Sr. Portfolio Program Manager - R&D New Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

6sense; Bengaluru; Presencial; INR 3.000.000 - 5.400.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

6sense in Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Portfolio Program Manager to orchestrate portfolio programs across an R&D pillar, partnering with Product and Engineering leaders to maintain commitments, dependencies, risks, and readiness while improving delivery predictability.

The role blends Agile coaching with portfolio management, driving planning discipline, execution health, and AI-enabled workflows that scale across teams and functions, with end-to-end ownership of strategic initiatives when

Formación

• 8+ years of experience in Portfolio Management, Program Management, Technical Program Management, Product Operations, or related roles within a SaaS or technology environment.
• Experience leading Product and Engineering portfolios spanning multiple teams, product areas, or organizational units.
• Experience establishing and leading portfolio governance frameworks, operating rhythms, quarterly planning processes, executive review forums, and reporting mechanisms that improve visibility, alignment, decision-making, and execution predictability.
• Demonstrated success managing portfolio risk, dependencies, capacity constraints, competing priorities, and roadmap execution at scale.
• Experience facilitating executive, leadership, and cross-functional governance forums that drive alignment, accountability, and decision-making.
• Demonstrated success improving team effectiveness, delivery predictability, planning maturity, flow efficiency, and execution outcomes through Agile coaching, facilitation, and continuous improvement practices.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without formal authority, navigate ambiguity, clarify accountability, and drive alignment, decision-making, and follow-through across multiple stakeholders.
• Experience identifying, evaluating, and implementing automation, AI-enabled workflows, and emerging technologies that improve portfolio visibility, operational efficiency, scalability, and decision-making effectiveness.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into executive-ready insights and recommendations.
• Working knowledge ofProductboard, Jira, Confluence, dashboarding, and business intelligence platforms.
• Agile coaching or Agile delivery certifications such as ICP-ACC, CSP, CSM, PSM,SAFeSPC,SAFeAgilist, or equivalent practicalexperience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsabilidades

• Partner with Product and Engineering Pillar Leaders to establish and maintain portfolio baselines, including commitments, milestones, dependencies, ownership, readiness expectations, capacity assumptions, and success measures.
• Maintain visibility into portfolio commitments and execution progress, surfacing material variances and coordinating change-management actions when scope, timeline, resource, or delivery commitments materially change.
• Establish and continuously improve portfolio metrics, dashboards, reporting practices, automation, and AI-enabled workflows that strengthen portfolio visibility, decision-making, execution transparency, and operational efficiency.
• Identify, evaluate, and introduce AI, automation, and emerging technologies that improve Program Management effectiveness, scalability, decision-making, and operational efficiency across the R&D pillar.
• Coordinate with R&D Operating System teams to improve data quality, portfolio tooling, process standards, reporting, and adoption of portfolio management practices.
• Establish and maintain visibility into cross-team and cross-pillar dependencies, ensuring ownership, impacts, required dates, and status are understood and tracked.
• Coordinate dependency management across teams and pillars, facilitate alignment, resolution discussions, and escalate unresolved risks, impacts, and decisions through governance forums.
• Lead portfolio reviews focused on material changes, risks, dependencies, readiness gaps, capacity conflicts, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
• Facilitate scaled planning, portfolio governance, and synchronization forums that improve alignment, transparency, and execution across the pillar.
• Support quarterly planning cycles by validating commitments, dependencies, capacity assumptions, risks, and decision readiness across the pillar.
• Synthesize portfolio information into decision-ready executive insights, including risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and recommendations, and ensure follow-through is tracked to closure.
• Coach Product and Engineering teams on Agile practices, planning discipline, delivery predictability, flow efficiency, and continuous improvement.
• Identify work that may warrant dedicated Strategic Initiative Program Management support and provide evidence to support coverage decisions.
• Coordinate with Strategic Initiative Program Managers to incorporate initiative health, dependencies, change impacts, and readiness into the pillar portfolio view.

Conocimientos

Portfolio Mgmt

Program Mgmt

TPM

Agile coaching

Executive alignment

SaaS experience

Data-driven decisions

Educación

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Herramientas

Jira

Confluence

Dashboarding

BI platforms

Descripción del empleo

6sense's mission is to multiply what matters: growth, retention, and efficiency. We envision a future where companies, teams and people reach their full potential.

Our People:

People are the heart and soul of 6sense. We serve with passion and purpose. We live by our Being 6sense values of Win as One Team, Stay Curious, Do The Right Thing, Own the Outcome, and Create Belonging. Every 6sensor plays a part in defining the future of our industry-leading technology. 6sense is a place where difference-makers roll up their sleeves, take risks, act with integrity, and measure success by the value we create for our customers. We want 6sense to be the best chapter of your career.

About the Role :

We are seeking a Senior Portfolio Program Manager to provide standing, exception-based orchestration across an assignedResearch&Development (R&D)pillar. Reporting to the Head of Program Management, this individual contributor partners with Product and Engineering Pillar Leaders tomaintaina connected view of portfolio commitments, dependencies, risks, capacity, readiness, and key decisions while improving delivery predictability and organizational effectiveness. Combining Agile coaching with portfolio program management, the role helps teams strengthen planning discipline, execution health, and continuous improvement while translating team-level insights into actionable portfolio visibility and leadership decision support.

