[Remote] Digital Portfolio Operations Leader

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, is seeking a Digital Portfolio Operations Leader. This role is responsible for orchestrating portfolio management and governance, ensuring operational clarity, and driving strategic alignment across various digital initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own and run weekly, monthly, and quarterly OSCQ DT staff operating rhythms end‑to‑end
• Own all content, templates, materials, and preparation for leadership meetings, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment
• Lead developing content for key leadership forums, enterprise reviews, and executive‑level presentations
• Fully own action and deliverable tracking across leadership forums and ensure timely closure
• Maintain alignment, structure, and readiness across all leadership meetings and key touchpoints
• Lead the transformation, implementation, and adoption of portfolio management and governance processes and tools across OSCQ DT teams and key stakeholders
• Design, standardize, and maintain frameworks for prioritization, intake, decision-making, and value realization
• Influence cross functional teams (DT, ES, Cyber, GRC, OSCQ, Engineering, Business Units) to adopt and operate within a shared portfolio governance model
• Drive continuous reporting that provides real-time insights into progress, risks, decisions, value delivered, capacity demands/gaps, and financials
• Own portfolio issue/risk/decision/action tracking and ensure timely closure
• Consolidate and synthesize strategies, long‑range plans, and roadmaps from across OSCQ DT teams into a unified, executive‑ready OSCQ DT strategy view
• Create and enforce roadmap standards, templates, and norms to ensure consistent, enterprise‑ready artifacts
• Drive visibility into cross‑program dependencies, capacity constraints, and long‑term investment priorities
• Ensure roadmap changes and actions are tracked, transparent, and closed with discipline
• Build high‑quality executive‑level presentations, narratives, and decision materials for Senior Leadership Team and enterprise steering bodies
• Simplify complex program portfolios into concise, outcome‑oriented updates that support executive decision‑making
• Ensure all SLT actions are documented, tracked, communicated, and closed on time.Partner with the Executive Director to prepare for key leadership engagements and represent OSCQ DT priorities
• Lead major initiatives that span across OSCQ DT teams, including culture improvements, training programs, communication enhancements, and execution transparency efforts
• Design and optimize internal operating processes to eliminate friction, increase alignment, and accelerate decision‑making
• Drive consistency in action management, follow‑through, and accountability across all programs and leadership teams

Skills

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 14 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 12 years of experience
• 10+ years of experience with meaningful examples of leading portfolio management, project mgmt., consulting, and/or digital transformation
• Experience building and scaling governance models, operating rhythms, and portfolio reporting
• Experience in strategic planning, prioritization, capacity modeling, and action tracking
• Strong executive communication and storytelling capabilities
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders in a complex matrixed environment
• Experience driving organizational change and maturing ways of working
• Experience in manufacturing, aerospace/defense, industrial digitalization, or regulated environments
• Experience building or leading program management teams
• SAFe/Agile, PMP, or similar credentials

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• 401(k) match
• Flexible spending accounts
• Flexible work schedules
• Employee assistance program
• Employee Scholar Program
• Parental leave
• Paid time off
• Holidays
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement

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