Principal Portfolio Manager

About the role

This role leads end-to-end portfolio management for a broad product portfolio, ensuring alignment with business objectives, delivery transparency, and value realization. The Principal Portfolio Manager drives cross-functional governance processes, partners with senior leaders to escalate risks and inform prioritization decisions, and produces data-driven reporting and portfolio visualizations that support strategic planning. Success is defined by portfolio health, stakeholder alignment, and measurable delivery outcomes across business and technical teams.

Ideal candidate locations: Bellevue, WA or Overland Park, KS.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product portfolio management, ensuring alignment with business objectives and delivery of measurable value.
• Translate complex delivery, financial, and risks into clear, compelling presentations tailored for executive audiences; hold discussions independently with the senior leadership team.
• Lead portfolio governance processes including intake, prioritization, resource allocation, funding decisions, and business case evaluation.
• Partner with program and project managers to track delivery status, surface resource and schedule risks, and drive escalation paths.
• Facilitate regular portfolio reviews with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to support decision-making and communicate delivery health.
• Build and maintain portfolio reporting, dashboards, and visualizations (using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Planview, or Smartsheet) to communicate key insights and portfolio performance.
• Drive alignment across business and technical teams in a matrixed environment by maintaining clear communication cadences and documentation standards.
• Perform other duties/projects as assigned by business management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and 7 years of related work experience, OR a combination of education and experience deemed equivalent. Acceptable areas of study: Business, Marketing, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7–10 years of experience managing portfolios, assessing performance, and delivering against financial and resource constraints.
• 7–10 years of experience managing cross-functional programs and projects with senior stakeholder engagement in a matrixed environment.
• 7–10 years of experience in the full project/program lifecycle, including intake, planning, execution, and reporting.
• Experience leading or mentoring project teams across multiple business and technical disciplines.

Skills

• Portfolio Management — including intake governance, prioritization frameworks, and performance tracking.
• Project/Program Management — cross-functional, multi-stakeholder, senior executive visibility.
• Budget Management — OPEX/CAPEX tracking, resource forecasting, financial constraint management.
• Strategic Planning — OKRs, roadmap alignment, portfolio-level prioritization.
• Executive Communication — ability to synthesize portfolio status and risks for VP and above.
• Data Analysis and Reporting — portfolio dashboards, visualizations, and KPI tracking.
• Collaboration / Stakeholder Management — matrixed environment, cross-functional teams.
• Agile and/or Waterfall Delivery Methodologies.
• Familiarity with PPM tools such as Planview, Smartsheet, Jira, or ServiceNow.
• Design Thinking.

Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP).
• SAFe Agilist, PgMP, or equivalent portfolio/program certification.
• At least 18 years of age.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Travel is required for this role.

Pay

Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity: $156,480 - $282,240. This represents the expected total cash compensation for this role at target performance, combining base salary and annual incentive opportunity. Actual earnings may be higher or lower depending on individual performance and overall company results.

National Base Pay Range: $130,400 - $235,200. The base pay range reflects the compensation component of this opportunity. The candidate’s actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience.

Benefits

Full and part-time employees have access to the same benefits when eligible, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible spending account.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Annual stock grant and employee stock purchase plan.
• Paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays (about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually).
• Paid parental and family leave.
• Family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, and childcare subsidy.
• Tuition assistance and college coaching.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Voluntary AD&D, accident, life, disability, and long-term care insurance.
• Mobile service and home internet discounts.
• Pet insurance.
• Commuter and transit programs.
• Free, year-round money coaches.