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As the organization accelerates investment in new products, shared product, engineering, and design, capacity has become its most constrained and strategically valuable resource. The Senior Director, Portfolio & Program Management establishes and leads the enterprise portfolio function that governs how this capacity is allocated and deployed. This role provides end-to-end visibility into the product development portfolio, ensuring alignment between strategic priorities and execution while enabling leadership to make informed, data-driven investment decisions.This is a charter-level role, serving as the connective layer between segment demand and engineering supply, and acting as the single source of truth on the state of the development portfolio for the President, CTO, CPO, and CFO.\nEssential Duties & Responsibilities:\nPortfolio Governance & Visibility\nOwn and deliver the enterprise capacity scorecard, providing a clear and recurring view of how shared resources are allocated and whether deployment aligns with business priorities. \nBuild and maintain the single source of truth for all product development initiatives, including scope, ownership, dependencies, risk, status, and forecasts. \nSurface insights on misalignment, overcommitment, and emerging delivery risks. \nTeam Leadership & Function Build\nBuild and lead the program management function, aligning resources to product domains and business segments. \nRecruit, develop, and scale a high-performing team of program managers. \nEstablish a durable operating model that evolves with growth. \nExecutive Decision Support\nLead the recurring portfolio review forum with executive leadership, structuring discussions, framing tradeoffs, and enabling prioritization decisions. \nPresent clear, data-backed options when demand exceeds available capacity. \nCapture decisions and ensure alignment and follow-through across stakeholders. \nResource Allocation & Capacity Planning\nOperate the enterprise resource allocation process across segments and product initiatives, making both supply and demand transparent and actionable. \nIdentify and escalate capacity conflicts, dependency risks, and delivery constraints early. \nEnsure ongoing alignment between strategic direction and weekly/monthly capacity deployment. \nOperating Model & Delivery Discipline\nEstablish scalable, lightweight standards for status reporting, risk management, and forecasting across delivery teams. \nDrive a consistent operating cadence that enables decision-making without introducing unnecessary process overhead. \nClearly distinguish between portfolio governance and delivery execution reporting. \nFinancial Integration & Investment Management\nPartner with Finance to integrate engineering investment tracking into portfolio reporting, including cost-per-initiative, capex/opex classification, and domain-level spend. \nEnable visibility into ROI and benefits realization for completed initiatives and incorporate learnings into prioritization. \nLink capacity allocation decisions to financial outcomes and investment performance. \nMinimum Qualifications:\n8+ years of proven experience leading a portfolio or PMO function within a product-led, software-driven organization, with an emphasis on outcomes over process compliance. \nDemonstrated success in converting business priorities into actionable portfolio decisions, including resource allocation, sequencing, and tradeoffs. \nExecutive Influence: Strong presence with senior leadership; skilled at communicating complex tradeoffs clearly and influencing decisions without direct authority. \nFinancial Acumen: Demonstrated understanding of engineering investment economics, including capex/opex treatment, cost modeling, and ROI analysis. \nData & Systems Discipline: Experience building accurate, scalable portfolio reporting using tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or portfolio management platforms, with pragmatic use of AI-supported insights. \nOperating Cadence: Ability to design and sustain governance rhythms that drive decisions and accountability. \nBuild & Scale Mindset: Experience standing up new functions and evolving them into scalable organizational capabilities. \nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience in ticketing, sports technology, live entertainment, or comparable multi-segment B2B SaaS environments. \nPay Transparency:\nThe approximate national base pay range for this position is $172,000 to $215,000. 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