Head of PMO (Fusion Energy)

Location: Denver, Colorado; full-time onsite at headquarters. Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted to the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Company

hirify.global develops inertial fusion energy technology using advanced laser architecture to deploy fusion power plants and support global decarbonization.

What you will do

• Define the PMO vision, mandate, operating model, and multi-year roadmap in partnership with department leadership.
• Establish a hub-and-spoke PMO model with direct accountability for enterprise governance, standards, tools, reporting, and staff, plus dotted-line coordination with Fusion and Defense program managers.
• Define roles, decision rights, engagement models, and escalation paths across the PMO and program teams.
• Establish company-wide program management standards, playbooks, templates, and controls covering scope, milestones, financials, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and value realization.
• Lead health reviews and recovery planning for strategically important initiatives and select agile, hybrid, or traditional delivery methods based on complexity, risk, and business need.
• Hire, manage, mentor, and develop the PMO team while building program management capability through coaching, assessments, communities of practice, and talent development.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in program, portfolio, or PMO leadership, including demonstrated success building, transforming, or resetting a PMO or portfolio management function.
• Experience establishing a PMO mandate, operating model, governance routines, standards, and adoption roadmap.
• Experience leading large, complex programs, preferably at billion-dollar scale, in an engineering-intensive environment such as semiconductor, laser, nuclear, space, or defense.
• Experience operating across a matrixed organization 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 connecting strategy, execution, financial outcomes, capacity planning, investment choices, and measurable value.
• Exceptional executive presence and communication skills, including simplifying complex portfolio information and facilitating tradeoff decisions with senior leadership.
• Ability to introduce governance and standards in engineering, science, or hardware-intensive environments without slowing technical teams down.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in a core engineering discipline such as nuclear, aerospace, laser, optics, electrical, or mechanical engineering.
• Experience with the design and construction of one-of-a-kind prototype systems.
• Experience in a national laboratory, aerospace, defense, energy, or other engineering-, science-, regulated-, or export-controlled environment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for clearance eligibility.

Culture & Benefits

• Work onsite at the Denver headquarters.
• Collaborate across fusion, defense, engineering, science, manufacturing, and executive functions.
• Build a PMO function and team from the ground up within a growing enterprise portfolio.
• Work on inertial fusion energy technology intended to support global decarbonization.