Director of Portfolio & Program Management

TENEX.AI - Sarasota, FL

Hiring: Director of Portfolio & Program Management Company: TENEX.AI Location: Sarasota, FL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 14:41:15 Target Skills & Keywords : Portfolio Management, Program Management, Project Management, SAFe, SOC, SaaS, Stakeholder Management About the job Experience: •5+ years direct experience Required Skills: •Customer Onboarding Project Management (Rapid Deployment Team / RDT) •Lead the project management of onboarding for net-new Tenex customers. You'll ensure new customers are stood up smoothly and quickly against our milestone-gated delivery framework — coordinating across engineering, detection, SOC, and CS to compress time-to-value and create a consistent, repeatable onboarding experience. •Professional Services Project Management (PSF) •Program & Portfolio Management (Internal Strategic Initiatives) •Strategically drive programmatic and portfolio-level rigor for Tenex's own strategic initiatives. You'll bring structure to cross-functional programs and key projects run inside the walls of Tenex — establishing prioritization, dependency management, executive reporting, and the delivery cadence that keeps our most important bets on track. •Build, hire, and lead a team of project and program managers across the three functions above. •Define and operationalize best practices, standards, tooling, and templates for project, program, and portfolio management across the business. •Establish clear intake, prioritization, staffing, and delivery processes so work is sequenced against capacity and strategic priority. Qualifications: •Deep, hands-on experience in project, program, and portfolio management — you've operated at all three altitudes. •Demonstrated ability to define and scale operational best practices and delivery frameworks in a growing organization. •Strong track record of delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives on time and to outcome. •Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills. •Highly execution-oriented: a self-starter and self-motivated go-getter who also takes direction well and operates effectively within a leadership team. •Operational familiarity with cybersecurity, MDR, or SOC operations (or the ability to ramp quickly in a technical delivery context). •Relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, PgMP, PfMP, SAFe, or equivalent). •A builder who's energized by ambiguity and creating structure where none exists. •An operator who sweats the details of execution while keeping sight of the portfolio-level picture. •A leader who develops people and holds a bar for delivery. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!