Director, Tech Portfolio & Capacity Governance

Director, Tech Portfolio & Capacity Governance

This role sits within the Global Technology Solutions (GTS) and leads Tech Operations across customer, product, employee, and foundation teams. The Director of Tech Operations is responsible for enabling efficient and strategic utilization of technology capacity across the enterprise, supporting prioritization of work, estimation of tech asks from business partners, and overseeing the delivery cadence through quarterly roadmap management. You will act as a central point of coordination across different product technology teams, ensuring that capacity & tech estimates are transparently allocated and aligned to strategic outcomes. This role requires strong analytical rigor, operational discipline, and deep cross-functional collaboration.

What You'll Do

• Lead technology capacity planning and tracking across GTS, ensuring alignment business and technology objectives
• Responsible to manage demand & capacity planning across Annual Planning, Quarterly Planning, & in-year Intake process
• Maintain governance processes to monitor capacity utilization, operational health metrics, and roadmap & roadmap adherence. Evaluate continuous improvement opportunities
• Facilitate forums for decision-making on resource shifts, priority trade-offs, and escalations across technology and business leadership
• Provide clear executive reporting and storytelling on capacity trends, roadmap status, and operational risks or dependencies
• Establish and standardize estimation practices across all tech teams to assess effort and feasibility of business and strategic asks.
• Collaborate with engineering leads, product managers, and delivery teams to develop and validate high-level estimates for initiatives during early intake and planning stages.
• Maintain a library of historical estimation data to improve accuracy, enable benchmarking, and support predictability of delivery.
• Provide tooling and frameworks that allow for scalable estimation at varying levels of fidelity (e.g., t-shirt sizing, story points, hours / days).

Who You Are

Benefits at Gap Inc.