Senior Director, Agile Portfolio Management

Define, establish and operate the Portfolio Delivery Office, including working principles, key processes and cultural transformation. Tailor industry best practice to meet the specific needs of Skyhigh Security

Refine the role of the programme managers & develop the team to work effectively with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and Product Marketing as part of the Skyhigh SDLC in a high trust / high accountability environment

Manage the allocation of programme managers in-line with demand

Ensure that key cross-functional initiatives have clear leadership and coordination and that portfolio dependencies and risks are managed

Drive a consistent approach to NPI that spans across the Product, GTM, and Delivery organizations to ensure product investments are effectively delivering value to customers

Create a consistent approach to portfolio delivery & work tracking, driving data and reporting into the toolchain (Jira etc) wherever possible

Explicit tracking of workforce allocation against business defined goals and budget guardrails

Maintain explicit linkage of strategy to execution through annual, quarterly and monthly cycles

Monthly and quarterly reporting to business executive

Coordination of annual portfolio planning in cooperation with sales operations and customer operations.

Create and maintain transparent access to portfolio delivery information

Foster operational excellence with a focus on transparent KPIs

Instill a learning culture with continuous improvement. Harvest best practices, identify bottlenecks and streamline the product portfolio process

Strong Agile practitioner with experience working with large geographically distributed teams

Experience managing the delivery of enterprise software products (SaaS and on premise)

Experience managing product investments from investment decision to value realisation.

Experience leading team transformations to Agile ways of working

Experience working through strategy and investment funding cycles within a software product business

Experience in managing budgets

Familiarity with Agile scaling models LeSS/SAFe etc

Strong influencing skills