Geico

Staff Tech Portfolio Manager

Geico • $115K — $230K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in enterprise technology or program management with cross-functional initiative ownership.
  • Deep understanding of enterprise platform capabilities like cloud infrastructure and APIs.
  • Proficient in collaborating with architecture and engineering leaders while focusing on outcomes.
  • History of delivering impactful programs in complex and uncertain environments.
  • Strong influencing and communication skills across technical and business teams.
  • Experience with agile and lean methodologies for enterprise-scale projects.
  • Skilled in creating executive-level reports and roadmaps using data visualization tools.

Responsibilities

  • Lead planning and delivery for PaaS platform initiatives, ensuring organizational alignment.
  • Define and manage platform roadmaps, risks, and executive status updates.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure platforms meet scalability and compliance needs.
  • Track and report on platform KPIs, including developer experience and operational health.
  • Drive agile delivery excellence with proper documentation and readiness plans.
  • Advise senior leaders on technical priorities and their business implications.
  • Promote best practices and change readiness across platform users.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies to enhance delivery speed and developer experience.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Opportunity to influence enterprise technology strategy and impact business outcomes.
  • Access to leadership engagement and mentoring.
  • Potential for professional growth in an evolving tech landscape.
  • Flexible work models that promote work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Staff Tech Portfolio Manager, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

About the Role

We are seeking a strategic and execution-focused Staff Tech Portfolio Manager to lead enterprise Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) programs that improve developer productivity, platform reliability, operational readiness, and business delivery. This role partners across Engineering, Architecture, Product, Security, Risk, Finance, Operations, and application teams to translate platform strategy into actionable roadmaps, measurable outcomes, and scalable execution.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead cross-functional planning, prioritization, sequencing, and delivery for high-impact PaaS platform programs, ensuring alignment across platform services, consuming application teams, and enterprise priorities.
  • Define and manage platform roadmaps, dependencies, risks, milestones, adoption plans, governance checkpoints, and executive-level status reporting.
  • Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Risk, Operations, and Finance to ensure platform investments support scalability, reuse, compliance, resiliency, cost efficiency, and measurable business value.
  • Establish and track platform KPIs, including adoption, reliability, developer experience, time-to-market, operational health, supportability, and cost efficiency.
  • Drive delivery excellence through agile, iterative, and outcome-oriented practices, ensuring programs are supported by clear documentation, adoption playbooks, readiness plans, and post-launch learning.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders by translating technical priorities, delivery tradeoffs, platform risks, and investment decisions into clear business outcomes.
  • Promote consistent platform consumption, standards, best practices, and change readiness across application teams and internal platform stakeholders.
  • Evaluate emerging platform technologies, automation capabilities, developer tools, and operational practices that improve delivery speed, reliability, and developer experience.

Qualifications
  • 10+ years of experience leading enterprise technology, program management, or platform portfolios with ownership of complex, cross-functional initiatives.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise platform capabilities, including developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, shared services, APIs, container platforms, integration services, and core enterprise systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner with architecture and engineering leaders while maintaining a customer-, business-, and outcome-oriented perspective.
  • Proven track record delivering high-impact programs in ambiguous environments while managing dependencies, risks, stakeholders, and measurable outcomes.
  • Strong influence and communication skills, with the ability to align technical, business, security, compliance, and operations stakeholders.
  • Experience with agile, lean, and iterative delivery models applied to platform or enterprise-scale initiatives.
  • Ability to build and present executive-ready roadmaps, dashboards, adoption plans, and impact stories using tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Jira, Aha!, or similar platforms.

Preferred Experience & Certifications
  • Experience with PaaS capabilities such as container platforms, messaging, workflow orchestration, API management, file exchange, databases, caching, identity, certificate management, monitoring, and infrastructure automation.
  • General Familiarity with Infrastructure and Platform services and their purpose like Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD platforms, observability tooling, and enterprise service management practices.
  • Preferred certifications include SAFe, PMP, PMI-PgMP, Certified Scrum Professional, cloud platform certifications, or relevant product/program management credentials.


Annual Salary
$115,000.00 - $230,000.00
The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate's work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

About Geico

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is an American auto insurance company with headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It is the second largest auto insurer in the United States, after State Farm. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that provides coverage for more than 24 million motor vehicles owned by more than 15 million policy holders as of 2017. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The insurance agency sells policies through local agents, called GEICO Field Representatives, and over the phone directly to the consumer, and through their website.
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40,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1936

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