Executive Director Portfolio Management & Governance

JPMorgan Chase; Jersey City (NJ); In loco; USD 180.000 - 260.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

JPMorgan Chase is seeking an Executive Director within Corporate Technology's Portfolio Management & Governance team in Jersey City. You will drive portfolio planning, governance, executive reporting, and tooling improvements across a global technology portfolio, executing end-to-end workstreams with autonomy and data-driven influence.

You will shape strategy into actionable plans, support AI-enabled initiatives, strengthen controls, and partner with Finance, Business Management, and Engineering

Competenze

• 7+ years of experience in technical program management or equivalent expertise.
• Demonstrated proficiency with technical solutions and vendor relationships.
• Advanced analytical reasoning and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to lead through change in high-pressure environments.
• Advanced stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience in guiding complex technology projects, budgets, and timelines.
• Experience deploying AI capabilities with governance and risk considerations.

Mansioni

• Portfolio planning & investment hygiene: drive annual planning cycles; set standards and guardrails; ensure consistency across CT.
• Portfolio governance & oversight: enhance governance model; align investments with strategy and financial targets; maintain controls.
• Executive insights & reporting: produce executive-ready insights on budget, delivery health, risk posture; establish dashboards.
• Process excellence, tooling & AI enablement: identify improvements across portfolio lifecycle; improve tooling, data quality, automation; apply AI approaches.
• Risk, controls & audit readiness: embed controls; maintain audit-ready evidence and documentation; align with goals and cross-functional teams.
• Stakeholder management & influence: align with Engineering, Product, Finance, and Business Management; ensure consistency and compliance.
• Enterprise AI governance: define guardrails for AI-assisted workflows, with human approval checkpoints and auditability.

Conoscenze

Technical program management

Vendor management

Analytical reasoning

Change leadership

Stakeholder management

AI-enabled solutions

Governance frameworks

Project execution

Strumenti

Technology solutions

Data-driven reporting

Descrizione del lavoro

As an Executive Director on Corporate Technology's Portfolio Management & Governance team, you will drive core elements of portfolio planning, investment governance, executive reporting, and process/tooling improvement across a large global technology portfolio. This is a hands-on individual contributor role: you will execute and own defined workstreams end-to-end, operate with strong autonomy, and influence stakeholders through clear, data-driven insights. You will help translate strategy into execution-ready plans and contribute to the teams broader transformation agenda-streamlining processes, improving data quality and tooling, strengthening controls and audit readiness, and personally building and operating AI-enabled solutions to increase efficiency and quality.

Elevate your career by steering multi-faceted tech programs, integrating innovative solutions for a dynamic impact across global operations.

Job Responsibilities

• Portfolio planning & investment hygiene: Drive the annual planning cycles for Corporate Technology, in partnership with Finance & Business Management; own discrete planning workstreams as assigned; set standards, calendars, and guardrails; Drive consistency in intra-year planning approaches across CT.
• Portfolio governance & oversight: Enhance the governance operating model for Corporate Technology's portfolio; ensure investment decisions align with strategy and financial targets. Maintain intra-year controls for reprioritization, funding moves, and exception management. Provide transparency, actionability, and clear recommendations to senior stakeholders; escalation risks, issues, and roadblocks early.
• Executive insights & reporting : Produce executive-ready insights on budget vs. actuals vs. forecast, delivery health, value realization , and risk posture; Establish consistent metrics and dashboards; ensure parity across self-serve APIs and curated views.
• Process excellence, tooling & AI enablement : Identify and implement targeted improvements across the portfolio lifecycle: intake to prioritization to approval to tracking to value realization; Partner with product/engineering teams and platform owners to improve tooling adoption, data quality, and automation; Apply AI-enabled approaches to increase efficiency and quality
• Risk, controls & audit readiness: Embed strong controls in portfolio processes; maintain audit-ready evidence, lineage, and documentation. Develop and implement strategic technical program plans, aligning with organizational goals and cross-functional collaboration
• Stakeholder management & influence: Partner with Engineering, Product, Finance, and Business Management to align on priorities, dependencies, and outcomes. Coordinate with enterprise investment governance and line-of-business stakeholders to ensure consistency and compliance.
• Sets enterprise strategy for reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate program planning, risk synthesis, and executive reporting, with human-in-the-loop validation and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Defines and enforces enterprise guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows used in program governance and delivery routines, including control boundaries, traceability/auditability, and review/approval expectations aligned to resiliency and security standards.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 7+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in technical program management, leading complex technology projects and programs in large organizations
• Demonstrated proficiency in technical solutions, vendor product knowledge, managing vendor relations, and implementing solutions
• Advanced analytical reasoning skills, applying critical thinking and problem-solving techniques to break down business, technical, and operational objectives
• Proven ability in leading through change, managing dependencies, and controlling change in high-pressure, shifting environments
• Advanced expertise in stakeholder management, establishing productive relationships, and driving beneficial outcomes aligned with firm objectives
• Ability to lead complex technology project and program execution, managing resources, budgets, and timelines while mitigating risks and addressing roadblocks
• Partner with key stakeholders to guide selection and implementation of appropriate technologies, platforms and software tools leveraging advanced technical fluency
• Deliver continuous improvement by identifying process optimization opportunities, incorporating best practices, and staying abreast of emerging technologies
• Demonstrated experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment at firm scale, including validation practices, data sensitivity considerations, and measurable delivery outcomes.
• Ability to establish governance and decision frameworks for AI-assisted and agentic workflows, including human approval checkpoints and auditability aligned to resi