Director, HR Technology Portfolio & Program Management

About this role

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What you'll do during a typical day:
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• Lead integrated portfolio planning across HR Technology, maintaining visibility into initiatives, milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, and delivery commitments.

• Manage portfolio intake and prioritization processes, providing leaders with the data, capacity insights, dependencies, and tradeoffs needed to make informed decisions.

• Provide program management leadership for major cross-functional HR Technology initiatives, coordinating workstreams, milestones, dependencies, decisions, risks, and implementation readiness.

• Establish consistent portfolio governance and delivery standards, proactively identifying risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints and driving resolution and escalation.

• Lead resource and capacity planning across the portfolio, partnering with internal teams and external partners to align demand, capacity, and delivery commitments.

• Lead portfolio reviews, steering committees, planning cycles, and executive reporting, translating complex program information into clear insights, recommendations, and decisions.

• Coordinate execution across HR Technology, HR Centers of Excellence, Enterprise Technology, regional teams, vendors, and implementation partners.

• Partner with product and business leaders to establish program success measures and track delivery against intended business and operational outcomes.

• Establish program management and governance practices for AI-enabled HR Technology initiatives, including readiness, dependencies, adoption, risk, and outcome tracking.

• Modernize portfolio and program management practices through AI, automation, analytics, and modern tooling to improve planning, reporting, risk identification, and organizational productivity.

• Establish scalable standards, tools, and practices that strengthen delivery discipline while simplifying processes and reducing unnecessary administrative burden.

How you'll collaborate with others:
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• Partner with HR Technology Product leaders to translate product roadmaps and priorities into integrated delivery plans, resource requirements, milestones, and…