P6P6 — Principal Professional
Director
Director of Program/Project Management - Sets project management vision and standards.
What this level means
Top individual contributor; recognized authority with strategic impact, equivalent to a low executive level
- Scope
- Organization-wide architecture and the hardest problems
- Autonomy
- Defines direction; minimal oversight
- Complexity
- Strategic, open-ended problems shaping the technical future
- Impact
- Organization-wide
- Decision rights
- Sets technical strategy for a major area
- Leadership
- Recognized authority; multiplies many teams
- Typical experience
- 12–18 yrs
What you'd do
- Defines vision and governance for project management
- Ensures project portfolio delivers business value
- Builds partnerships across divisions
- Aligns project management with organizational strategy
- Leads enterprise-wide change initiatives
- Represents project management at executive level
- Drives innovation and best practices
- Facilitates strategic decision-making
- Monitors organizational project performance
- Define vision and governance for project management
- Ensure project portfolio delivers business value
- Build partnerships across divisions
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Executive leadership
- Strategic decision-making
- Innovation management
- Partnership building
- Performance monitoring
- Best practice implementation
- Governance
- Change management
- Organizational strategy frameworks
- Change management principles
- Innovation management strategies
- Executive leadership techniques
- Enterprise portfolio governance
- Strategic decision-making processes
- Performance monitoring systems
- Best practices in project management
- Executive Leadership
- Organizational strategy and change management
- Enterprise portfolio governance
- Innovation management
- Strategic decision-making
- Partnership Building
- Performance monitoring
- Best practice implementation
What good looks like
- Bachelor’s degree
- 12+ years with demonstrable program/portfolio leadership
- Executive education preferred
- Board-level communication skills preferred
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 13-0000 — Business & Financial Operations Occupations(inferred · under review)
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are coming — JobFrame anchors pay to the family/level structure rather than the raw title.