Portfolio Strategy Director
$140,000–$155,000 year
Remote
Job Summary
Facilitate portfolio prioritization and tradeoff conversations between product, engineering, and business leaders to help allocate resources for long-term goals. Connect product and engineering work to the financial plan by maintaining capacity models and defining ROI for the E-Team and Board. Define the reporting architecture for product and engineering outcomes, building structures that translate data into actionable insights across operating rhythms and board-level narratives. Partner across functions on major cross-functional programs, bringing senior alignment to critical tradeoffs involving Product, Engineering, Sales, or CX. This role operates at the portfolio level to ensure product and engineering outcomes achieve Applied's long-term goals, with direct visibility into E-Team decisions and influence across every function. Candidates must reside in North America, working remotely.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years combined across product operations, business operations, chief of staff roles, strategy/operations consulting, or high-growth SaaS operations
- Has the ability to work from an Applied Systems office or 100% remotely
- Candidate will need to reside in North America
- Working arrangement will be remote
Desired Qualifications
- High agency. You take ambiguous, high-stakes problems and drive them to a decision without waiting to be told how
- You can build an operating model, structure a complex cross-functional analysis, and pull together a board-ready deck in the same week
- Comfortable being the operational and analytical backbone in a room full of engineers, product managers, and commercial leaders
- Scrappy enough to pull your own data when the perfect report doesn't exist yet
- Communicates naturally across audiences: Teammates, engineering teams, product leaders, C-suite
- You've built the playbook in places where one didn't exist, then made it repeatable
- Genuine curiosity about insurance technology and AI commercialization
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