Hiring: Director, Program and Portfolio Management Company: Fanatics Location: Redwood City, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 11:13:32 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Change Management, Portfolio Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Management, Project Management About the job Experience: •8+ years of experience in program or portfolio management, ideally within technology or supply chain/operations environments, with a demonstrated ability to operate across a complex, multi-workstream portfolio. Required Skills: •How Will You Drive Impact •Success is measured by the ability to deliver results through BOLD capabilities and measurable outcomes. •Team & Leadership Impact (Build Championship Teams) •Cross-Functional Leadership •Partner closely with Product Management leadership, Engineering, and business sponsors to keep portfolio delivery status aligned to product roadmaps and priorities, and to surface and resolve scope, resourcing, and prioritization conflicts before they escalate. •Drive Change Management across Fanatics Technology to ensure the Project, Program & Portfolio Playbook is adopted and held to consistently organization-wide — not just within this team. •Support and help continuously improve the SteerCo, Monthly Leader Review, and Tech Bi-weekly cadences, ensuring prep and follow-through on actions and decisions are consistent with portfolio objectives. •People Leadership Qualifications: •Proven track record standing up or scaling PPM tools, governance models, or portfolio operating rhythms from the ground up — not simply inheriting and running an established system. •People management experience with a demonstrated ability to develop a team of Project and Program Managers and hold them accountable to a consistent delivery standard. •Strong business and transformation acumen — able to separate what's important from what's noise across a complex portfolio and comfortable managing up to senior leadership on where focus and attention should sit. •Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to distill complex, multi-workstream detail into clear, executive-ready materials and decision-ready narratives. •Preferred: Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) to run delivery workflows — status reporting, schedule/risk analysis, work-item creation, deck generation — with a genuine point of view on where AI should change program and portfolio management, not just automate the current process. •Preferred: Prior experience running or co-facilitating executive-level reporting cadences (SteerCo or equivalent) and/or leading large enterprise-wide transformation programs such as ERP or WMS implementations in a wholesale or retail environment. •Remote: As a fully remote role, the primary place of performance will be your residence or other approved remote location. •The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation. When determining base pay as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ Compensation: •$180,000 - $220,000 / year 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!