Director of Tech Strategy & Governance

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Overview

This role serves as a strategic partner to senior technology leadership, providing governance, financial discipline, and execution rigor across a large-scale digital and technology investment portfolio. Acting as a trusted advisor, this position ensures clarity, accountability, and impact across initiatives while enabling executive leaders to remain focused on vision, strategy, and transformation.

The role sits at the intersection of technology strategy, financial management, and enterprise execution. It offers high visibility, broad influence, and the opportunity to shape outcomes across major programs and planning initiatives—making it an ideal platform for experienced consulting or strategy leaders transitioning into senior enterprise roles.

Key Responsibilities Technology Portfolio Governance & Strategy

• Serve as the central governing function for enterprise technology investment programs, including intake, prioritization, and approval processes.
• Establish and maintain standardized processes, documentation, and reporting across all initiatives.
• Ensure every initiative has a clear business case, defined KPIs, executive sponsorship, and documented outcomes.
• Provide strategic recommendations on investment trade-offs and resource allocation to maximize business value.
• Lead the annual technology budget planning cycle in close partnership with Finance.
• Consolidate capital funding requests and track actuals versus plan.
• Manage variance analysis, forecasting, and forward‑looking scenario planning across run, grow, and transform investments.
• Provide disciplined budget tracking and financial transparency across the portfolio.

Executive & Stakeholder Engagement

• Develop executive‑level scorecards and dashboards covering financials, risks, KPIs, and program performance.
• Prepare materials for senior leadership, executive committees, and board‑level discussions.
• Drive alignment and accountability across senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, offering insights that inform strategic direction and decision‑making.
• Maintain a single source of truth for major initiatives, including charters, timelines, dependencies, and status.
• Proactively identify risks, elevate issues, and facilitate resolution across cross‑functional teams.
• Support large, complex programs with execution discipline and standardized delivery practices.
• Coordinate quarterly business reviews and performance scorecards for key vendors.
• Assess vendor performance against strategic objectives, financial guardrails, and delivery expectations.
• Identify opportunities to optimize partnerships and improve outcomes.

Leadership Enablement

• Orchestrate leadership meetings and offsites, including agenda development, materials preparation, decision capture, and follow‑ups.
• Facilitate workshops to align priorities, resolve cross‑functional challenges, and drive consensus.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Proven experience executing and supporting large, complex enterprise programs
  .
• Strong understanding of strategic planning initiatives
  , portfolio management, and investment governance.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with senior stakeholders and executive leadership
  , influencing outcomes in a matrixed environment.
• Background in strategy, consulting, program leadership, or business operations —
  engineering or hands‑on technical background not required
  .
• Comfort operating as a trusted advisor at the executive level, with strong judgment and discretion.

What You Bring

• 6+ years of relevant experience in technology strategy, portfolio management, consulting, or business operations; bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Prior experience in a management consulting environment, ideally supporting technology‑enabled transformations.
• Strong strategic and analytical thinking skills, with the ability to distill complex information into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Advanced financial acumen, including budget management, forecasting, and investment analysis.
• Exceptional executive communication skills with experience producing senior‑leadership and board‑ready deliverables.
• Proven ability to influence and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Strong program leadership and change management capabilities.
• Experience managing third‑party vendors, contracts, and enterprise tooling ecosystems.

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology, Finance, and Strategy/Planning

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