Remote Principal Delivery Leader, Portfolio Management

Mission Lane LLC; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 145,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Wellness stipend

Health/dental/vision insurance

Disability coverage

Paid parental leave

FSA

Life insurance

Remote-first environment

Job summary

Mission Lane is actively seeking a Principal Delivery Manager to own delivery across Portfolio Management, reporting to the Senior Director, Portfolio Prioritization & Delivery. You will help shape how work is planned, sequenced, and delivered as the first dedicated delivery team is stood up.

In this remote-first environment, you will set standards, build engagement models, and coach other delivery professionals while partnering with executive leadership on trade-offs and roadmap alignment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience delivering complex, cross-functional programs, including initiatives that span multiple organizations.
• Track record of building delivery structure, processes, or engagement models where no established approach existed, and seeing them adopted.
• Experience defining delivery metrics or standards that were later adopted beyond the team that created them.
• Experience coordinating across organizations, anticipating unknowns, and handling late changes without disruption to the work.
• Strong executive-level communication and facilitation skills.
• Experience informally guiding or coaching other delivery professionals without formal management authority.
• Ability to travel ~4+ times per year for high quality in person collaboration.

Responsibilities

• The delivery strategy and model for Portfolio Management, including how work is planned, tracked, reviewed, and communicated to executives, built around the outcomes its internal customers need
• Creatively changing how we deliver to drive faster impact across the organization as technology and working models rapidly shift
• Delivery discovery for multi-team initiatives, so large commitments are scoped and de-risked before work begins
• Coordination across every team Portfolio Management touches, with dependencies and unknowns surfaced early and complex cross-team problems identified proactively and driven to a solution
• The engagement model for Portfolio Management, covering execution planning, release planning, and how teams stay in step with each other and with executive leadership
• Delivery standards for Portfolio Management, built from the themes you see across its work
• Informal guidance for fellow Delivery Managers as delivery practice takes shape

Skills

Executive-level communication

Facilitation skills

Coaching others

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Mission Lane is actively seeking a Principal Delivery Manager to own delivery across Portfolio Management, reporting to the Senior Director, Portfolio Prioritization & Delivery. You will help shape how work is planned, sequenced, and delivered as the first dedicated delivery team is stood up.

In this remote-first environment, you will set standards, build engagement models, and coach other delivery professionals while partnering with executive leadership on trade-offs and roadmap alignment.