Full-Time Portfolio Director
Job Description
The Kessel Run Enterprise Services Portfolio Director is the primary blocker-remover for KRES teams under that portfolio. The Director is responsible for advocating for teams and resolving needs to shorten delivery cycles. They also ensure team health and deliver user value as fast as possible. As a Director, you will be responsible for a portfolio of 3–5 product/project teams. In addition to helping teams clear their path to production by engaging other groups within Kessel Run (e.g., platform, security), you will also work with and manage external stakeholders. You will provide your teams with the resources they need and make mentoring and professional development a normal activity. Director’s are crucial to evolving and cultivating Kessel Run culture.
What you will do
- People: You will ensure team health by solving staffing concerns, allocated resources appropriately and finding growth opportunities for your teams
- Product: You will ensure productivity by ensuring that product teams are meeting OKRs, tracking and improving product value metrics and tracking and improving software delivery performance metrics
- Portfolio: You will tackle cross-cutting concerns and find efficiencies across teams within your portfolio. You will negotiate multi-team decisions by ensuring that the teams are delivering portfolio-wide value in accordance with OKRs
- Practice: You will work with Practice Leads to ensure that Kessel Run is constantly growing and evolving our practice and assessing our progress
Who you are
- You have experience with both lean startup and agile software development
- You are a cultural change agent. You believe that culture is the most important tenet to achieving product success
- You have experience shipping new products as well as improving existing ones
- You have experience in a user-focused environment
- You have proven experience in managing customer feedback and improve upon existing processes
- You have top-quality written and verbal communication skills (e.g., capable of public speaking, changing your messaging based on the audience, etc.)
- You are comfortable providing advice, recommendations, and guidance with incomplete information
- You have strong leadership and management skills with a diverse workforce
- You have the ability to prioritize and manage expectations of competing and sometimes conflicting needs
- You have experience managing automated product deployments to cloud and on-prem environments
- You have excellent interpersonal skills and able to incorporate multiple perspectives
- You are a U.S. Citizen and have the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance.
How to Apply
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