Senior Director – Portfolio Management
Salesforce
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California, New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $214,800 - $327,600 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Partner with executive leadership to translate corporate strategy into a balanced, actionable portfolio of initiatives.
- Lead annual and quarterly portfolio planning, prioritization, and rebalancing processes.
- Establish and lead enterprise-level portfolio governance to ensure investment decisions align with strategic priorities, risk tolerance, and ROI expectations.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on prioritization, investment strategy, and portfolio health.
- Maintain a forward-looking view of the portfolio to anticipate dependencies, resource constraints, and market impacts.
- Provide executive insights and recommendations to guide strategic trade-offs and capital allocation.
- Define and manage key portfolio performance indicators (e.g., value realization, time-to-market, resource utilization, risk exposure).
- Drive adoption of enterprise tools and analytics for portfolio visibility and scenario planning.
- Communicate portfolio performance and strategic impacts through concise executive dashboards and narratives.
- Innovate portfolio process at the team, organization, and enterprise level to align to modern standards.
- Be a champion for change amid ruthless prioritization.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team of portfolio managers and analysts by fostering a culture of accountability, transparency, and data-driven decision making.
- Build a collaborative teaming environment that champions creativity, innovation, and learning.
- Be willing to have a beginner's mind.
Requirements
- 10-15+ years of professional work experience in strategic planning, portfolio management, or enterprise PMO leadership roles within a large, complex, or global organization—preferably in high tech, SaaS, or digital industries.
- Proven success in leading enterprise portfolio governance, investment prioritization, and large-scale transformation initiatives.
- Strong financial acumen, with experience managing multimillion-dollar budgets and capital allocation and capital expenditure decisions.
- Expertise in agile portfolio management, capacity management, product lifecycle management, and/or strategy execution frameworks.
Benefits
- time off programs
- medical, dental, vision
- mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
portfolio managementstrategic planningenterprise PMO leadershipfinancial acumenagile portfolio managementcapacity managementproduct lifecycle managementstrategy execution frameworkscapital allocationcapital expenditure
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationaccountabilitytransparencydata-driven decision makingcreativityinnovationchange managementstrategic thinking