Senior Program Manager - Technology Strategy, Portfolio & Workforce Integration

The Senior Program Manager of Technology Strategy & Portfolio Integration offers a unique opportunity to step into a high impact position within an enterprise financial services organization navigating a significant technology evolution. In this role, you’ll work closely with senior leadership, including the CIO’s office, to help translate strategic vision into actionable priorities by connecting enterprise strategy to portfolio planning and workforce capacity. You’ll play a central role in shaping how work gets prioritized, funded, and delivered by bringing clarity and structure complex, competing initiatives while enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization. With a blend of strategic thinking, portfolio oversight, and capacity planning, you’ll help build more mature governance frameworks, improve transparency, and ensure the organization is focused on the highest-value work. If you thrive in environments where you can influence at the executive level, build frameworks from the ground up, and drive meaningful organizational change, this is a standout opportunity to make a lasting impact.

Worksite Location: Saint Paul, MN – Hybrid

Hourly Rate: $70-75 DOE

Benefits: Versique offers comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, accident/critical illness insurance, MN ESST, MN PFML, and a 401(k) with a company match.

Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Strategy Translation & Focus Definition with the Portfolio

• Partner with ET Strategy and CIO leadership to translate enterprise strategy into clear technology priorities and focus areas
• Support strategic planning cadences (annual planning, quarterly reviews, KPI tracking) integrating and aligning with existing enterprise processes and maturing ET’s partnership in those processes
• Help define how strategic priorities are operationalized within ET and partner with ECPMO on elevating ET’s priorities and their alignment and partnership with other divisions.
• Contribute to shaping and maturing the Office of the CIO (oCIO) function and planning model for future state definition and/or business case.

2. Portfolio Alignment & Prioritization

• Connect initiatives, roadmaps, and workstreams to defined strategic priorities
• Establish a single, transparent view of the ET portfolio
• Enable ET prioritization across competing initiatives based on value, urgency, and strategic alignment partnered closely with ECPMO
• Partner with ECPMO to differentiate and balance run / grow / transform work
• Partner with ECPMO to identify overlaps, redundancies, and sequencing dependencies

3. Capacity Planning & Tradeoff Enablement

• Enable ET resource managers to consistently adopt and regularly maintain capacity planning and forecasting routines and processes
• Work with ETSMG to define a %/# of hours that ET teams will set aside for ET-driven initiatives, and determine impact to market-facing commitments
• Work with ET leaders and ECPMO to develop integrated views of portfolio demand vs. workforce capacity (by skill, role, timing)
• Identify capacity constraints, skill gaps, and overcommitment risks
• Model scenarios to evaluate tradeoffs between priorities, capacity, and investment and align with ET leadership/finance areas to make explicit tradeoff decisions
• Partner with HR/TA to define plans to address gaps (hiring, redeployment, sourcing)

4. Governance and Decision Enablement

• Support and enhance planning and governance forums (strategy, portfolio, capacity)
• Provide leadership with clear, decision-ready insights and clear accountability
• Improve transparency across teams, shared services, and dependencies
• Begin establishing stronger mechanisms to track delivery and strategic outcomes/value including identifying bottlenecks impacting execution or value realization

Required Skills & Experience:

• 8 years in program management, portfolio management, or strategy execution within Technology with preference for those working in or alongside senior leadership teams
• Demonstrated experience connecting strategy, portfolio, execution, capacity planning
• Experience operating in complex, matrixed enterprise environments
• Focused on value delivery and decision enablement, not reporting
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive prioritization decisions
• Strategic integrator and relationship builder who connects priorities to execution realities
• Strong understanding of technology delivery models (Agile/product-based)
• ServiceNow

About Versique

Versique: /ver-seek/ adj. being both versatile and unique; n. a high-performance recruiting firm specializing in executive leadership search, direct hire, and interim hiring solutions.

Versique Executive, Professional, & Interim Recruiting is a locally owned and operated hiring and placement firm based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. With specialized practice areas across our three divisions, Versique delivers tailored expertise to a wide range of industries. What sets us apart is our team of recruiters—seasoned professionals who have worked in the very fields they now hire for, providing unmatched industry insight and connections.

We believe people are more than resumes—they are transformative, unlocking the potential for organizational growth and success.

Versique is proud to be an award-winning company, earning recognition on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies and the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal's Fast 50 list for 2023. We are also consistently recognized as a Star Tribune Top Workplace and were named a Best Place to Work in 2022 by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

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Versique is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.