Director – Tech Portfolio Governance
Gap Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Dallas • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
Tableau
About the role
- Lead governance processes across GTS portfolios, ensuring visibility of quarterly and annual commitments and outcomes across Customer, Product, and Enterprise functions.
- Establish standardized practices, tools, and templates to scale portfolio governance across GTS.
- Partner with TPMs to synthesize quarterly and annual plans into clear, high-level portfolio views for the Technology LT.
- Create consistent executive reporting that highlights: Work completed each quarter, Planned work for upcoming quarters, Financial tracking vs. portfolio budgets, and Value realized based on business case delivery.
- Oversee capacity governance across all portfolios, ensuring alignment of tech resources with strategic outcomes.
- Facilitate forums with tech and business leadership to make decisions on resource trade-offs, reallocation, and priority shifts.
- Maintain financial governance frameworks to monitor budgets, spend, and return on investment across the tech portfolio.
- Continuously evaluate and improve governance processes to ensure agility, predictability, and business impact.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in technology portfolio governance, program delivery, or consulting, with deep exposure to enterprise-scale governance frameworks.
- Proven ability to manage large-scale portfolio governance, including financial tracking, capacity planning, and value realization.
- Strong consulting background (strategy, operations, or portfolio/program management) preferred, with experience influencing executive decision-making.
- Skilled in executive reporting and portfolio dashboards, with the ability to create structured, high-impact updates for senior leadership using PowerPoint — balancing an abundance of data with the clarity of salient points.
- Exceptional ability to translate business cases into actionable governance insights and link technology investments to measurable outcomes.
- Strong collaboration skills — able to partner with TPMs, product leaders, finance, and engineering to align on plans and outcomes.
- Proficiency with portfolio management and reporting tools (e.g., Clarity, Aha!, Jira, Tableau, Power BI, or similar).
- Deep understanding of financial planning tools and ability to link budgets to business outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complexity and ambiguity, with a structured approach to problem-solving.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and executive presentation skills, capable of influencing at all leadership levels.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
technology portfolio governanceprogram deliveryfinancial trackingcapacity planningvalue realizationexecutive reportingportfolio dashboardsproblem-solvingbusiness case analysisagility in governance
Soft skills
collaborationinfluencingcommunicationfacilitationexecutive presentationstructured approachdecision-makingstrategic thinkingadaptabilityclarity in reporting