Portfolio Manager

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in program/project management, portfolio management, PMO operations, or strategic delivery, preferably within technology, banking, payments, or financial services.
• Proven experience managing large, complex initiatives across multiple product, engineering, business, analytics, finance, and external partner teams.
• Strong understanding of portfolio governance, planning, prioritization, dependency management, milestone management, release readiness, gating and Agile/SDLC delivery frameworks.
• Demonstrated hands-on proficiency with Tableau and/or Microsoft Power BI, including dashboard development, KPI visualization, scorecards, data storytelling, automation, and executive-ready reporting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze portfolio data, identify trends, bottlenecks, resource constraints, risks and trade-offs, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Working knowledge of AI-assisted productivity and analytical workflows, including use of approved AI capabilities for analysis, reporting, executive narratives, forecasting, and automation with appropriate verification and governance.
• Experience maintaining portfolio roadmaps, initiative backlogs, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, approvals and quality/readiness criteria.
• Experience coordinating releases and dependencies with external banking or technology partners.
• Strong data-quality orientation and ability to define meaningful metrics that improve portfolio visibility and decision-making.
• Excellent stakeholder management, leadership, written/verbal communication and executive presentation skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience or knowledge in Payments and Banking is preferred.

Schedule

• Duration: 6 months
• ONSITE

Location

• Phoenix,AZ