IT Project Management Director

Location: Hybrid, Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Salary: $155,900–$259,900 USD annually, plus eligibility for an annual bonus and long-term incentive plan.

Company

hirify.global provides healthcare services through Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, focused on improving the health and vitality of clients, customers, and patients.

What you will do

• Own intake, prioritization, sequencing, dependency management, delivery flow, and release execution across the Nova Platform team.
• Define the delivery operating model, planning cadence, governance, escalation pathways, milestones, release commitments, and accountable ownership.
• Coordinate delivery plans with architecture, quality, security, infrastructure, data, operational readiness, and cross-arm roadmap milestones.
• Identify bottlenecks, conflicting priorities, capacity constraints, and cross-team risks; create escalation and recovery plans when performance falls outside agreed tolerances.
• Establish delivery metrics and executive scorecards covering predictability, throughput, cycle time, work in progress, dependency health, quality, risk, and release reliability.
• Lead and develop project, program, release, and delivery-management professionals while managing resources, vendors, budgets, capacity, and cross-functional stakeholder relationships.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related experience is required.
• 10+ years of progressive technology program, portfolio, project, or delivery-management experience, including significant people-management experience.
• Experience leading complex enterprise technology portfolios or transformation programs.
• Experience establishing scalable governance, integrated plans, performance measures, and executive reporting.
• Experience managing teams, budgets, vendors, capacity, delivery risks, and cross-organizational dependencies.
• Expertise in technology program, portfolio, delivery, release, and dependency management.
• Experience operating Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models across complex engineering environments.
• Strong knowledge of software-development lifecycles, architecture governance, quality gates, DevSecOps, and production-readiness practices.
• Exceptional facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving, written communication, and presentation skills.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree and relevant program-management certification.
• Experience in healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, regulated technology, or similarly complex environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work is available; occasional or permanent home working requires cable broadband or fiber internet with at least 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload speeds.
• Medical, vision, dental, well-being, and behavioral health benefits are offered from the first day of employment.
• Benefits include a 401(k), company-paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, at least 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence.
• The role supports an accountable, fact-based, collaborative culture with rapid escalation and resolution.