Portfolio Manager IT

Arizona State University; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Arizona State University is seeking an IT Project Specialist 4 in Tempe to lead portfolio strategy, coordinate roadmaps, and oversee investments across technology programs. The role partners with executives, product owners, and delivery teams to translate priorities into actionable plans and drive successful outcomes.

The position emphasizes collaboration in a matrixed organization, alignment with Enterprise Technology, and leveraging AI trends to improve portfolio performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent experience/training.
• 7 years of experience in related field or equivalent combination.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain strategic portfolio direction and priorities.
• Develop and communicate an integrated portfolio roadmap across products, programs and projects.
• Provide oversight of budgets, forecasts, investments and resources.
• Identify risks, dependencies and opportunities affecting delivery.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and teams to align product strategy and roadmaps.
• Prepare materials for executives and senior leadership decisions.

Education

Bachelor's degree

7 years experience

Job description

Job Profile

IT Project Specialist 4

Job Family

IT Project Management

Time Type

Full time

Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree and seven (7) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Job Profile Summary

Works closely and collaboratively with project managers and product managers to assist with complex tactical tasks for project/product execution; develops and maintains relationships with the project/product team members; is committed to project/product success.

Job Description

The Portfolio Manager IT provides strategic leadership and oversight for a portfolio of technology investments, products, programs, and projects within Arizona State University's Enterprise Technology organization. The Portfolio Manager partners with executive leaders, functional stakeholders, Product Owners, Project Managers, and technical teams to ensure portfolio investments and resources are aligned with university and Enterprise Technology strategies, priorities, and desired outcomes.

Serving as a key connection point between strategy and execution, the Portfolio Manager helps establish and maintain the strategic direction of the portfolio and translates organizational priorities into an integrated portfolio roadmap. The position maintains visibility across product roadmaps, programs, projects, and other significant portfolio activities to understand dependencies, investment needs, resource demands, risks, and opportunities.

The Portfolio Manager facilitates portfolio-level prioritization and planning, helping stakeholders make informed decisions regarding investments, sequencing, capacity, and resource allocation. The position provides high-level oversight of portfolio budgets, monitors portfolio performance, and evaluates progress toward expected outcomes and benefits.

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into university technology products, services, and business processes, the Portfolio Manager maintains awareness of AI technologies, capabilities, opportunities, limitations, and emerging considerations. The position collaborates with functional and technical stakeholders to understand how AI-enabled products and initiatives affect portfolio strategy, investment decisions, roadmaps, resource requirements, risk, and expected outcomes.

Success in this role requires the ability to operate effectively in a highly collaborative, matrixed environment. The Portfolio Manager develops strong relationships across functional and technical teams, facilitates productive conversations among stakeholders with differing priorities, and identifies shared interests and mutually beneficial solutions. The Portfolio Manager must be able to synthesize complex information, communicate effectively with audiences ranging from executives to delivery teams, and provide the transparency and insights necessary for effective portfolio decision-making.

Salary Range

$100,000 - $115,000; DOE

Essential Duties

• Partner with executive and senior stakeholders to establish and maintain strategic direction, priorities, and desired outcomes for the portfolio.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate an integrated portfolio roadmap encompassing relevant products, programs, projects, and strategic initiatives.
• Facilitate portfolio prioritization and investment discussions with executive, functional, product, and technical stakeholders.
• Provide high-level oversight of portfolio budgets, forecasts, planned investments, and resource requirements.
• Establish and maintain portfolio-level measures, reporting, dashboards, and other mechanisms that provide stakeholders with meaningful insight into portfolio health and performance.
• Identify and communicate portfolio-level risks, issues, dependencies, constraints, and opportunities that may affect strategic objectives or successful delivery.
• Facilitate decisions regarding competing priorities, sequencing, resource allocation, and portfolio tradeoffs.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners and product teams to understand product strategy, roadmaps, lifecycle considerations, and investment needs.
• Connect product, project, program, operational, and strategic perspectives to provide stakeholders with an integrated view of the portfolio.
• Foster cooperative, matrixed working relationships across organizational boundaries by identifying stakeholder needs, concerns, interests, and shared objectives.
• Develop presentations, recommendations, analyses, and executive-level communications to support portfolio planning and decision-making.
• Continuously evaluate portfolio composition and performance and recommend adjustments based on changing strategies, priorities, capacity, risks, and organizational needs
• Leverage AI in routine tasks and contribute ideas for using AI to improve the unit's efficiency and overall performance.
• Take responsibility for fostering a positive culture, upholding organizational values, and championing engagement in all its forms.
• Collaborate across teams and actively participate in ET/ASU events and programs.

