Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube. What you'll do: - Develop and execute the strategic vision, operating model, and multi-year maturity roadmap for the enterprise IT PMO. - Establish portfolio governance, intake, prioritization, funding, resource planning, stage-gate reviews, and escalation processes for technology initiatives. - Lead a portfolio of strategic enterprise programs spanning business applications, ERP, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud platforms, data and analytics, AI enablement, enterprise integrations, and end-user technology. - Partner with IT and business leadership to translate corporate priorities into a balanced, sequenced, and executable technology roadmap. - Define and enforce common program and project management methodologies, delivery standards, templates, controls, and performance metrics across the IT organization. - Build and lead a high-performing team of program managers, project managers, portfolio analysts, and business operations personnel; establish clear roles, career paths, coaching, and performance expectations. - Oversee delivery of large, complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, risks, security requirements, and business outcomes are actively managed. - Establish executive-level portfolio reporting that provides transparent visibility into project health, milestones, financial performance, dependencies, resource capacity, delivery risks, and decision requirements. - Create and maintain an integrated technology portfolio roadmap, including interdependencies across business functions, technology domains, vendors, and enterprise transformation programs. - Drive disciplined demand management and business-case development, including strategic alignment, cost estimates, benefits realization, implementation effort, risk assessment, and operating-model impacts. - Partner with Finance and IT leadership to manage technology investment planning, budget tracking, forecast accuracy, capitalization processes, vendor spend, and cost optimization initiatives. - Implement benefits-realization practices to measure whether completed initiatives achieve intended operational, financial, security, compliance, and business outcomes. - Lead program risk management, issue resolution, executive escalation, and recovery planning for initiatives that are off track or at risk of failing to meet commitments. - Establish resource-management practices that improve allocation, capacity planning, prioritization, utilization visibility, and delivery predictability across internal teams and strategic partners. - Partner closely with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Business Systems, Data, Finance, Legal, People, and business unit leadership to align execution plans with enterprise strategy and operational readiness. - Oversee relationships with systems integrators, implementation partners, consultants, and strategic technology vendors; ensure vendor delivery commitments, milestones, quality, and commercial obligations are actively governed. - Advance adoption of modern delivery practices, including Agile, hybrid, and product-oriented operating models, appropriately matched to the nature of the work. - Drive continuous improvement through portfolio analytics, post-implementation reviews, lessons learned, delivery-health assessments, and PMO maturity measurements. - Ensure programs appropriately address security, privacy, compliance, audit, data-governance, and change-management requirements. - Provide leadership during critical incidents, enterprise transformations, and high-visibility executive escalations as required. Required qualifications: - 12+ years of experience in technology program management, project management, portfolio management, business transformation, or related enterprise IT leadership roles. - 5+ years of leadership experience managing PMO, program management, project management, portfolio-management, or enterprise-transformation teams. - Demonstrated experience building or maturing an enterprise IT PMO in a complex, rapidly evolving, or high-growth organization. - Proven success leading large-scale, multi-year technology transformation programs with significant business impact, cross-functional dependencies, and executive visibility. - Strong experience governing portfolios that include enterprise applications, ERP, cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data platforms, integrations, and end-user technologies. - Deep...