Chief of Staff, Product Engineering

The Role

Partners with the EVP of Product Engineering to manage strategic planning, operating rhythms, executive communications, portfolio governance, cross-functional alignment, and special initiatives. Tracks commitments, milestones, risks, dependencies, and outcomes while improving decision-making, organizational effectiveness, and leadership accountability across Product, Engineering, Technology, Finance, and Human Resources.

Team Overview

The Product Engineering organization brings together product and engineering leadership to translate enterprise priorities into coordinated plans, decisions, and execution. The team works across Product, Engineering, Technology, Finance, Human Resources, and other partners to improve portfolio visibility, operating discipline, and delivery of strategic commitments. This role reports directly to the EVP, Product Engineering. TransUnion offers a welcoming, collaborative environment where associates can build new capabilities while contributing to pioneering products and technology.

This is a remote position which may require occasional in-person attendance at work-related events at the discretion of management.

Role Overview and Core Responsibilities

• Partner with the EVP, Product Engineering to translate strategic priorities into an integrated operating agenda, clear decisions, and coordinated execution across the organization.
• Lead the Product Engineering operating rhythm, including executive reviews, planning forums, leadership meetings, agendas, decision records, and follow-through on commitments.
• Coordinate strategic and long-range planning activities, connecting objectives, execution plans, milestones, dependencies, and expected outcomes.
• Develop executive communications, presentations, talking points, briefing materials, and decision support that synthesize complex information for senior stakeholders.
• Maintain portfolio-level visibility into strategic commitments, milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes; elevate issues that require leadership action.
• Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Technology, Finance, Human Resources, and other partners by clarifying ownership, sequencing work, and resolving cross-functional gaps.
• Lead special initiatives sponsored by the EVP from problem definition through recommendation, mobilization, execution, and outcome tracking.
• Strengthen governance, prioritization, decision-making, and leadership accountability processes to improve organizational focus and execution.
• Advance organizational effectiveness and change leadership efforts, serving as a trusted advisor and coordination point for sensitive or high-priority matters.

Required Knowledge and Experiences

• 8 years of experience partnering with senior executives or leadership teams in strategy, operations, planning, chief of staff, consulting, technology, product, or engineering environments, with the judgment required to support enterprise-level decisions.
• Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional initiatives from plannng through execution in a matrixed organization, including management of risks, dependencies, and stakeholder commitments.
• Strong executive-level written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to convert quantitative and qualitative information into concise recommendations, presentations, and briefing materials.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority, establish trusted relationships, prioritize competing demands, and operate effectively in ambiguous or sensitive situations.

Required Technical Skills

• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 tools used for executive communication, analysis, and collaboration, including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Experience using AI-enabled productivity tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, to support synthesis, content development, planning, and decision support while applying appropriate judgment and review.
• 8 years of experience in portfolio, project-management, product-management, engineering-planning, analytics, or visualization platforms.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting a large-scale Product Engineering, technology, or digital transformation organization.
• Familiarity with portfolio governance, operating-model design, organizational effectiveness, and change leadership practices.
• Ability to facilitate senior-leadership discussions, create alignment among varied perspectives, and move decisions into action.

Benefits that support every part of your life:

At TransUnion, we design benefits to help you feel well, do well, and plan well—from day one.

For Your Health: Enjoy day-one eligibility for medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus supplemental plan options. Spousal, domestic partner, and other eligible dependent coverage is available on select plans. Choose tax‑advantaged HSA and FSA accounts to make everyday care more affordable.

For Your Protection: We’ve got your back with company‑paid basic life and AD&D, optional voluntary life and AD&D for you and your family, and short‑ and long‑term disability. You can also opt into a legal plan, pet insurance, and travel accident coverage.

For Your Family: From adoption assistance and fertility planning coverage to caregiver support, we’re here for every chapter. Access Dependent Care FSA for possibility of an employer match, a complimentary Care@Work membership, and up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave with eligibility for a thoughtful, gradual return.

For Your Future: Build toward what’s next with our 401(k) with employer match and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Tap financial wellness resources, career coaching, and optional long‑term care insurance to plan confidently.

For You: Grow and recharge with tuition reimbursement, flexible time off for exempt employees or paid time off for nonexempt employees, up to 12 paid holidays per year, commuter benefits, employee discounts, charitable gift matching, and paid volunteer time off, plus corporate volunteering.