Senior IT PMO Director — Enterprise Portfolio Leader

Shield; United States; Remote; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI seeks a seasoned Director of IT PMO to lead strategy, governance, and delivery discipline for enterprise technology initiatives. This senior leader will oversee a growing portfolio including enterprise applications, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, and data programs, partnering with executives to turn strategy into measurable business outcomes.

The role focuses on establishing operating models, standard methodologies, and performance metrics, while building a high-performing PMO

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in technology program management, project management, portfolio management, business transformation, or related enterprise IT leadership roles.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing PMO, program management, project management, portfolio-management, or enterprise-transformation teams.
• Demonstrated experience building or maturing an enterprise IT PMO in a complex, rapidly evolving, or high-growth organization.
• Proven success leading large-scale, multi-year technology transformation programs with significant business impact, cross-functional dependencies, and executive visibility.
• Strong experience governing portfolios that include enterprise applications, ERP, cloud, infrastructure, data platforms, integrations, and end-user technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the strategic vision, operating model, and multi-year maturity roadmap for the enterprise IT PMO.
• Establish portfolio governance, intake, prioritization, funding, resource planning, stage-gate reviews, and escalation processes for technology initiatives.
• Lead a portfolio of strategic enterprise programs spanning business applications, ERP, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud platforms, data and analytics, AI enablement, enterprise integrations, and end-user technology.
• Partner with IT and business leadership to translate corporate priorities into a balanced, sequenced, and executable technology roadmap.
• Define and enforce common program and project management methodologies, delivery standards, templates, controls, and performance metrics across the IT organization.
• Build and lead a high-performing team of program managers, project managers, portfolio analysts, and business operations personnel; establish clear roles, career paths, coaching, and performance expectations.
• Oversee delivery of large, complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, risks, security requirements, and business outcomes are actively managed.
• Establish executive-level portfolio reporting that provides transparent visibility into project health, milestones, financial performance, dependencies, resource capacity, delivery risks, and decision requirements.
• Create and maintain an integrated technology portfolio roadmap, including interdependencies across business functions, technology domains, vendors, and enterprise transformation programs.
• Drive disciplined demand management and business-case development, including strategic alignment, cost estimates, benefits realization, implementation effort, risk assessment, and operating-model impacts.
• Partner with Finance and IT leadership to manage technology investment planning, budget tracking, forecast accuracy, capitalization processes, vendor spend, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Implement benefits-realization practices to measure whether completed initiatives achieve intended operational, financial, security, compliance, and business outcomes.
• Lead program risk management, issue resolution, executive escalation, and recovery planning for initiatives that are off track or at risk of failing to meet commitments.
• Establish resource-management practices that improve allocation, capacity planning, prioritization, utilization visibility, and delivery predictability across internal teams and strategic partners.

Skills

Technology program management

Portfolio management

Enterprise IT leadership

Executive communication

Agile/hybrid delivery

Tools

Planview

Jira

Smartsheet

Asana

Microsoft Project

Job description

Shield AI seeks a seasoned Director of IT PMO to lead strategy, governance, and delivery discipline for enterprise technology initiatives. This senior leader will oversee a growing portfolio including enterprise applications, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, and data programs, partnering with executives to turn strategy into measurable business outcomes.

The role focuses on establishing operating models, standard methodologies, and performance metrics, while building a high-performing PMO