Director, Strategic PMO

Role Summary

We are seeking a senior PMO leader to oversee a complex, multiyear, multi‑workstream strategic partnership involving co‑innovation, solution development, services delivery, product integration, and coordinated GTM activation.

This role serves as the central program leader responsible for ensuring operational rigor, workstream discipline, cross‑functional synchronization, structured governance, and predictable execution across all partnership activities. The PMO Lead ensures that all workstream sponsors follow through on their commitments, business cases, and delivery milestones while also coordinating closely with internal functions such as legal, sourcing, finance, product, engineering, partner marketing, and field teams.

This is a high‑visibility role that requires exceptional program leadership, strong commercial acumen, and experience orchestrating complex cross‑functional initiatives in fast‑moving environments.

• Governance & Operating Cadence
  • Own and operate the end‑to‑end governance model across all participating organizations.
  • Establish and run structured partnership cadences, including monthly, quarterly, and executive level reviews.
  • Manage issue and risk escalation processes across workstream, program, and executive levels.
  • Maintain clear and consistent communication loops between workstream owners, alliance management, executive sponsors, and technical leadership.
  • Establish and maintain a structured PMO operating model aligned to multi‑year strategic investments.
• Workstream Oversight
  • Oversee execution quality and pacing across all defined work streams, which may include areas such as presales support, value realization, consulting delivery, product integration, GTM enablement, and innovation programs.
  • Ensure each workstream maintains clear deliverables, KPIs, milestones, risks, business case assumptions, and success measurements.
  • Track progress across all work streams through standardized dashboards, status reviews, and structured accountability mechanisms.
• SOW Development, Contracting & Compliance
  • Lead the orchestration of Statements of Work (SOWs) across all work streams.
  • Coordinate with internal legal, sourcing, finance, and relevant workstream sponsors to ensure timely drafting, review, negotiation, and execution of all SOWs.
  • Maintain a comprehensive view of all contractual obligations, delivery timelines, dependencies, and cross‑functional requirements.
  • Monitor SLA compliance for approvals, and onboarding.
• Product & Engineering Integration Program Management
  • Partner closely with product and engineering teams to ensure that roadmap integration commitments are clearly defined, resourced, and progressing as planned.
  • Track end‑to‑end delivery of technical integration milestones.
  • Ensure alignment between engineering delivery, workstream interdependencies, and GTM timelines.
• GTM, Partner Marketing & Field Alignment
  • Drive coordinated GTM execution across partner marketing, sales, and alliance leadership.
  • Ensure the creation of messaging, positioning, enablement assets, solution packaging, and field‑ready materials.
  • Support demand generation initiatives, joint marketing motions, and field activation programs.
  • Partner with the partner management team to track adoption metrics, pipeline influence, and revenue‑aligned outcomes associated with the joint solutions.
• Investment Oversight/Management
  • Maintain comprehensive oversight of the company’s multi‑year strategic commitment with the external partner under the governing commercial agreement.
  • Track all spending across work streams, ensuring alignment to agreed upon annual and total targets set forth in the partnership framework.
  • Reconcile all eligible fees, monitor burn rate, and validate quarterly spend reports received from the partner, including identifying discrepancies and driving resolution through the governance process.
  • Ensure spend progress is accurately reflected against each workstream’s commitments, success measures, and performance expectations.
  • Maintain real‑time visibility into pacing, forecasts, risks, and remaining balance toward the overall spend commitment, providing structured insights to senior leadership.
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