Desired Qualifications

• Evidence of PMP or PgMP certifications or equivalent of 4 years of project/program management experience.
• Experience managing or providing strategic oversight for a portfolio of technology products, programs, projects, investments, or initiatives in a large, complex organization.
• Strong understanding of the relationships among portfolio management, product management, program management, and project management.
• Experience facilitating prioritization and investment decisions involving competing initiatives, limited resources, dependencies, and differing stakeholder needs.
• Experience evaluating organizational capacity, resource demand, and resource allocation across multiple initiatives.
• Knowledge of artificial intelligence concepts, technologies, capabilities, limitations, and trends, including generative AI and its potential applications within an enterprise environment.
• Ability to evaluate AI-enabled initiatives from a strategic and portfolio perspective, including potential value, investment requirements, resource implications, dependencies, organizational impacts, and risk.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and communicate portfolio-level risks, dependencies, constraints, and tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical, financial, and strategic information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience preparing and presenting portfolio information, recommendations, and decision materials to executives and senior leadership.
• Demonstrated success working in a highly matrixed organization where influence, collaboration, and relationship-building are critical to achieving outcomes.
• Knowledge of portfolio governance, demand management, capacity planning, prioritization frameworks, and portfolio performance management practices.
• Familiarity with multiple technology delivery approaches, including Agile, product-oriented, iterative, and traditional project delivery methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to model empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence.
• Experience in a values-driven organization with a strong commitment to inclusion and belonging.
• Ability to cultivate a psychologically safe environment where all team members can thrive.
• Capacity to inspire and drive meaningful change in individual, institutional, and corporate behaviors to support a more sustainable environment.
• Commitment to leading by example through effective communication, active participation, and advocacy for the institution's sustainability programs.

Working Environment

• Activities primarily take place in a standard, climate-controlled office environment and may involve extended periods of sitting, standing, or moving between office spaces.
• This role involves regular use of a computer (desktop and/or laptop), including a keyboard and mouse.
• Required to stand for varying lengths of time and walk moderate distances to perform work.

Department Statement

ET is a rapidly reconfigurable and entrepreneurial organization at ASU that prioritizes and executes to meet the needs of our community of learners, faculty, researchers and staff. Our work emphasizes autonomy, flexibility and distributed decision-making to leverage the strengths of individuals. Together, we embrace a culture that nurtures, engages and embraces many voices with a shared lens of positive community impact and expanded opportunities for collaboration.

Why join us?

Mission oriented. Everything we do is to advance ASU's charter -- measuring who we include and how they succeed. We are staunch champions of learner success and put people first.

Flexibility. Our flexible work environment allows employees to explore opportunities with their supervisor beyond the traditional work schedule. Opportunities include hybrid work where staff are in person three days per week.Culture forward. We embrace a Positive Core culture: Belonging, Relational, Authentic, Visionary and Empowered.

Scale of impact. Our work changes the world. With 200k+ learners, faculty, researchers and staff, working with ET means you have the capacity to improve many lives and entire communities.

World-class, low cost education. Our professional development is built in! ET encourages staff to seek additional certificates and degrees via ASU's top ranked programs with major tuition breaks.

Exposure to industry giants. ET partners with Amazon, Apple, Arista, Cox, Verizon, Salesforce, Alteryx and a diversity of technology companies to enhance our innovations and deepen their impact.

Driving Requirement

Driving is not required for this position.

Location

Campus: Tempe

Funding

No Federal Funding

Graduate Assistant, Intern and part-time positions are counted as half time for experience equivalency, meaning one year equals six months of experience.

Only electronic applications will be accepted for this position. By submitting an application, you confirm that the information provided is accurate and complete.

ASU Statement

Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 100,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions inclusive excellence, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.

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