Director, Product and Portfolio Management – Platform Engineering

Role Overview

• Own portfolio intake, prioritization, sequencing, and governance across platform and engineering initiatives.
• Establish and lead portfolio operating rhythms (quarterly planning, monthly portfolio reviews, dependency and risk reviews, roadmap alignment).
• Drive transparency across scope, progress, milestones, risks, dependencies, capacity, and financials.
• Ensure alignment between portfolio priorities and Platform Engineering strategy, balancing innovation, reuse, capacity, and time-to-value.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Finance on investment decisions, trade-offs, and funding alignment.
• Establish and oversee benefits realization practices to ensure delivery outcomes translate into measurable business value and sustained adoption.
• Drive scope-related decisions across all phases of initiatives, from intake through delivery.
• Champion Platform First solutions, prioritizing reuse, extensibility, and cross-platform integration.
• Align and manage cross-program dependencies and synergies to reduce duplication and accelerate value.
• Ensure workstreams are led by accountable leaders who clearly articulate project needs, outcomes, and constraints.
• Serve as a senior partner to Product Management to ensure platform and product roadmaps are aligned and mutually reinforcing.
• Ensure deep understanding of the customer problem being solved and the intended business outcomes.
• Assess, clarify, refine, and augment product requirements to enable integrated, end-to-end experiences.
• Conduct complexity assessments to determine the level of solutioning, architectural rigor, and delivery approach required.
• Provide Platform First solution options, clearly articulating trade-offs, implications, and reuse opportunities.
• Lead the design and continuous improvement of program and project management methodologies for complex, multi-team platform initiatives.
• Define and maintain a clear delivery operating model, including decision rights, governance forums, escalation paths, and RACI.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience leading product, program, portfolio, or delivery functions in large, complex technology organizations.
• Demonstrated experience in early-stage scoping, solutioning, and technical product leadership.
• Proven ability to operate at the portfolio level, including intake, prioritization, sequencing, and governance.
• Strong people leadership experience leading managers and senior individual contributors.
• Experience delivering complex, multi-team initiatives using Agile or hybrid delivery models.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Advanced degree (MBA, MS, or equivalent) (Desired).
• Experience with platform engineering, reusable services, and enterprise-scale architectures (Desired).
• Familiarity with scaled Agile or enterprise delivery coordination models (Desired).
• Experience integrating security, privacy, and compliance into solutioning and delivery governance (Desired).
• Relevant certifications (PgMP, PMP, SAFe, Scrum, Agile Coaching) (Desired).

Tech Stack

• PMP

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
• 401(k) savings plans*
• Health Savings Account (HSA)*
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
• Health Lifestyle Programs*
• Employee Assistance Program*
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
• Career Development*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement

• These benefits also apply to part-time employees