Strategic Portfolio Director – Product & Engineering (Remote)

Applied Systems, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 159,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Holiday and Vacation Time

Health & Wellness Days

Birthday Bonus Day

Job summary

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

You will connect product and engineering work to the financial plan, define ROI, and establish a robust reporting architecture. This role requires influencing across functions and leadership, including occasional

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.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate portfolio prioritization and tradeoff conversations, enabling productive roadmap decisions for product, engineering, and leadership.
• Connect product and engineering work to the financial plan and ROI; maintain capacity modeling.
• Define the reporting architecture for product and engineering outcomes and translate data into actionable insight.
• Partner across functions on cross-functional programs, aligning senior leaders for critical initiatives.

Skills

12+ years experience

Strategic planning

Cross-functional analysis

Board-ready decks

Data-driven

Executive communication

Job description

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

You will connect product and engineering work to the financial plan, define ROI, and establish a robust reporting architecture. This role requires influencing across functions and leadership, including occasional