Product Engineering & Technical Program Management Portfolio/Region Lead (Director)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• 15+ years of experience in engineering leadership, technical product leadership, technical program management, or a closely related field, including significant experience leading teams.
• Proven success leading distributed engineering and technical program organizations at enterprise scale and delivering software products adopted by internal or external users.
• Demonstrated experience directing complex, cross-functional programs across multiple engineering teams, product management, design, operations, and business stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of modern software delivery practices, including Agile, DevOps, continuous delivery, platform engineering, and flow metrics.
• Strong architectural fluency across scalable system design, integrations, security, reliability, and the relationship between technical decisions and delivery risk.
• Experience establishing operating models, governance, standards, and performance measures across multiple teams or regions.
• Strong strategic judgment in portfolio prioritization, investment allocation, dependency management, and scope or sequencing trade-offs.
• Ability to influence executives and align stakeholders across Product, Technology, Architecture, Security, Operations, and the business.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical and program information into clear decisions and recommendations.
• Experience managing and developing technical program managers, scrum masters, engineering leaders, or comparable roles across distributed locations.
• Working fluency with AI tools and experience planning AI or machine-learning work where evaluation is iterative, quality is measured statistically, and model, data, cost, and latency constraints affect delivery.
• Preferred Experience
• Experience delivering enterprise-grade products in professional services or another regulated environment.
• Experience with a platform-plus-solutions model and scaling shared capabilities across products, audiences, tenants, or markets.
• Experience establishing enterprise engineering standards for observability, security, reliability, experimentation, feature management, and progressive rollout.
• Experience using product analytics and adoption measures to evaluate launch outcomes and value realization.
• Experience building global delivery models across the United States, India, and Europe and partnering with external engineering vendors.
• The base salary range for this position is between $184,000 and $260,000. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.