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Toptal

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

🤝 B2B

🎯 Recruiter

🏪 Marketplace

💰 Seed Round on 2012-06

B2B • Recruitment • Marketplace

Toptal is an exclusive network of the top freelance software developers, designers, marketing experts, finance experts, product managers, and project managers in the world. The company provides businesses with access to highly skilled professionals to tackle their most important projects. Toptal's offerings allow companies to quickly and flexibly hire top talent for various roles, including developers, designers, and finance experts, among others. These professionals are rigorously tested and vetted to ensure high quality and an excellent trial-to-hire success rate of 98%. With a global presence and a focus on embracing advanced skills such as blockchain and AI, Toptal is leading the future of on-demand work. Companies rely on Toptal for high-skilled freelance talent across various sectors, ensuring they can build amazing teams rapidly and efficiently as per their project needs.

📋 Description

• The Project Management Office (PMO) Portfolio Lead ensures execution quality and acts as the ultimate owner of delivery assurance for our projects. • Serving as the first point of escalation, you will focus deeply on project health, ensuring all projects are delivered on time and on budget with a strict “no surprises” philosophy. • You will work closely with Project Managers on the ground while feeding critical project intelligence up to Delivery Managers and the Account team. • Ensure delivery readiness of new projects (sales handoff, talent fulfillment and onboarding, setup baseline governance). • Act as the primary owner for identifying, assessing, and managing project-level risks across your assigned portfolio. • Evaluate delivery health weekly and ensure consistent reporting cadence (client-facing and internal). • Identify cost, schedule, and value realization risks, support mitigation planning, and rigorously track and update Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies (RAID) logs. • Own project financials including revenue, margin, and forecasting. • Serve as the immediate escalation point for complex project roadblocks, intervening before they impact the broader client relationship, while exercising discretion and independent judgment. • Design and implement early mitigation strategies for identified risk flags. • Provide clear, data-driven escalations and status updates to Delivery Managers and the Account team to ensure alignment on project realities.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is required. Preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline; or equivalent experience. • Minimum of five (5) years’ experience managing multi-project portfolios. • PMP certification. • Experience coordinating across client and internal stakeholder groups. • Excellent understanding of project management, including methodologies and best practices. • Ability to connect portfolio financials, project execution, and business value realization into clear management reporting. • Strong attention to detail and ability to synthesize portfolio-level insights from multiple data sources. • Strong facilitation and virtual collaboration skills. • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. • Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts.

🏖️ Benefits

• Participation in a 401(k) retirement plan • Medical, dental, and vision health insurance plans • Basic life insurance coverage • Short-term and long-term disability coverage • Access to flexible spending, dependent care, and health savings accounts • Access to telehealth virtual doctors • Employee assistance program • Flexible paid time off