Principal Delivery Manager, Portfolio

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

Role overview

Establish and lead the delivery approach for a portfolio function whose work includes credit decisions and programs that recognize customer progress. You will shape how initiatives are discovered, prioritized, coordinated, and delivered, building practices that teams can adopt while the function and its operating model are still taking shape.

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.

Requirements

• At least 8 years delivering complex cross-functional programs, including work across multiple organizations.
• Evidence of creating delivery structures, processes, or engagement models from the ground up and securing their adoption.
• 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, with the ability to recommend and explain trade-offs.
• Experience coaching delivery colleagues without formal management authority; able to travel for in-person collaboration several times a year.

Nice to have

• Experience in portfolio management, capital allocation, credit portfolios, financial services, fintech, or another regulated field; experience launching a new function, process, or center of excellence.