AI Portfolio / PMO Lead

About the role

The AI Portfolio Lead is a senior individual contributor responsible for driving operational excellence, portfolio governance, and execution cadence across a divisional AI portfolio. The role owns the management rhythms that keep AI initiatives aligned, transparent, and moving from demand intake through adoption and value realization, including portfolio dashboards, governance forums, decision logs, action tracking, duplicate-project reviews, risk and dependency tracking, and leadership-ready reporting.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain the divisional AI portfolio operating cadence, including intake reviews, governance forums, leadership reviews, planning cycles, and performance review rhythms.
• Manage the divisional AI backlog, including demand intake, prioritization support, cohort planning, readiness tracking, and alignment to business priorities.
• Own risk, issue, action, decision, and dependency tracking, including decision logs, action registers, milestone visibility, and follow-through routines so commitments and escalations are visible and addressed.
• Lead duplicate-project reviews and portfolio rationalization efforts to identify overlap, improve resource utilization, and align AI investments to the highest-value opportunities.
• Develop and maintain executive dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, and portfolio analytics that provide clear visibility into initiative health, performance, risks, decisions, and outcomes.
• Prepare leadership-ready portfolio materials that synthesize complex information into concise insights, decision points, and recommended actions.
• Drive reporting consistency, data quality, and governance standards across the divisional AI portfolio.
• Maintain project hygiene and portfolio transparency across intake, prioritization, delivery, adoption, and value-realization stages.
• Own business-specific adoption planning, including impacted roles, stakeholder engagement, enablement needs, communications, and reinforcement approach.
• Coordinate training reinforcement, leadership talking points, adoption communications, and feedback loops after launch.
• Identify adoption risks, resistance patterns, readiness gaps, and operational blockers; recommend practical actions to improve uptake and sustainability.
• Facilitate alignment across business, product, technology, finance, delivery, and operational teams to resolve conflicts and optimize portfolio outcomes.
• Partner with business finance and controllership stakeholders to validate baselines, benefit formulas, assumptions, and realized impact.
• Support KPI design, including direct and indirect benefit definitions, operational metrics, expected value, and value tracking cadence.
• Track expected versus realized value and surface variance drivers when benefits are unclear, delayed, or at risk.
• Connect portfolio prioritization and rationalization decisions to business value, resource utilization, and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure AI Hub intake submissions are complete, clear, and ready for governance review.
• Support risk-tier pre-checks, documentation quality, human oversight planning, controls alignment, and reassessment trigger tracking.
• Help business stakeholders understand responsible AI governance requirements and complete them efficiently without slowing responsible innovation.
• Continuously improve portfolio management processes, tools, reporting frameworks, and governance practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, with 6+ years of experience in PMO, program management, portfolio governance, business operations, or transformation.
• Strong background in stakeholder management, prioritization, issue tracking, dependency management, action tracking, decision logs, and leadership-ready reporting.
• Proven ability to create executive dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, portfolio analytics, and data-driven insights that support strategic decision making.
• Experience preparing senior-leadership materials and synthesizing complex portfolio information into concise, actionable recommendations.
• Experience supporting change management, adoption planning, communications, training reinforcement, or role-based enablement.
• Working knowledge of benefit tracking, KPI design, baseline validation, assumptions, realized impact, and controllership review.
• Exposure to Digital, AI, technology, enterprise transformation, governance, risk, compliance, documentation, controls, or responsible AI operating processes.
• Ability to work independently in ambiguity, create structure, influence cross-functional teams, and drive follow-through without direct authority.
• Critical Skills: Program governance, PMO discipline, operating cadence design, prioritization, and portfolio management hygiene.
• Executive reporting, portfolio analytics, dashboard design, KPI design, scorecards, and data quality management.
• Risk, issue, action, decision, and dependency tracking, escalation management, and follow-through discipline.
• Stakeholder management, executive communication, concise storytelling, and cross-functional alignment.
• Change management, communication planning, training reinforcement, role-based enablement, and behavioral adoption.
• Finance partnership, benefit formulas, baseline validation, direct and indirect value tracking, and realized impact measurement.
• Governance operations, documentation quality, risk awareness, intake readiness, human oversight planning, and reassessment triggers.
• Portfolio and reporting tool proficiency, such as Power BI, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, Microsoft Power Platform, or similar tools.

Qualifications

• Ability to work from an office in Novi, MI, 3+ days per week (hybrid).
• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment.

Skills

• Program governance, PMO discipline, operating cadence design, prioritization, and portfolio management hygiene.
• Executive reporting, portfolio analytics, dashboard design, KPI design, scorecards, and data quality management.
• Risk, issue, action, decision, and dependency tracking, escalation management, and follow-through discipline.
• Stakeholder management, executive communication, concise storytelling, and cross-functional alignment.
• Change management, communication planning, training reinforcement, role-based enablement, and behavioral adoption.
• Finance partnership, benefit formulas, baseline validation, direct and indirect value tracking, and realized impact measurement.
• Governance operations, documentation quality, risk awareness, intake readiness, human oversight planning, and reassessment triggers.
• Portfolio and reporting tool proficiency, such as Power BI, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, Microsoft Power Platform, or similar tools.

Benefits

• Access to employee discounts on world-class products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, and more)
• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University
• Competitive wellness benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• "Be Brilliant" employee recognition and rewards program
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development
• Pay Transparency: $ 108,750 - $ 159,500 Dependent on the position offered, other forms of compensation are also available, such as bonuses or commission.
• Pay is based on a wide range of factors, including, without limitation, skill set, experience, training, location, and business need.
• While the above range is a reasonable estimate of the wage range for this position, please note the disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographical differential associated with the location where the position may be filled.
• Benefits and perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with HARMAN, and may include paid vacation and holidays, paid sick leave, volunteer leave, and paid bonding and care giver leave.
• Employees may also be eligible to participate in comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, fertility support and adoption assistance, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan with employer match, short and long term disability coverage, life insurance, and more.
• You Belong Here: HARMAN is committed to making every employee feel welcomed, valued, and empowered. No matter what role you play, we encourage you to share your ideas, voice your distinct perspective, and bring your whole self with you – all within a support-minded culture that celebrates what makes each of us unique. We also recognize that learning is a lifelong pursuit and want you to flourish. We proudly offer added opportunities for training, development, and continuing education, further empowering you to live the career you want.

About HARMAN

HARMAN is a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Automotive, we give you the keys to fast-track your career. Engineer audio systems and integrated technology platforms that augment the driving experience Combine ingenuity, in-depth research, and a spirit of collaboration with design and engineering excellence Advance in-vehicle infotainment, safety, efficiency, and enjoyment.