PMO Head - Governance

The Governance Head – CEO Office operates as a strategic extension of the CEO, responsible for establishing, running, and enforcing enterprise-wide governance, operating cadence, and leadership accountability. This role ensures organizational discipline, delivery predictability, risk visibility, and execution alignment across portfolios, while explicitly staying out of day-to-day operations.

To institutionalize governance, decision discipline, and execution rigor across the organization, enabling the CEO to drive growth and strategy with confidence, clarity, and control.

- Design and operate enterprise governance frameworks across Portfolios, Delivery, and Support functions

- Own CEO / Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly with outcome-driven dashboards

- Ensure portfolio-level predictability on revenue, delivery, utilization, and risk

- Act as custodian of decision-rights, escalation models, and accountability tracking

- Identify cross-portfolio risks, dependencies, and systemic bottlenecks

- Drive compliance posture (ISO, SOC, internal controls) as an enabler, not a blocker

- Enforce leadership discipline through structured reviews and follow-through

- Prepare concise, forward-looking CEO briefs with risks, trade-offs, and decision asks

- Governance cadence and quality

- Leadership accountability tracking

- Portfolio health visibility

- Enterprise risk and compliance posture

- Decision escalation integrity

- Day-to-day delivery execution

- Sales closures or account ownership

- People management within delivery teams

- Operational firefighting

- CEO and Executive Committee

- Portfolio Heads (Automotive, IoT, Smart Devices, Compute)

- Service Delivery Leadership

- Finance, HR, TA, Business Operations

- Predictable revenue and delivery metrics across portfolios

- Reduction in unplanned escalations reaching CEO

- Improved review quality and leadership preparedness

- Compliance maturity without delivery slowdown

- Clear ownership and closure of cross-functional issues

- 15+ years in Governance, Delivery Excellence, Program Management, or Enterprise Operations

- Strong experience working with CEO / CXO stakeholders

- Deep understanding of engineering services or technology organizations

- Proven ability to influence without authority

- Strong judgment, structured thinking, and executive communication skills

- Experience with ISO, SOC, internal audits, or enterprise governance preferred