Director, Enterprise Portfolio Management

ExtensisHR • Woodbridge Township, NJ

1d • $160,000 - $200,000

About The Position

ExtensisHR is seeking a Director of Enterprise Portfolio to oversee how the company selects, funds, delivers, and adopts its most important initiatives, while personally leading some of the highest-priority or highest-risk programs. The role reports to the CIO and partners with executives and department leaders to set priorities. It is a hands-on leadership position, with approximately half of the time devoted to direct project and program leadership and the other half to portfolio strategy, governance, and improving delivery maturity across the company.

The Director directly leads one to three major initiatives at a time, from scoping through delivery and adoption, owning plans, budgets, stakeholder alignment, risk management, and outcomes. The portfolio leadership component includes operating a unified intake and prioritization process, maintaining an enterprise roadmap aligned with company goals, designing risk-appropriate governance, reporting portfolio health, coaching project leads, managing a small team, and modernizing PMO tools through automation, dashboards, and AI-assisted workflows.

The role also partners on technology and AI governance, including intake, vendor evaluation, integration considerations, and risk review. The Director works with Legal, Compliance, Security, and IT to address data privacy and regulatory requirements early. Effective and ethical use of AI tools, awareness of relevant emerging applications, and continued development of AI proficiency are expected.

Success includes delivering initiatives with measurable business outcomes, providing leadership with a trusted view of portfolio priorities and tradeoffs, reducing reporting overhead while improving decisions, establishing a clear governance path for technology and AI requests, meeting adoption targets, and improving delivery consistency across project leads. The posted salary range is $160,000–$200,000.

Requirements

• 10 or more years of experience in program, project, or transformation leadership, with recent and ongoing hands-on delivery experience.
• A track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives to measurable outcomes.
• Experience influencing executives and peers without direct authority.
• Ability to manage up, make recommendations, push back respectfully, and escalate early.
• Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, capacity planning, and business case review.
• Fluency in agile, waterfall, and hybrid delivery approaches.
• Comfort with data and tooling, including portfolio management platforms, dashboards, and automation.
• Excellent executive communication and facilitation skills.
• Ability to switch between detailed project execution and enterprise-level thinking.
• Ability to use AI tools ethically and effectively and maintain relevant AI proficiency.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a PEO, HR services, payroll, benefits, or another regulated, multi-state service environment.
• Experience with AI or automation governance, vendor evaluation, or enterprise integration programs.
• Prior experience building or modernizing a PMO or portfolio function.
• Change management experience, through a formal credential or demonstrated practice.
• PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or similar certification.

Responsibilities

• Personally lead one to three high-priority or high-risk initiatives from scoping through delivery and adoption.
• Own project and program plans, budgets, stakeholder alignment, risk management, and outcomes.
• Deliver priority initiatives against scope, schedule, and budget while achieving measurable business outcomes.
• Build change management and enablement into projects to support adoption.
• Model effective delivery practices for the organization.
• Run a single intake and prioritization process that balances demand with capacity, funding, and risk.
• Maintain an enterprise roadmap tied to company goals and recommend work to retire, pause, or re-scope.
• Design tiered governance that matches the rigor applied to an initiative with its size and risk.
• Report portfolio health to leadership, including value delivered, forecast accuracy, and time to decision.
• Coach and support project leads and improve delivery maturity across the company.
• Manage a small team and modernize PMO tooling using automation, live dashboards, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Present executives with clear options and tradeoffs when demand exceeds capacity.
• Bring prioritization recommendations to the executive team and secure decisions on funding, capacity, and sequencing in partnership with the specified counterpart.
• Escalate cross-functional conflicts and resourcing tradeoffs with clear options and drive them to resolution.
• Support agile, waterfall, and hybrid teams without imposing a single method.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and escalations across the portfolio.
• Participate in technology and AI governance, including intake, vendor evaluation, integration considerations, and risk review of automation and AI requests.
• Work with Legal, Compliance, Security, and IT to address data privacy and regulatory requirements early.
• Use AI tools ethically and effectively, maintain awareness of relevant emerging AI applications, and continue developing AI proficiency.
• Partner with the CIO, with clear ownership of decisions and escalations.

Benefits

• Progressive paid-time-off program, including time off for volunteering and life events.
• Group medical, dental, vision, and life insurance available from day one.
• Student Loan Assistance Program contributions toward student loans.
• Pretax spending accounts for health and dependent care expenses.
• Professional development programs.
• Retail and entertainment discounts.
• Social and community outreach committee, with in-office events and networking opportunities.
• Complimentary coffee and snacks.
• Competitive compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed