program management practices, leveraging data, automation, analytics, and AI to improve visibility, accelerate decision-making, and strengthen delivery effectiveness.

• Lead integrated portfolio planning across HR Technology, maintaining visibility into initiatives, milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, and delivery commitments.
• Manage portfolio intake and prioritization processes, providing leaders with the data, capacity insights, dependencies and tradeoffs needed to make informed decisions.
• Provide program management leadership for major cross-functional HR Technology initiatives, coordinating work streams, milestones, dependencies, decisions, risks and implementation readiness.
• Establish consistent portfolio governance and delivery standards, proactively identifying risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints and driving resolution and escalation.
• Lead resource and capacity planning across the portfolio, partnering with internal teams and external partners to align demand, capacity, and delivery commitments.
• Lead portfolio reviews, steering committees, planning cycles, and executive reporting, translating complex program information into clear insights, recommendations, and decisions.
• Coordinate execution across HR Technology, HR Centers of Excellence, Enterprise Technology, regional teams, vendors and implementation partners.
• Partner with product and business leaders to establish program success measures and track delivery against intended business and operational outcomes.
• Establish program management and governance practices for AI-enabled HR Technology initiatives, including readiness, dependencies, adoption, risk, and outcome tracking.
• Modernize portfolio and program management practices through AI, automation, analytics and modern tooling to improve planning, reporting, risk identification and organizational productivity.
• Establish scalable standards, tools and practices that strengthen delivery discipline while simplifying processes and reducing unnecessary administrative burden.

• Partner with HR Technology Product leaders to translate product roadmaps and priorities into integrated delivery plans, resource requirements, milestones and dependencies.
• Collaborate with HR Centers of Excellence and Global HR Operations to align business priorities, implementation requirements and organizational readiness.
• Work closely with Enterprise Technology, Information Security, Architecture, Data & Analytics and Integration teams to coordinate cross-functional dependencies and delivery.
• Partner with HR Technology leadership to support portfolio planning, prioritization, capacity decisions, executive governance and strategic initiatives.
• Coordinate with strategic vendors and implementation partners to establish clear delivery expectations, governance,…