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Xcimer Energy is seeking a Head of PMO to establish and lead a world-class Program Management Office function. This is a foundational leadership role where you will define the PMO's vision, mandate, operating model, and multi-year roadmap in partnership with executive leadership.
You will establish the PMO as a hub-and-spoke function with direct accountability for the enterprise hub and dotted-line coordination to program managers embedded across the business. You will define clear roles, decision rights, engagement models, and escalation paths so that accountability is transparent across the organization.
Key responsibilities include:
**Governance & Standards**: Establish company-wide program management standards, playbooks, templates, and minimum controls with common definitions for scope, milestones, financials, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and value realization. Determine the appropriate mix of agile, hybrid, and traditional delivery discipline based on initiative complexity, risk, and business need. Lead independent health reviews and recovery planning for strategically important initiatives.
**Team Leadership**: Hire, manage, and mentor the PMO's core team. Coordinate program managers matrixed into other business units, ensuring they share common practices and community. Build enterprise program management capability company-wide through assessment, coaching, communities of practice, and talent development.
You will operate in a complex, matrixed organization where influence without direct authority is essential. This role requires exceptional executive presence, the ability to simplify complex portfolio information, and skill in facilitating tradeoff decisions with senior leadership. You must be comfortable introducing governance and standards in an engineering-intensive environment without slowing technical teams.
**Requirements:**
- 15+ years in program, portfolio, or PMO leadership, including demonstrated success building, transforming, or resetting a PMO or portfolio management function (not just running an existing one)
- Experience leading large, complex programs at billion-dollar scale preferred, within an engineering-intensive environment (semiconductor, laser, nuclear, space and defense, or similar)
- Experience operating across matrixed organizations and influencing program leaders, functional leaders, and executives without direct authority
- Experience working in ambiguous environments and building order and clarity from loosely defined problems
- Experience leading or supporting a hub-and-spoke PMO model with direct accountability for a central function and dotted-line relationships to embedded or divisional program managers
- Strong business and financial acumen; ability to connect strategy, execution, financial outcomes, capacity planning, investment choices, and measurable value
- Exceptional executive presence and communication skills
- Comfort introducing governance and standards in engineering, science, or hardware-intensive environments without slowing technical teams
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
**Desired qualifications:**
- Demonstrated proficiency in one or more core engineering disciplines (Nuclear, Aerospace, Laser, Optics, Electrical, or Mechanical)
- Experience with design and construction of one-of-a-kind prototype systems
- Experience in national laboratory, aerospace, defense, energy, or another engineering/science-intensive, regulated, or export-controlled environment
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance (U.S. citizenship required for clearance eligibility)