The role also serves as a champion for AI-enabled Program Management, continuously identifying and introducing automation, emerging technologies, and workflow improvements that increase scalability, operational efficiency, and decision-making effectiveness. The Portfolio Program Manager coordinates, synthesizes, and escalates material exceptions across teams, product areas, pillars, and functions.

Accountability for product strategy, roadmap priorities, customer outcomes, engineering architecture, technical design, staffing, performance management, team execution, Scrum practices, backlog management, Jira hygiene, funding decisions, launch approvals, and risk acceptance remains with the appropriate Product, Engineering leaders. End-to-end ownership of strategic initiatives is assumed only when explicitly assigned.

Key Responsibilities :

• Partner with Product and Engineering Pillar Leaders toestablishand maintain portfolio baselines, including commitments, milestones, dependencies, ownership, readiness expectations, capacity assumptions, and success measures.
• Maintain visibility into portfolio commitments and execution progress, surfacing material variances and coordinatingappropriate change-managementactions when scope, timeline, resource, or delivery commitments materially change.
• Establish and continuously improve portfolio metrics, dashboards, reporting practices, automation, and AI-enabled workflows that strengthen portfolio visibility, decision-making, execution transparency, and operational efficiency.
• Identify, evaluate, and introduce AI, automation, and emerging technologies that improve Program Management effectiveness, scalability, decision-making, and operational efficiency across the R&D pillar.
• Partner with R&D Operating System teams to improve data quality, portfolio tooling, process standards, reporting, and adoption of portfolio management practices.
• Establish andmaintainvisibility into cross-team and cross-pillar dependencies, ensuring ownership, impacts,requireddates, and status are understood and tracked.
• Coordinate dependency management across teams and pillars,facilitatealignment, resolution discussions, and escalate unresolved risks, impacts, and decisions through established governance forums.
• Lead portfolio reviews focused on material changes, risks, dependencies, readiness gaps, capacity conflicts, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
• Facilitate scaled planning, portfolio governance, and synchronization forums that improve alignment, transparency, and execution across the pillar.
• Support quarterly planning cycles byvalidatingcommitments, dependencies, capacity assumptions, risks, and decision readiness across the pillar.
• Synthesize portfolio information into decision-ready executive insights, including risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and recommendations, and ensure resulting decisions, escalations, and accountable follow-throughare tracked through closure.
• Coach Product and Engineering teams on Agile practices, planning discipline, delivery predictability, flow efficiency, and continuous improvement to strengthen execution effectiveness and delivery outcomes.
• Identifywork that maywarrantdedicated Strategic Initiative Program Management support and provide evidence to support coverage decisions.
• Coordinate with Strategic Initiative Program Managers to incorporate initiative health, dependencies, change impacts, and readiness into the pillar portfolio view.

Qualifications :

• 8+ years of experiencein Portfolio Management, Program Management, Technical Program Management, Product Operations, or related roles within a SaaS or technology environment.
• Experience leading Product and Engineering portfolios spanning multiple teams, product areas, or organizational units.
• Experience establishing and leading portfolio governance frameworks, operating rhythms, quarterly planning processes, executive review forums, and reporting mechanisms that improve visibility, alignment, decision-making, and execution predictability.
• Demonstrated success managing portfolio risk, dependencies, capacity constraints, competing priorities, and roadmap execution at scale.
• Experiencefacilitatingexecutive, leadership, and cross-functional governance forums that drive alignment, accountability, and decision-making.
• Demonstrated success improving team effectiveness, delivery predictability, planning maturity, flow efficiency, and execution outcomes through Agile coaching, facilitation, and continuous improvement practices.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without formal authority, navigate ambiguity, clarify accountability, and drive alignment, decision-making, and follow-through across multiple stakeholders.
• Experienceidentifying, evaluating, and implementing automation, AI-enabled workflows, and emerging technologies that improve portfolio visibility, operational efficiency, scalability, and decision-making effectiveness.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into executive-ready insights and recommendations.
• Working knowledge ofProductboard, Jira, Confluence, dashboarding, and business intelligence platforms.
• Agile coaching or Agile delivery certifications such as ICP-ACC, CSP, CSM, PSM,SAFeSPC,SAFeAgilist, or equivalentpracticalexperience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Success In This Role :

• Trusted portfolio visibility enables informed leadership decisions.
• Risks, dependencies, and changes tocommitments areidentifiedand addressed early.
• Capacity and readiness issues are surfaced before theyimpactdelivery.
• Portfolio governance drivestimelydecisions andclearaccountability.
• Strategic initiatives are integrated into a unified portfolio view.
• Teams improve commitment reliability, delivery predictability, and flow efficiency over time.
• Stakeholders experience greater alignment and faster decision-making with minimal reporting overhead.
• Automation and AI improve operational efficiency, scalability, and insight quality.

Full-time employees can take advantage of health coverage, paid parental leave, generous paid time-off and holidays, quarterly self-care days off, and stock options. We’ll make sure you have the equipment and support you need to work and connect with your teams, at home or in one of our offices.

We have a growth mindset culture that is represented in all that we do, from onboarding through to numerous learning and development initiatives including access to our LinkedIn Learning platform. Employee well-being is also top of mind for us. We host quarterly wellness education sessions to encourage self care and personal growth. From wellness days to ERG-hosted events, we celebrate and energize all 6sense employees and their backgrounds.

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