Head of PDLC Strategy & Governance

Early Warning; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Early Warning seeks an Enterprise Product Owner to drive the Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) strategy and governance across product, technology, risk, compliance, internal audit, and executive stakeholders. The role ensures scalable delivery capabilities, audit-readiness, and alignment with regulatory expectations.

In this hybrid position, you will oversee prioritized programs, embed risk requirements into lifecycle execution, and partner with executive teams to enable disciplined

Responsibilities

• Service Excellence and governance: Provides executive governance and communications to ensure effective resource utilization, prioritization, and lifecycle decision-making. Owns and maintains PDLC standards, procedures, controls, operating models, governance forums, and operational rhythms; continuously evaluates processes and methodologies to improve consistent execution.
• Operational Effectiveness: Establishes and monitors OKRs, KPIs, lifecycle health measures, control effectiveness, risks, issues, and remediation activity. Uses insights to prioritize corrective actions, roadmap improvements, and sustainable resolution of execution or control gaps.
• Strategic Partner: Manages executive communication and escalations across the organization related to PDLC execution and governance. Serves as a senior escalation point for lifecycle interpretation, stage-gate decisions, exceptions, and deviations within delegated authority, and aligns stakeholders across first-, second-, and third-line functions.
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Job description

Early Warning seeks an Enterprise Product Owner to drive the Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) strategy and governance across product, technology, risk, compliance, internal audit, and executive stakeholders. The role ensures scalable delivery capabilities, audit-readiness, and alignment with regulatory expectations.

In this hybrid position, you will oversee prioritized programs, embed risk requirements into lifecycle execution, and partner with executive teams to enable disciplined