Director - IT PMO / Chief of Staff

Position Summary: The Director of IT PMO / Chief of Staff is a strategic leadership role reporting directly to the CIO. This individual will drive execution excellence across the IT portfolio, and lead firm-wide planning and governance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the IT PMO to ensure consistent project governance, delivery excellence, and alignment with strategic priorities.
• Own the IT Project Roadmap, maintaining a 12–18 month forward-looking view of initiatives, dependencies, and resource planning.
• Manage the IT portfolio, facilitating prioritization and trade-off decisions in collaboration with IT and WLG departments.
• Drive cross-functional coordination to reduce “fire drills” and improve proactive planning, communication, and execution.
• Serve as a liaison between IT leadership and other departments, ensuring transparency, alignment, and shared accountability.
• Lead Agile transformation across the firm, embedding agile principles and practices into IT delivery and culture.
• Oversee IT budgeting and financial planning, including contract management, vendor oversight, and renewal readiness.
• Partner with Procurement in RFP processes for new technologies, ensuring alignment with firm needs, technical standards, and budget constraints.
• Establish and track IT performance metrics, providing visibility into delivery timelines.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence across the IT organization.

Physical Requirements:  

• Office environment with normal business hours necessary to satisfactorily perform job functions.   
• Stationary Position – Must be able to remain in a stationary position up to 50% of the time.  
• Move or Traverse – This position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, meeting rooms, office machinery, etc.  May occasionally ascends/descends the stairs to get to other floors, cafeteria and parking area.
• Dexterity – constantly operates a computer and other office machinery such as a copy machine/printer.  
• Move, Transport, Position, Put, Install, Remove - Occasionally moves supplies weighing up to 10 pounds for various presentation and event needs. 
• Communicate, Detect, Converse with, Discern, Convey, Express oneself, Exchange information - The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.
• Detect, Determine, Perceive, Identify, Recognize, Judge, Observe, Inspect, Estimate, Assess - The ability to observe details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

Benefits and Perks:

• Medical, dental, vision
• Company paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Company Paid STD (with no waiting period) and LTD Insurance
• Option to purchase additional Life and AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital Indemnity Coverage
• 401(k) with company contributions
• Paid Time Off
• 10 Company Holidays 
• Tuition Reimbursement