Director, IT Project Management

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $210k - $320k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Shield AI

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🚀 Aerospace

🎖️ Defense

Artificial Intelligence • Aerospace • Defense

Shield AI is a leading developer of AI-driven military solutions, focusing on enhancing mission autonomy and battlefield awareness. Their platform, Hivemind, enables rapid deployment of intelligent systems for various defense applications, including drone operation and surveillance. With a commitment to utilizing advanced technology, Shield AI aims to protect service members and civilians by revolutionizing defense technologies through autonomous systems.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute the strategic vision, operating model, and multi-year maturity roadmap for the enterprise IT PMO • Establish portfolio governance, intake, prioritization, funding, resource planning, stage-gate reviews, and escalation processes • Lead strategic enterprise programs spanning business applications, ERP, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud platforms, data and analytics, AI enablement, enterprise integrations, and end-user technology • Partner with IT and business leadership to translate corporate priorities into a sequenced technology roadmap • Define and enforce program and project management methodologies, delivery standards, templates, controls, and performance metrics • Build and lead a team of program managers, project managers, portfolio analysts, and business operations personnel • Oversee complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives, managing scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, risks, security requirements, and business outcomes • Establish executive-level portfolio reporting covering project health, milestones, financial performance, dependencies, resource capacity, delivery risks, and decisions • Maintain an integrated technology portfolio roadmap across business functions, technology domains, vendors, and transformation programs • Drive demand management and business-case development • Partner with Finance and IT leadership on investment planning, budget tracking, forecasts, capitalization, vendor spend, and cost optimization • Implement benefits-realization practices • Lead risk management, issue resolution, executive escalation, and recovery planning • Establish resource-management practices for allocation, capacity planning, prioritization, utilization visibility, and delivery predictability • Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Business Systems, Data, Finance, Legal, People, and business unit leadership • Govern systems integrators, implementation partners, consultants, and strategic technology vendors • Advance Agile, hybrid, and product-oriented delivery practices • Drive continuous improvement through portfolio analytics, post-implementation reviews, lessons learned, delivery-health assessments, and PMO maturity measurements • Ensure programs address security, privacy, compliance, audit, data-governance, and change-management requirements • Provide leadership during critical incidents, enterprise transformations, and executive escalations • Lead the IT PMO strategy, governance, delivery discipline, and portfolio management for enterprise technology initiatives at Shield AI, a defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, autonomy software, aircraft, and simulation technologies

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in technology program management, project management, portfolio management, business transformation, or related enterprise IT leadership roles • 5+ years of leadership experience managing PMO, program management, project management, portfolio-management, or enterprise-transformation teams • Experience building or maturing an enterprise IT PMO in a complex, rapidly evolving, or high-growth organization • Experience leading large-scale, multi-year technology transformation programs with significant business impact, cross-functional dependencies, and executive visibility • Experience governing portfolios including enterprise applications, ERP, cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data platforms, integrations, and end-user technologies • Understanding of portfolio governance, demand management, investment prioritization, business-case development, resource planning, financial management, and benefits realization • Experience managing program budgets, forecasts, vendor spend, statements of work, implementation partners, and financial controls • Ability to develop executive communications, portfolio dashboards, program status reports, investment recommendations, risk summaries, and decision materials • Ability to identify delivery risks, clarify accountability, resolve cross-functional issues, and drive timely decisions • Experience with Agile, Waterfall, hybrid delivery models, and ITIL-aligned service-management principles • Experience with Planview, Jira, Smartsheet, Asana, Microsoft Project, or equivalent portfolio-management platforms • Exceptional communication, influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills • Strong analytical and financial acumen • Ability to participate in critical program governance, escalation management, and incident leadership • Preferred: 15+ years of progressive experience, including 7+ years managing multi-functional delivery organizations • Preferred: Experience in defense technology, aerospace, manufacturing, regulated, security-sensitive, or high-compliance environments • Preferred: Experience with Oracle Fusion, Workday, Salesforce Agentforce, or similar enterprise application and ERP transformation programs • Preferred: Experience with cloud modernization, cybersecurity transformation, identity, zero-trust, data platforms, AI, or enterprise automation initiatives • Preferred: PMP, PgMP, PfMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Lean, Six Sigma, ITIL, or comparable certifications • Preferred: Experience with strategic portfolio-management platforms and enterprise reporting capabilities • Preferred: Organizational change management, operating-model design, process transformation, and adoption planning experience • Preferred: Experience establishing outcome-based delivery metrics • Preferred: Experience applying automation, AI-enabled portfolio analytics, or data-driven reporting

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus • Benefits • Equity • Temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment (for temporary employees) • Full-time regular employee offer package • Temporary employees are eligible for a temporary benefits package • Equal employment opportunity and accommodation support