Strategic PMO Lead

D.R. Horton; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

401(k)

Employee stock purchase plan

Flex spending accounts

Life & disability insurance

Vacation, holidays & personal time

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking a Strategic PMO Lead to turn investments in data, AI, and digital capabilities into disciplined execution and measurable outcomes across the portfolio.

You will create visibility, planning cadences, dependency management, and financial tracking to help leaders focus on the work that matters. The ideal candidate combines execution rigor with business judgment, bringing structure to an evolving environment and delivering timely decisions, risk signals, and clear

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Program Management, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of program, portfolio, transformation, PMO, product operations, or related experience in complex cross-functional environments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple interdependent initiatives and communicate clearly with senior stakeholders.
• Strong planning, facilitation, risk management, financial tracking, and executive reporting skills.
• Experience with agile, product, or hybrid delivery models.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment.
• Build trusted relationships across the organization, balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities.

Responsibilities

• Establish lightweight portfolio governance, planning cadences, stage gates, dependency management, and executive reporting
• Maintain an integrated view of priority initiatives, platform work, staffing, vendors, budgets, risks, decisions, and milestones
• Drive follow-through on actions and decisions across product, engineering, governance, business, and partner teams
• Support quarterly and annual planning, capacity allocation, investment choices, and portfolio rebalancing
• Identify delivery risks early and facilitate decisions to resolve scope, resource, dependency, or ownership issues
• Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous-improvement activities as appropriate
• Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices and apply new capabilities when they create practical business value
• Identify, shape, and pilot new opportunities where data, AI, and digital capabilities can create business value, operating with an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly
• Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner
• Ability to travel overnight

Skills

Planning

Facilitation

Risk management

Financial tracking

Executive reporting

Cross-functional comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Technology/PM/Engineering or related field

Job description

Description

D.R. Horton, Inc., the largest homebuilder in the U.S., was founded in 1978 and is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. It is engaged in the construction and sale of high-quality homes designed principally for the entry-level and first time move-up markets. The Company also provides mortgage financing and title services for homebuyers through its mortgage and title subsidiaries. Please visit our website at www.drhorton.com for more information. As the nation's largest homebuilder by volume, D.R. Horton is transforming how it uses data, AI, and digital solutions for the next generation of homebuilding, and we pair the reach of a national enterprise with a culture built on local ownership, practical innovation, and deep business partnerships. Our teams focus on solutions that work in the field and deliver real results, not technology for its own sake. In this role, you'll have a critical opportunity to shape modern capabilities that will influence how the company operates for years to come.

Strategic PMO Lead

The PMO Lead will help turn investment in data, AI, and digital capabilities into disciplined execution and measurable outcomes. This role will create portfolio visibility, planning rhythms, dependency management, financial tracking, and decision support that help leaders focus resources on the work that matters most. The ideal candidate combines execution rigor with business judgment and can bring structure to an evolving environment without creating unnecessary process. Success in this role means leaders have a trusted, current view of the portfolio, decisions are made on time, and delivery risks surface early enough to act.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Establish lightweight portfolio governance, planning cadences, stage gates, dependency management, and executive reporting
• Maintain an integrated view of priority initiatives, platform work, staffing, vendors, budgets, risks, decisions, and milestones
• Drive follow-through on actions and decisions across product, engineering, governance, business, and partner teams
• Support quarterly and annual planning, capacity allocation, investment choices, and portfolio rebalancing
• Identify delivery risks early and facilitate decisions to resolve scope, resource, dependency, or ownership issues
• Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous-improvement activities as appropriate
• Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices and apply new capabilities when they create practical business value
• Identify, shape, and pilot new opportunities where data, AI, and digital capabilities can create business value, operating with an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly
• Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner
• Ability to travel overnight

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Program Management, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 7 + years of program, portfolio, transformation, PMO, product operations, or related experience in complex cross-functional environments
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple interdependent initiatives and communicate clearly with senior stakeholders
• Strong planning, facilitation, risk management, financial tracking, and executive reporting skills.
• Experience with agile, product, or hybrid delivery models
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment
• Build trusted relationships across the organization, balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, PgMP, agile, product operations, or comparable certification, and experience with portfolio tooling and AI-assisted planning or reporting, is a plus
• Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business is a plus
• Experience working in a large enterprise with complex enterprise environments is preferred
• Experience founding, incubating, or building new products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up is a plus

Come join a winning team with a Fortune 500 company! We are growing fast and are looking for enthusiastic attitudes and team players to join our success. We offer an excellent benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401(K)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Company Holidays
• Multiple Voluntary and Company provided Benefits

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