Technology Portfolio Governance Lead

Gap Inc.; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Merchandise discount

Competitive PTO

Job summary

Gap Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Technology Portfolio Governance to join the Strategy & Governance team within the Global Technology Organization (GTO) and own the operational backbone of governance, including planning, portfolio governance, demand intake, and vendor/resource planning.

The role partners with TPMs, Product/Delivery Managers, Engineering, and Finance to ensure accurate demand, capacity, and reporting across the GTS portfolio.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience in technology portfolio governance, demand/capacity management, resource planning, or vendor operations - ideally within a large-scale enterprise or retail technology environment.
• Strong Agile and Quarterly Planning process experience; able to translate engineering demand into structured, funded capacity plans.
• Hands-on proficiency in Jira and Jira Product Discovery (JPD) for roadmap and demand structuring, plus Clarity for resource and financial tracking.
• Solid project management fundamentals and knowledge on planning, dependency tracking, and status reporting across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Working knowledge of project finance Capex/Expense distinctions, budget-to-actuals tracking, and funding ceiling management.
• Working knowledge of managing vendor delivery operations, including SOW governance, headcount-based contracts, and demand-capacity alignment across multiple product teams.
• Comfortable coordinating across a wide stakeholder set of TPMs, PDMs, Engineering leads, Finance, and vendor account teams; without formal authority over all of them.
• Exceptional process rigor; able to define intake workflows, enforce compliance, and hold stakeholders accountable without being bureaucratic.
• Clear, direct, insight-first communicator; experience presenting operational data and risk flags to senior technology leadership.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity; can design structures where none exists and build stakeholder trust quickly.
• Comfort working alongside Ai-enabled tooling and automation in a governance, reporting, or PMO context.
• Prior experience in an offshore earshore vendor governance model.
• Familiarity with Capex/Expense project accounting in technology portfolios.
• Experience in retail, apparel, or consumer-facing technology organizations.
• Exposure to PMO or TMO operating models, portfolio health reporting, and QP governance ceremonies

Responsibilities

• Support the Annual and Quarterly Planning process by consolidating portfolio demand, capacity, and financial baselines across GTS into a single, accurate planning input for portfolio stakeholders; own the supporting governance documentation and standards
• Own the demand intake process for the GTS portfolio end-to-end, defining/adopting the intake template and workflow, ensuring every submission carries clear scope, funding, and guardrails before it enters planning
• Own the demand-capacity planning and reconciliation, coordinating with PdMs, TPMs, Engineering, and Finance to close gaps before they become delivery risk
• Own resource planning across both MSP and non-MSP populations, validating funding, own resource mapping and ensuring clean onboarding into Clarity and Jira
• Own Clarity resource data hygiene, enforcing accuracy, audit on a recurring cadence, and fix root causes with system owners rather than repeat corrections
• Track vendor and MSP utilization against contracted capacity ceilings, resolving allocation and demand discrepancies, and flag risk to finance and portfolio governance
• Own managed services process governance on vendor timesheet compliance and Clarity allocation accuracy partnering with vendor account leads on standards adherence
• Enable stakeholders through training materials and standing office hours for TPM and Engineering teams, keeping demand and delivery data accurate across reporting and carryover tracking
• Produce recurring portfolio reporting and own supporting sections of quarterly leadership readouts, partnering with Finance on Capex/Expense reconciliation and the Director on final materials

Skills

Portfolio governance

Demand/capacity management

Resource planning

Vendor operations

Agile methodologies

Quarterly Planning

Communication with leadership

Tools

Jira

Jira Product Discovery

Clarity

Job description

Gap Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Technology Portfolio Governance to join the Strategy & Governance team within the Global Technology Organization (GTO) and own the operational backbone of governance, including planning, portfolio governance, demand intake, and vendor/resource planning.

The role partners with TPMs, Product/Delivery Managers, Engineering, and Finance to ensure accurate demand, capacity, and reporting across the GTS portfolio.