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6sense is seeking a Senior Portfolio Program Manager to orchestrate Research & Development portfolio management across assigned pillars. Reporting to the Head of Program Management, this individual contributor will partner with Product and Engineering Pillar Leaders to maintain visibility into portfolio commitments, dependencies, risks, capacity, readiness, and key decisions. The role combines Agile coaching with portfolio program management to strengthen planning discipline, execution health, and continuous improvement while translating team-level insights into actionable portfolio visibility and leadership decision support.
Key responsibilities include establishing and maintaining portfolio baselines with Product and Engineering leaders, including commitments, milestones, dependencies, ownership, readiness expectations, capacity assumptions, and success measures. The role maintains visibility into portfolio commitments and execution progress, surfacing material variances and coordinating appropriate change-management actions when scope, timeline, resource, or delivery commitments materially change.
The Portfolio Program Manager will establish and continuously improve portfolio metrics, dashboards, reporting practices, automation, and AI-enabled workflows that strengthen portfolio visibility, decision-making, execution transparency, and operational efficiency. A key focus is identifying, evaluating, and introducing AI, automation, and emerging technologies that improve Program Management effectiveness and scalability.
The role serves as a champion for AI-enabled Program Management, continuously identifying and introducing automation, emerging technologies, and workflow improvements that increase scalability, operational efficiency, and decision-making effectiveness. The Portfolio Program Manager coordinates, synthesizes, and escalates material exceptions across teams, product areas, pillars, and functions.
Accountability for product strategy, roadmap priorities, customer outcomes, engineering architecture, technical design, staffing, performance management, team execution, Scrum practices, backlog management, Jira hygiene, funding decisions, launch approvals, and risk acceptance remains with the appropriate Product and Engineering leaders. End-to-end ownership of strategic initiatives is assumed only when explicitly assigned.
