Portfolio Delivery Lead - Cross-Team Strategy & Execution

missionlane; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Mission Lane seeks an experienced Delivery Lead to establish and drive the delivery approach for a portfolio function handling credit decisions and progress programs. You will shape discovery, prioritization, coordination, and the operating model as the function evolves.

You will define planning, tracking, and reporting standards, guide multi‑team initiatives, surface risks early, and explain trade-offs to senior leaders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years delivering complex cross-functional programs.
• Experience establishing delivery structures, processes, or engagement models.
• Experience defining delivery standards or metrics adopted beyond the originating team.
• Strong coordination skills, including anticipating uncertainty and adapting to late changes.
• Confident executive communication and facilitation; ability to recommend and explain trade-offs.
• Ability to travel for in-person collaboration several times a year.

Responsibilities

• Design how portfolio work is planned, tracked, reviewed, and communicated, using outcomes and stakeholder needs to guide the approach.
• Lead discovery and early risk assessment for initiatives that span multiple teams.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams, surface unknowns early, and drive resolution of cross-functional delivery issues.
• Guide sequencing and priority decisions as plans develop, and explain trade-offs and recommendations to senior leaders.
• Establish delivery standards and measures, and refine them with the teams doing the work.
• Coach other delivery professionals through informal guidance and example.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Delivery coaching

Travel willingness

Job description

Mission Lane seeks an experienced Delivery Lead to establish and drive the delivery approach for a portfolio function handling credit decisions and progress programs. You will shape discovery, prioritization, coordination, and the operating model as the function evolves.

You will define planning, tracking, and reporting standards, guide multi‑team initiatives, surface risks early, and explain trade-offs to senior leaders.