Principal Portfolio Manager 1

U.S. Bank • Brookfield, WI

7d • $149,515 - $175,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
The Director, Enterprise Program Management leads the planning, governance, coordination, and execution of strategic technology initiatives spanning multiple portfolios, product teams, and global delivery organizations. This role serves as a central orchestrator for enterprise programs, ensuring alignment to technology priorities, successful delivery of committed outcomes, and adherence to established governance, intake, prioritization, business case, and reporting processes. Partnering closely with executive leadership, business stakeholders, and cross-functional technology teams, the Director drives visibility, accountability, risk management, and execution excellence across large-scale initiatives including resilience, regulatory compliance, modernization, AI adoption, and other strategic transformation efforts, enabling consistent delivery of business value across a global technology organization.

Requirements

• Typically requires Bachelor’s degree with 10 years or more years of relevant experience
• 10+ years of Program Management experience in large-scale technology organizations.
• Proven success managing complex programs spanning multiple organizations and executive stakeholders.
• Experience supporting organizations of 1,000+ technology professionals.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile delivery, and product operating models.
• Demonstrated success influencing senior executives without direct authority.
• Experience leading a distributed team.
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.
• Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic, cross-portfolio technology initiatives that drive enterprise priorities and business outcomes.
• Provide leadership and governance for complex programs spanning multiple portfolios, product teams, and global delivery organizations.
• Align business, product, engineering, architecture, compliance, and operations stakeholders to deliver strategic objectives.
• Establish and oversee integrated execution plans, including priorities, dependencies, risks, milestones, and outcome measurement.
• Drive delivery excellence, accountability, and decision-making across organizational boundaries.
• Provide executive-level reporting, insights, and recommendations to CIOs and senior leadership.
• Anticipate and mitigate enterprise risks, resolving issues and removing obstacles to successful delivery.
• Lead adoption of standardized program management practices, governance frameworks, and performance metrics.
• Foster collaboration across geographically distributed teams to ensure consistent execution and operational effectiveness.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives that enhance delivery velocity, organizational effectiveness, and business value realization.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal