Director, Portfolio Management
Addison, TXAll locationsAddison, TXMontpelier, VT On-site
$127,500–$187,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
The Director, Portfolio Management serves as a principal portfolio advisor responsible for leading integrated portfolio planning, demand flow, roadmap transparency, capacity visibility, and prioritization support within an assigned business technology domain. This role translates strategic objectives into executable short-term portfolio plans, ensuring the organization has a clear, fact-based view of requested work, committed work, available capacity, dependencies, execution constraints, and tradeoffs required to deliver meaningful business and technology impact. This role partners closely with technology domain leadership, business owners, delivery leaders, Project Managers, enterprise portfolio partners, and governance forums to ensure the domain is focused on the highest-value work at the right time. The Director owns the integrated domain portfolio plan, connecting domain demand, roadmap priorities, committed initiatives, delivery milestones, dependencies, capacity assumptions, deferred work, reprioritization impacts, and decision rationale. This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you will be in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.
What you'll bring
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related work experience.
- 14 or more years of related experience in portfolio management, program management, product-oriented delivery, business strategy, value stream leadership, enterprise transformation, business analysis, or technology-enabled business change within complex environments.
- Strong Life and Annuity industry experience with demonstrated expertise in the assigned domain.
- Proven ability to translate business and technology strategy into executable portfolio plans, roadmap priorities, sequencing options, prioritization recommendations, and measurable capability improvements.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex portfolio planning across business, technology, delivery, operational, supplier, and enterprise stakeholder groups.
- Strong experience with intake management, demand shaping, roadmap sequencing, capacity planning, prioritization analysis, tradeoff structuring, dependency management, dynamic reprioritization, and value realization tracking.
- Proven ability to serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders by clarifying tradeoffs, surfacing execution constraints, and creating alignment in complex, highly matrixed environments.
- Demonstrated ability to influence portfolio practices, governance conversations, roadmap decisions, and prioritization outcomes across departments or business technology domains.
- Strong analytical capability with the ability to synthesize portfolio data, capacity information, delivery health, dependency impacts, and value indicators into clear executive-ready recommendations.
- Strong systems-thinking capability with the ability to balance domain priorities with enterprise alignment, customer and advisor impact, operational sustainability, and execution feasibility.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to reduce ambiguity, create transparency, and maintain confidence across senior business and technology stakeholders.
- Advanced degree in business, technology, operations, or a related field.