Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Portfolio Governance & Visibility

• Own and deliver the enterprise capacity scorecard, providing a clear and recurring view of how shared resources areallocatedand whether deployment aligns with business priorities.
• Build andmaintainthesingle sourceof truth for all product development initiatives, including scope, ownership, dependencies, risk, status, and forecasts.
• Surface insights on misalignment, overcommitment, and emerging delivery risks.

Team Leadership & Function Build

• Build and lead the program management function, aligning resources to product domains and business segments.
• Recruit, develop, and scale a high-performing team of program managers.
• Establish a durable operating model that evolves with growth.

Executive Decision Support

• Lead the recurring portfolio review forum with executive leadership, structuring discussions, framing tradeoffs, and enabling prioritization decisions.
• Present clear, data-backed options when demand exceeds available capacity.
• Capture decisions and ensure alignment and follow-through across stakeholders.

Resource Allocation & Capacity Planning

• Operate the enterprise resource allocation process across segments and product initiatives, making both supply and demand transparent and actionable.
• Identifyand escalate capacity conflicts, dependency risks, and delivery constraints early.
• Ensure ongoing alignment between strategic direction and weekly/monthly capacity deployment.

Operating Model & Delivery Discipline

• Establish scalable, lightweight standards for status reporting, risk management, and forecasting across delivery teams.
• Drive a consistent operating cadence that enables decision-making without introducing unnecessary process overhead.
• Clearly distinguish between portfolio governance and delivery execution reporting.

Financial Integration & Investment Management

• Partner with Finance to integrate engineering investment tracking into portfolio reporting, including cost-per-initiative, capex/opexclassification, and domain-level spend.
• Enable visibility into ROI and benefits realization for completed initiatives and incorporate learnings into prioritization.
• Link capacityallocationdecisions to financial outcomes and investment performance.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ 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.
• Demonstratedsuccess inconvertingbusiness priorities into actionable portfolio decisions, including resource allocation, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Executive Influence:Strong presence with senior leadership; skilled at communicating complex tradeoffs clearly and influencing decisions without direct authority.
• Financial Acumen:Demonstratedunderstanding of engineering investment economics, including capex/opextreatment, cost modeling, and ROI analysis.
• Data & Systems Discipline:Experience buildingaccurate, scalable portfolio reporting using tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or portfolio management platforms, with pragmatic use of AI-supported insights.
• Operating Cadence:Ability to design and sustain governance rhythms that drive decisions and accountability.
• Build & Scale Mindset:Experience standing up new functions and evolving them into scalable organizational capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in ticketing, sports technology, live entertainment, or comparable multi-segment B2B SaaS environments.

Pay Transparency:

The approximate national base pay range for this position is $172,000 to $215,000. Please note that this is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Individuals may also be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and/or sales compensation based on individual and company performance. Placement on the range may vary based on factors including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, and geographic location.The pay rate will comply with all minimum federal, state, and local wage/salary requirements.

Learfield offers a full spectrum of benefits for eligible employees including Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Life Insurance and Other Insurance Plans, Flexible Paid Time Off (minimum 10+ days annually), including Parental Leave, 20 Paid Holidays, 401(k) + Match, and Short/Long Term Disability. Leave benefits are consistent with state and local laws, including the Colorado Health Families and Workplaces Act.