Remote Portfolio Strategy Director: Product and Engineering

IVANS Insurance Solutions; United States; On-site; USD 159,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Systems is seeking a Portfolio Strategy Director to sit at the portfolio strategy and operating layer for Product and Engineering. You will build the operating cadence, frameworks, and reporting that help leaders defend decisions and translate portfolio performance for the E-Team and Board.

This role connects product and engineering work to the financial plan, maintains the capacity model, and defines ROI.

Qualifications

• 12+ years combined across product operations, business operations, chief of staff roles, strategy/operations consulting, or high-growth SaaS operations.
• Ability to build an operating model, structure a complex cross-functional analysis, and pull together a board-ready deck in the same week.
• Comfortable being the operational and analytical backbone in a room full of engineers, product managers, and commercial leaders.
• Scrappy enough to pull your own data when the perfect report doesn’t exist yet.
• Communicates naturally across audiences: Teammates, engineering teams, product leaders, C-suite.
• You've built the playbook in places where one didn't exist, then made it repeatable.
• Genuine curiosity about insurance technology and AI commercialization.
• We encourage military members and their spouses as well as candidates without a degree or a background in tech to apply!

Responsibilities

• Facilitate portfolio prioritization and tradeoff conversations. Bring the analysis and frameworks that make roadmap tradeoff conversations productive between product, engineering, and ultimately business leaders.
• Connect product and engineering work to the financial plan. Articulate how the roadmap connects to meeting our long-term financial goals.
• Define the reporting architecture for product and engineering outcomes. Work with engineering and product on what gets measured and when it surfaces.
• Partner across functions on major cross-functional programs. You’ll have a dotted line to the COO and direct access to E-Team conversations.
• When cross-functional tradeoffs between Product, Engineering, Sales, or CX need senior alignment, you bring the framing that makes the decision actionable and ensure the right leaders are in the room.

Skills

Portfolio strategy

Operating cadence

Framework development

Cross-functional leadership

ROI modelling

Board preparation

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Program leadership

Insurance tech interest

Job description

Applied Systems is seeking a Portfolio Strategy Director to sit at the portfolio strategy and operating layer for Product and Engineering. You will build the operating cadence, frameworks, and reporting that help leaders defend decisions and translate portfolio performance for the E-Team and Board.

This role connects product and engineering work to the financial plan, maintains the capacity model, and defines ROI.