Information Technology Portfolio Manager

LeadStack Inc.; Rosemead (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

LeadStack Inc. in Rosemead, CA is seeking an experienced PMO Portfolio Manager for a 1.5-year contract to drive an integrated technology portfolio with milestones, governance, and stage-gate readiness across multiple workstreams.

The role consolidates budgets, prepares executive-ready reports, and manages risks, issues, decisions, and changes while coordinating vendors and stakeholders in a hybrid onsite setting.

Qualifications

• Ownership of an integrated portfolio with at least three meaningful technology workstreams.
• Joint business and IT PMO experience.
• Portfolio financial management, forecasting, reconciliation, and value tracking.
• Risk, issue, decision, dependency, and change-control discipline.
• Executive communication that converts complexity into clear decisions, consequences, and next steps.
• Ability to drive closure across senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Comfort with hybrid agile and stage-gated governance.
• Credible examples or sanitized work samples of integrated plans, executive reporting, financial rollups, or decision governance.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated portfolio workplan, including milestones, dependencies, critical path, stage-gate readiness, and ownership.
• Consolidate baseline budget, forecast, actuals, contingency, and variance explanations; reconcile the Customer Service view with IT reporting.
• Maintain integrated risks, issues, actions, decisions, dependencies, and changes with owners, dates, escalation thresholds, and aging.
• Prepare weekly and monthly portfolio rollups and concise, decision-ready materials for senior leadership and governance forums.
• Operate governance, intake, and change control for additions, descopes, pauses, and reprioritization.
• Coordinate vendor and contract oversight with Customer Service, IT, Finance, Procurement, and delivery partners.
• Design and maintain the operating model, RACI, governance calendar, escalation paths, and boundary with the existing DXR PMO.
• Support business and IT project-lead pairings without taking over product or workstream delivery accountability.
• Create a durable PMO package with templates, cadence, decision history, and handoff instructions.

Skills

Portfolio ownership

PMO experience

Portfolio finance mgmt

Risk/change control

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Hybrid agile governance

Integrated plan samples

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Location: Rosemead, CA, 91770 - Hybrid onsite - Tu & Wed and as requested

Contract Duration: 1 and half year (08/21/2026 to 02/20/2028)

Pay Rate: $80- $116/hr on W2

Education Requirement

C. Bachelor's Degree

• Own the integrated portfolio workplan, including milestones, dependencies, critical path, stage-gate readiness, and ownership.
• Consolidate baseline budget, forecast, actuals, contingency, and variance explanations; reconcile the Customer Service view with IT reporting.
• Maintain integrated risks, issues, actions, decisions, dependencies, and changes with owners, dates, escalation thresholds, and aging.
• Prepare weekly and monthly portfolio rollups and concise, decision-ready materials for senior leadership and governance forums.
• Operate governance, intake, and change control for additions, descopes, pauses, and reprioritization.
• Coordinate vendor and contract oversight with Customer Service, IT, Finance, Procurement, and delivery partners.
• Design and maintain the operating model, RACI, governance calendar, escalation paths, and boundary with the existing DXR PMO.
• Support business and IT project-lead pairings without taking over product or workstream delivery accountability.
• Create a durable PMO package with templates, cadence, decision history, and handoff instructions.

Required Skills/Attributes

• Ownership of an integrated portfolio with at least three meaningful technology workstreams.
• Joint business and IT PMO experience.
• Portfolio financial management, forecasting, reconciliation, and value tracking.
• Risk, issue, decision, dependency, and change-control discipline.
• Executive communication that converts complexity into clear decisions, consequences, and next steps.
• Ability to drive closure across senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Comfort with hybrid agile and stage-gated governance.
• Credible examples or sanitized work samples of integrated plans, executive reporting, financial rollups, or decision governance.

Desired Skills/Attributes

• Utility or other regulated-industry experience.
• Customer-service technology experience, including conversational AI, contact-center platforms, billing, collections, SAP, or related systems.
• Experience mobilizing a new PMO and leaving a sustainable operating model.
• Familiarity with enterprise portfolio tools and governance forums comparable.
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on artifact creation.