Principal Portfolio Manager - Product, Program & Project Delivery

This role is not eligible for 100% remote work. Employees must live within a commutable distance of the Nashville, TN metropolitan area and must be willing to be onsite at the client and/or Slalom office 5 days a week.

At Slalom, our Delivery capability is the engine that powers transformation. We are the connective tissue across all capabilities—bringing strategy to life through execution that is rigorous, adaptive, and outcome-driven.

You’ll join a community of delivery professionals who thrive in complexity and are passionate about making things happen. Our teams lead high-impact initiatives across industries, partnering with clients to navigate ambiguity, align stakeholders, and deliver results that matter. Whether it’s a multi-workstream transformation or a product launch, we bring clarity, structure, and momentum to every engagement.

We work shoulder-to-shoulder with clients, tailoring delivery approaches to meet them where they are—whether Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid. Our focus is on enabling predictable, repeatable outcomes that help organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows.

As a Principal Portfolio Manager, you will lead a portfolio of strategic initiatives that blend product, program, and project delivery disciplines to achieve measurable business outcomes. You will oversee interconnected investments, product initiatives, and transformation programs, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy while maximizing value, managing risk, and enabling executive decision-making.

This role is ideal for a leader who balances strategic portfolio oversight with hands‑on delivery leadership. You will serve as the connective tissue between business stakeholders, product teams, delivery teams, and executive leadership, driving execution while maintaining a strong focus on customer value, product outcomes, and organizational priorities.

• Lead a portfolio of business and technology initiatives, ensuring investments align to strategic objectives, product roadmaps, and organizational priorities.
• Oversee complex product-focused programs consisting of multiple projects and work streams, driving successful delivery and measurable business outcomes.
• Partner with executive stakeholders to establish portfolio priorities, evaluate trade‑offs, allocate resources, and guide investment decisions.
• Create visibility into portfolio health through governance, reporting, financial oversight, dependency management, and risk mitigation.
• Drive alignment across product, business, technology, and operations teams to ensure delivery efforts support long‑term product and organizational goals.
• Enable product‑centric delivery models by connecting strategy, roadmap execution, customer outcomes, and operational excellence.
• Balance scope, budget, timeline, value realization, and organizational capacity across multiple simultaneous initiatives.
• Build trusted relationships across all levels of the organization, influencing decisions and driving alignment through ambiguity and change.
• Optimize team performance and delivery velocity by proactively removing obstacles, facilitating decision‑making, and coaching delivery leaders.
• Mentor project managers, program managers, product leaders, and consultants while contributing to the evolution of portfolio management and delivery practices.
• Leverage data, AI‑enabled tools, and delivery metrics to improve decision‑making, operational effectiveness, forecasting, and portfolio outcomes.
• Support business development activities, solution shaping, and executive conversations related to strategic transformation and portfolio planning.

• 8+ years of experience leading strategic portfolios, programs, and…