Job Description

The IT Agile Program Director operates at the program execution level with ownership of program strategy alignment and execution within the portfolio. This position translates approved strategy into executable plans and ensures delivery progresses predictably across teams while reflecting both portfolio direction and program-level strategic intent.

IT Agile Program Directors do not own product content, technical direction, or enterprise strategy. They serve as connective tissue between Product Owners, teams, RTEs, and IT leadership (Portfolio) to ensure alignment, flow health, and outcome clarity. The IT Agile Program Director operates at the Product Strategy Coherence layer, ensuring product decisions across teams remain aligned to program strategy within the portfolio.

IT Agile Program Directors focus on maintaining alignment between portfolio direction, program strategy and team-level execution, systemic risk and dependency visibility, and flow health across delivery phases. Coaching Product Owners towards product maturity, ensuring Product Owners’ delivery decisions collectively reflect coherent product strategy across teams. Translating delivery reality into actionable insight to inform product and program-level strategy decisions by senior leadership and the Agile Transformation Office (ATO).



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The University of South Florida is a top-ranked research university serving approximately 50,000 students from across the globe at campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg and USF Health. In 2025, U.S. News & World Report recognized USF with its highest overall ranking in university history, as a top 50 public university for the seventh consecutive year and as one of the top 15 best values among all public universities in the nation. U.S. News also ranks the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine in the highest tier, placing it as one of the top 16 medical schools in the nation and inside the top 10 among public universities. USF is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), a group that includes only the top 3% of universities in the U.S. With an all-time high of $750 million in research funding in 2025 and as a top 20 public university for producing U.S. patents, USF uses innovation to transform lives and shape a better future. The university generates an annual economic impact of nearly $10 billion for the state of Florida. USF’s Division I athletics teams compete in the American Conference. Learn more at www.usf.edu.

USF is proud to be an innovating partner within the Tampa Bay region, listed by Forbes as the top emerging tech city in the country.