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In this role, you will be a key partner to NAM Privacy leadership, helping turn global privacy frameworks, priorities, and regulatory developments into clear regional actions. You will create the operating rhythm that connects local privacy teams, Legal, Cybersecurity, business stakeholders, and global Privacy Governance.
You will bring visibility to what is happening across NAM by maintaining the privacy governance calendar, tracking actions and risks, developing KPIs and dashboards, monitoring implementation plans, and ensuring issues are followed through to resolution.
Just as importantly, you will help build and animate an active NAM privacy community, creating the network and information flow required for privacy governance to work effectively across a complex multinational organization.
What will you be responsible for?
Privacy governance & PMO
- Own and coordinate the NAM privacy governance calendar, reviews, action tracking, decisions, deadlines, and escalation process.
- Maintain a consolidated view of regional privacy priorities, initiatives, obligations, risks, dependencies, and remediation activities.
- Coordinate with local teams to establish clear actions, owners, and deadlines and follow through to completion.
- Monitor local privacy implementation plans, controls, and supporting evidence.
- Identify gaps, delays, or unclear ownership and ensure they are appropriately escalated.
- Provide structured regional input into global privacy governance and executive reporting.
Analytics, monitoring & reporting
- Develop and maintain privacy dashboards, KPIs, metrics, and trend analysis for NAM.
- Provide governance visibility into privacy incidents, including volumes, status, response milestones, overdue actions, and lessons learned.
- Maintain consolidated visibility of individual-rights requests, including volumes, ownership, response times, and ageing.
- Turn operational information into clear, concise leadership insights, highlighting trends, risks, recurring issues, and areas requiring action.
- Maintain accurate action registers, decision logs, implementation records, and governance evidence.
Privacy framework & change implementation
- Support NAM implementation of global privacy policies, processes, tools, and initiatives.
- Help translate new or changing privacy requirements into structured regional actions and implementation plans.
- Track adoption and effectiveness of key privacy practices, including records of processing, consent governance, privacy risk assessments, and relevant contractual controls.
- Support privacy assurance activities, internal audits, and remediation plans.
- Identify common capability gaps or adoption challenges and coordinate appropriate support with Privacy Governance and subject matter experts.
Community & capability building
- Build and maintain a strong network across NAM, connecting local Privacy, Legal, Cybersecurity, Digital, business, and functional stakeholders.
- Run regular regional privacy forums covering regulatory developments, operational priorities, lessons learned, and global initiatives.
- Support onboarding, knowledge sharing, and capability building across the NAM privacy community.
- Create the communication and governance structure that allows information, risks, and actions to flow effectively between local teams and regional and global privacy leadership.
(External) English Qualifications:
What qualifications will make you successful?
You are likely to bring:
- Significant experience in privacy governance, compliance operations, risk, PMO, or a related field, ideally within a large multinational organization.
- Strong knowledge of privacy operations, frameworks, and controls.
- Experience translating privacy or compliance requirements into practical governance, monitoring, reporting, and action plans.
- Experience monitoring privacy operational activities, including privacy incidents and individual-rights requests.
- Strong program and project management skills, including action tracking, dependency management, deadlines, risk management, and escalation.
- Hands-on experience developing dashboards, KPIs, metrics, management reporting, and compliance calendars.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn complex information into concise, actionable insights for leadership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- A demonstrated ability to coordinate and influence diverse stakeholders across functions and geographies without relying on direct authority.
- The ability to work independently, bring structure to ambiguity, and proactively drive actions forward.
- High standards of confidentiality, judgment, reliability, organization, and attention to detail.
- A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience.
What does success look like?
Bring your risk management expertise to a team that's building the future responsibly—apply today!
At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.
Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: “We see you. We value you”. It’s more than just pay and benefits- it’s a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker.
For this U.S. based position, the expected pay range is USD 142,400 - USD 213,600 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives. The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the pay range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Schneider Electric is there when it matters most to you
Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you’ll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:
Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks, flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, well-being programs, 12 holidays per year, and 15 days of paid time off per year.
Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs including base salary, incentives, company share ownership, and 401(k) with match.
Grow Your Skills and Career. We support development through performance discussions, global opportunities, the Schneider Career Hub, and learning platforms like Coursera.
Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage collaboration, recognition, sharing your voice, and an inclusive workplace.
Support Your Community. We make a difference through volunteer leave, programs with the Schneider Electric Foundation, youth education initiatives, and military leave benefits.
If you believe this job posting is not compliant with applicable state pay transparency laws in the U.S., please notify the Company as soon as possible upon discovery by completing this form Job Posting Compliance Form.
(External) English Company Boiler Plate:
Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!
€40 billion global revenue
+9% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.
In this role, you will be a key partner to NAM Privacy leadership, helping turn global privacy frameworks, priorities, and regulatory developments into clear regional actions. You will create the operating rhythm that connects local privacy teams, Legal, Cybersecurity, business stakeholders, and global Privacy Governance.
You will bring visibility to what is happening across NAM by maintaining the privacy governance calendar, tracking actions and risks, developing KPIs and dashboards, monitoring implementation plans, and ensuring issues are followed through to resolution.
Just as importantly, you will help build and animate an active NAM privacy community, creating the network and information flow required for privacy governance to work effectively across a complex multinational organization.
What will you be responsible for?
Privacy governance & PMO
- Own and coordinate the NAM privacy governance calendar, reviews, action tracking, decisions, deadlines, and escalation process.
- Maintain a consolidated view of regional privacy priorities, initiatives, obligations, risks, dependencies, and remediation activities.
- Coordinate with local teams to establish clear actions, owners, and deadlines and follow through to completion.
- Monitor local privacy implementation plans, controls, and supporting evidence.
- Identify gaps, delays, or unclear ownership and ensure they are appropriately escalated.
- Provide structured regional input into global privacy governance and executive reporting.
Analytics, monitoring & reporting
- Develop and maintain privacy dashboards, KPIs, metrics, and trend analysis for NAM.
- Provide governance visibility into privacy incidents, including volumes, status, response milestones, overdue actions, and lessons learned.
- Maintain consolidated visibility of individual-rights requests, including volumes, ownership, response times, and ageing.
- Turn operational information into clear, concise leadership insights, highlighting trends, risks, recurring issues, and areas requiring action.
- Maintain accurate action registers, decision logs, implementation records, and governance evidence.
Privacy framework & change implementation
- Support NAM implementation of global privacy policies, processes, tools, and initiatives.
- Help translate new or changing privacy requirements into structured regional actions and implementation plans.
- Track adoption and effectiveness of key privacy practices, including records of processing, consent governance, privacy risk assessments, and relevant contractual controls.
- Support privacy assurance activities, internal audits, and remediation plans.
- Identify common capability gaps or adoption challenges and coordinate appropriate support with Privacy Governance and subject matter experts.
Community & capability building
- Build and maintain a strong network across NAM, connecting local Privacy, Legal, Cybersecurity, Digital, business, and functional stakeholders.
- Run regular regional privacy forums covering regulatory developments, operational priorities, lessons learned, and global initiatives.
- Support onboarding, knowledge sharing, and capability building across the NAM privacy community.
- Create the communication and governance structure that allows information, risks, and actions to flow effectively between local teams and regional and global privacy leadership.
(External) English Qualifications:
What qualifications will make you successful?
You are likely to bring:
- Significant experience in privacy governance, compliance operations, risk, PMO, or a related field, ideally within a large multinational organization.
- Strong knowledge of privacy operations, frameworks, and controls.
- Experience translating privacy or compliance requirements into practical governance, monitoring, reporting, and action plans.
- Experience monitoring privacy operational activities, including privacy incidents and individual-rights requests.
- Strong program and project management skills, including action tracking, dependency management, deadlines, risk management, and escalation.
- Hands-on experience developing dashboards, KPIs, metrics, management reporting, and compliance calendars.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn complex information into concise, actionable insights for leadership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- A demonstrated ability to coordinate and influence diverse stakeholders across functions and geographies without relying on direct authority.
- The ability to work independently, bring structure to ambiguity, and proactively drive actions forward.
- High standards of confidentiality, judgment, reliability, organization, and attention to detail.
- A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience.
What does success look like?
Bring your risk management expertise to a team that's building the future responsibly—apply today!
At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.
Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: “We see you. We value you”. It’s more than just pay and benefits- it’s a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker.
For this U.S. based position, the expected pay range is USD 142,400 - USD 213,600 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives. The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the pay range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Schneider Electric is there when it matters most to you
Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you’ll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:
Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks, flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, well-being programs, 12 holidays per year, and 15 days of paid time off per year.
Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs including base salary, incentives, company share ownership, and 401(k) with match.
Grow Your Skills and Career. We support development through performance discussions, global opportunities, the Schneider Career Hub, and learning platforms like Coursera.
Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage collaboration, recognition, sharing your voice, and an inclusive workplace.
Support Your Community. We make a difference through volunteer leave, programs with the Schneider Electric Foundation, youth education initiatives, and military leave benefits.
If you believe this job posting is not compliant with applicable state pay transparency laws in the U.S., please notify the Company as soon as possible upon discovery by completing this form Job Posting Compliance Form.
(External) English Company Boiler Plate:
Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!
€40 billion global revenue
+9% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Energy
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in PMO lead jobs.
- Five or more years of project or program management experience in a structured PMO environment
- Active PMP certification or equivalent project management credential from PMI
- Demonstrated experience building or maturing a PMO from initial setup through steady-state operations
- Proficiency with enterprise project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or Planview
- Strong stakeholder management skills including executive reporting and portfolio-level communication
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, information technology, engineering, or a related field
Tips for Your PMO Lead Job Search
Tailor your resume to governance depth
PMO Lead postings reward specificity about your governance work. Describe the frameworks you owned, the number of projects you oversaw simultaneously, and the reporting structures you built, rather than listing tools or methodologies in isolation.
Certify before competing at the senior tier
Many senior pmo lead postings screen for PMP, PgMP, or PMI-ACP credentials at the application stage. If you're targeting director-level or enterprise roles, confirming your certifications are current removes a common early filter.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists pmo lead openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by delivery model not just title
Filter for postings that name the delivery model you've lived in, whether waterfall, scaled Agile, or hybrid. PMO leads hired into mismatched delivery cultures churn fast, so matching on method signals fit before the first screen.
Prepare a portfolio governance case study
Interviewers for pmo lead roles commonly ask you to walk through how you stood up a PMO or rescued a struggling program. Have one concrete example ready that covers scope, stakeholder conflict, and a measurable outcome you owned.
Negotiate scope before accepting an offer
PMO Lead roles vary enormously in real authority. Before signing, clarify whether you control resource allocation, can halt a project, and have direct access to the executive sponsor, because those boundaries define whether the role is leadable.
PMO Lead Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most pmo leads?
The companies hiring the most pmo leads right now include Avangrid, FIS, and SMX, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Virginia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially concentrated in technology services firms, federal contractors, and large healthcare systems running multi-year transformation programs.
How many pmo lead jobs are remote?
About 83% of pmo lead openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the role's heavy reliance on collaboration tools and async reporting. Governance-focused and IT PMO sub-roles tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while construction and manufacturing PMO leads are more likely to require an on-site or regional presence.
How do you become a pmo lead?
Start by building several years of hands-on project management experience, ideally across multiple projects running in parallel. Earn a recognized certification such as the PMP. Then take on team lead or PMO analyst roles that give you exposure to governance design, portfolio reporting, and resource planning. A track of progressively broader program ownership is what most hiring managers look for before promoting or hiring into a lead position.
Can you get hired as a pmo lead without direct PMO experience?
It's possible if you can demonstrate that your existing work maps to PMO functions. Candidates who built reporting structures, ran steering committees, or led cross-functional delivery teams in a non-PMO title often compete successfully. Framing your resume around governance outputs, portfolio visibility, and process standardization, rather than individual project delivery, is the most effective way to close the experience gap on paper.
What does the pmo lead interview process look like?
Most pmo lead interviews run three to four rounds. A recruiter screen is followed by a hiring manager conversation focused on your governance philosophy and leadership experience. A panel round with operations or IT stakeholders typically includes a scenario question about standing up a PMO or managing an underperforming program. Some employers add a written case study or presentation requirement before the final offer conversation.
Where can I find and apply to pmo lead jobs?
You can find and apply to pmo lead jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your background and preferences, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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