IT PMO Director: Enterprise Strategy & Delivery

Shield AI; United States; On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Shield AI seeks a Director of IT PMO to shape strategy, governance, and delivery discipline for enterprise technology initiatives. You will lead a high-visibility portfolio spanning applications, ERP, cybersecurity, cloud, data, and AI enablement, partnering with executives to translate strategy into measurable outcomes.

The role requires deep experience building and maturing an enterprise PMO, strong leadership of program teams, and the ability to deliver predictable results across complex

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in technology program management or related enterprise IT leadership roles.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing PMO, program management, project management, portfolio-management, or enterprise-transformation teams.
• Demonstrated experience building or maturing an enterprise IT PMO in a complex, rapidly evolving, or high-growth organization.
• Proven success leading large-scale, multi-year technology transformation programs with significant business impact, cross-functional dependencies, and executive visibility.
• Strong experience governing portfolios that include enterprise applications, ERP, cloud, infrastructure, data platforms, integrations, and end-user technologies.
• Exceptional communication, influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to engage effectively with executives, technical teams, and business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the strategic vision, operating model, and multi-year maturity roadmap for the enterprise IT PMO.
• Establish portfolio governance, intake, prioritization, funding, resource planning, stage-gate reviews, and escalation processes for technology initiatives.
• Lead a portfolio of strategic enterprise programs spanning business applications, ERP, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud platforms, data and analytics, AI enablement, enterprise integrations, and end-user technology.
• Partner with IT and business leadership to translate corporate priorities into a balanced, sequenced, and executable technology roadmap.
• Define and enforce common program and project management methodologies, delivery standards, templates, controls, and performance metrics across the IT organization.
• Build and lead a high-performing team of program managers, project managers, portfolio analysts, and business operations personnel; establish clear roles, career paths, coaching, and performance expectations.
• Oversee delivery of large, complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, risks, security requirements, and business outcomes are actively managed.
• Establish executive-level portfolio reporting that provides transparent visibility into project health, milestones, financial performance, dependencies, resource capacity, delivery risks, and decision requirements.
• Create and maintain an integrated technology portfolio roadmap, including interdependencies across business functions, technology domains, vendors, and enterprise transformation programs.
• Drive disciplined demand management and business-case development, including strategic alignment, cost estimates, benefits realization, implementation effort, risk assessment, and operating-model impacts.
• Partner with Finance and IT leadership to manage technology investment planning, budget tracking, forecast accuracy, capitalization processes, vendor spend, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Implement benefits-realization practices to measure whether completed initiatives achieve intended operational, financial, security, compliance, and business outcomes.
• Lead program risk management, issue resolution, executive escalation, and recovery planning for initiatives that are off track or at risk of failing to meet commitments.
• Establish resource-management practices that improve allocation, capacity planning, prioritization, utilization visibility, and delivery predictability across internal teams and strategic partners.
• Partner closely with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Business Systems, Data, Finance, Legal, People, and business unit leadership to align execution plans with enterprise strategy and operational readiness.
• Oversee relationships with systems integrators, implementation partners, consultants, and strategic technology vendors; ensure vendor delivery commitments, milestones, quality, and commercial obligations are actively governed.
• Advance adoption of modern delivery practices, including Agile, hybrid, and product-oriented operating models, appropriately matched to the nature of the work.
• Drive continuous improvement through portfolio analytics, post-implementation reviews, lessons learned, delivery-health assessments, and PMO maturity measurements.
• Ensure programs appropriately address security, privacy, compliance, audit, data-governance, and change-management requirements.
• Provide leadership during critical incidents, enterprise transformations, and high-visibility executive escalations as required.

Skills

Program management

Leadership

Portfolio governance

Stakeholder management

Communication

Agile/Hybrid delivery

Tools

Planview

Jira

Smartsheet

Asana

Microsoft Project

Job description

Shield AI seeks a Director of IT PMO to shape strategy, governance, and delivery discipline for enterprise technology initiatives. You will lead a high-visibility portfolio spanning applications, ERP, cybersecurity, cloud, data, and AI enablement, partnering with executives to translate strategy into measurable outcomes.

The role requires deep experience building and maturing an enterprise PMO, strong leadership of program teams, and the ability to deliver predictable results across complex