Director, PMO

Comcast•Reston, VA

About The Position

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers, powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology. The company operates globally with offices in nine countries. The Director of the Program Management Office (PMO) is responsible for driving enterprise-level, technical programs that enable organizational change and deliver measurable business outcomes. This role encompasses program governance, planning, execution discipline, and change adoption for complex initiatives across infrastructure, cloud, security, platforms, and compliance. The PMO functions as a change-driving entity, ensuring programs lead to durable adoption and impact.

Requirements

Applied understanding required to lead complex, technical, enterprise programs.
Enterprise-scale technical program and portfolio management across infrastructure, platforms, security, and cloud environments.
Experience operating within production, uptime-sensitive, or highly regulated technical environments.
Core concepts of modern infrastructure, cloud computing, identity, security, networking, and system integration.
Technical delivery lifecycles, architecture dependencies, and operational risk within large engineering organizations.
Governance, compliance, audit, and regulatory requirements impacting technical systems and platforms.
Financial and vendor management as it relates to infrastructure, tooling, and technology investment.
Demonstrated capabilities to lead technical change and influence delivery at scale.
Experience leading large-scale technical change initiatives through planning, execution, and adoption.
Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to executive and non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to drive accountability and delivery discipline across highly technical, cross-functional teams.
Ability to influence prioritization and sequencing of technical work based on risk, capacity, and impact.
Experience coaching and developing PMO leaders to operate effectively in deeply technical program environments.
Ability to lead enterprise-level technical programs from strategy through execution and operational adoption.
Ability to anticipate and mitigate technical, architectural, and dependency risks across complex initiatives.
Ability to drive organizational change while maintaining delivery stability in production environments.
Ability to establish governance and execution models that support secure, reliable, and scalable systems.
Ability to build and sustain a PMO organization capable of driving complex technical transformation over time.
Bachelor's Degree (or combination of coursework and extensive related professional experience).
10+ Years Relevant Work Experience.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop PMO managers and senior program leaders, establishing clear performance expectations and fostering a culture of ownership and disciplined execution.
Drive organizational change by ensuring enterprise programs result in durable adoption and measurable impact, not just delivery.
Lead execution of enterprise-scale, cross-functional technical programs spanning infrastructure, cloud, security, platforms, and compliance.
Design programs to intentionally move the organization forward, including changes to behavior, process, and operating models.
Actively intervene and course-correct when programs stall, face resistance, or fail to drive intended change.
Establish and direct enterprise-level planning and prioritization mechanisms for PMO-led technical initiatives.
Partner with Engineering, Product, Finance, Security, and Business leaders to align program sequencing with strategy, capacity, and risk, enabling leadership decision-making.
Ensure programs are realistically scoped, funded, and resourced to achieve outcomes.
Define and operate PMO governance structures, leading executive program forums, steering committees, and escalation paths.
Surface delivery, technical, financial, and adoption risks early with clear mitigation options, ensuring leadership confidence in program reporting.
Set and enforce expectations for disciplined program execution, including clear ownership, milestones, and success criteria.
Ensure PMO leaders operate with sufficient technical understanding to manage infrastructure-heavy, security-sensitive initiatives.
Drive consistent standards for how technical programs are planned, staffed, and managed, balancing rigor with adaptability.
Own the evolution of PMO frameworks, playbooks, and standards to support technical program delivery at scale.
Drive continuous improvement of PMO practices based on outcomes, lessons learned, and organizational needs, ensuring measurable improvements in execution and change maturity.
Champion adoption of tools and practices that improve transparency, efficiency, and execution maturity.
Provide decisive leadership and centralized oversight across complex initiatives spanning technology, operations, finance, security, and commercial teams.
Sponsor and lead transformation initiatives that improve execution discipline, governance, and operational maturity.
Ensure change management, communication, and stakeholder readiness are embedded into all major programs.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior and executive leadership on program status, tradeoffs, and risks, influencing decisions proactively.
Strengthen alignment and shared ownership across Engineering, Product, Operations, Security, and Finance.
Represent PMO priorities and delivery health in executive and steering forums.
Develop talent pipelines and succession plans to sustain a high-impact PMO organization.