[Remote] VP Portfolio Operations, 2 Hour Learning (Remote) - $200,000/year USD

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 2 Hour Learning is hiring a VP of Portfolio Operations to oversee execution across its EdTech portfolio. The role owns AI-powered portfolio dashboards, vendor performance and procurement, and contract and invoice controls to help executives manage delivery, costs, and risk.

Responsibilities

• Own portfolio-level dashboards across 10+ concurrent initiatives, using AI to standardize updates, detect slippage, expose blockers, and maintain a trusted executive view of delivery, budget, and risk
• Run recurring vendor performance reviews and maintain rubric-based scorecards that combine delivery, quality, cost, contractual commitments, and qualitative performance signals
• Lead competitive technology-vendor procurement, including structured bid packages, normalized comparisons, scoring rubrics, SOW development, and evidence-backed recommendations
• Govern contracts and invoices by tracking fee caps, milestones, acceptance criteria, and amendments, then validating invoices against signed terms before spend is approved
• Use AI daily to analyze portfolio data, detect anomalies, surface underperformance, draft decision-ready outputs, and reduce manual PMO administration
• Produce reliable, AI-powered dashboards, scorecards, procurement packages, and contract controls that give executives the clarity and leverage to hold vendors accountable, control costs, and accelerate delivery across a $50M EdTech portfolio

Skills

• Directly owned a portfolio of 10+ concurrent initiatives with at least $5M in budget responsibility, including authority over budget allocation, vendor selection, or initiative prioritization
• Managed 5+ external technology vendors at the same time, such as SaaS providers, AI/ML platforms, marketing agencies, or engineering firms
• Built and maintained portfolio-level dashboards covering metrics such as delivery health, budget burn versus forecast, milestone completion, and major risks or blockers
• Can point to a case where C-suite leaders used your portfolio data to make a go/no-go decision on a vendor renewal, budget reallocation, or initiative deprioritization
• Directly led competitive technology procurement, including structured bid evaluation, vendor scoring, negotiation, and selection
• Authored or co-authored SOWs with measurable deliverables, milestone payments, SLAs, acceptance criteria, or other performance-based terms
• Negotiated commercial terms such as pricing, penalties, fee caps, or exit clauses and enforced those terms through invoice validation or corrective action
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to turn complex financial and operational data into concise recommendations executives can act on
• Able to analyze financial and vendor-performance data quickly enough to recommend optimization, reallocation, or vendor elimination
• Able to work US business hours
• Experience using AI-enabled dashboards, anomaly detection, predictive alerts, or natural-language analysis in portfolio management
• Experience in EdTech, technology, consulting, or another environment managing complex portfolios of external technology partners
• Fluency with portfolio and delivery tools such as Linear, Jira, or similar systems

Benefits

• Remote-friendly environment

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