Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tempo Software provides integrated solutions for time management, resource planning, budget management, roadmapping, program management, and reporting. The Principal Consultant, SPM Implementation will deliver Strategic Portfolio Management implementations end to end, advise PMO and portfolio leaders, create the company’s implementation methodology, enable internal teams and partners, and build the emerging SPM practice.
Responsibilities
- Run SPM implementations end to end, post-sale: discovery and maturity assessment, portfolio design (demand intake, capacity planning, prioritization, governance cadence), rollout, and adoption
- Sit with PMO and portfolio leaders as a peer — the senior practitioner in the room, not the note-taker. Ask the questions that reveal where an organization sits on the maturity curve, from project tracking through portfolio governance to strategic planning, and design the engagement to move them one honest stage, not five imaginary ones
- Translate legacy muscle memory into better experiences rather than mapping features one to one: "Here is how you ran stage-gate approvals in Clarity; here is the modular version." "Here is your Planview capacity plan; here is what it looks like when the data lives in Jira instead of syncing from it."
- Take occasional pre-sales pull-in on competitive displacement deals, where "I ran Planview implementations for eight years" closes credibility gaps no slide can
- Write the methodology: Tempo's SPM implementation playbook, maturity model, and reference architectures. From scratch, in your name
- Build enablement for Customer Success (CS), sales, and partners so the practice scales past you
- Feed field learning to product — providing context and connecting dots
- Make the hiring case, then hire and lead a small team as the practice proves out
Skills
- Deep SPM implementation experience: multiple implementations of Planview, Clarity, Jira Align, ServiceNow SPM, Targetprocess, or equivalents — whether at the vendor, at a consultancy, inside an enterprise PMO as the practitioner who ran the tool, or at an Atlassian Solution Partner delivering Jira Align or Tempo's products against legacy displacements
- Native fluency in the buyer's language: demand management, capacity and scenario planning, investment funding, benefits realization, Lean Portfolio Management. Agile, waterfall, and hybrid all count; there is no prescribed framework here
- A working mental model of the stages of project, portfolio, and strategic management maturity, and the judgment to meet an organization where it actually is
- Standing credibility with PMO directors and portfolio leaders, including the spine to challenge executives when the design calls for it
- You could run an SPM implementation in your sleep. We will still be impressed when you do it awake
- • Certifications that signal depth: Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Practice Consultant (SPC), Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP), Project Management Professional (PMP), or ServiceNow's Certified Implementation Specialist for SPM (CIS-SPM). Any of these helps; none is required
- • Atlassian ecosystem experience: Solution Partner background or hands-on time with Tempo's products
- • Prior practice-building at a consultancy or a vendor services organization
Benefits
- Remote First work environment
- Unlimited vacation in most of our locations
- Health, dental, vision and savings plan
- Training reimbursement
- WFH reimbursement
- Professional development, including conferences, courses, and mentorship
- Social activities, both in person and virtual
- Optional in-person meet-ups
- Ability to travel to international offices
- Employee referral program
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