Portfolio Lead

Join Entain, a leading global sports betting and gaming company. As a Portfolio Lead, you will be accountable for delivery performance across multiple pods, ensuring they operate as self-organizing units delivering value outcomes. You will champion AI adoption, monitor and improve delivery flow, and support teams in breaking down work into deliverable increments. Additionally, you will define and maintain delivery metrics, manage risks and dependencies, and provide hands-on coaching at the pod level.

Responsibilities

• Pod Performance & Accountability: Responsible for pod delivery performance across the sub-domain, leading and communicating delivery health, risks, and performance to leadership.
• AI-Augmented Delivery: Champion AI agent adoption across pods, identifying opportunities where AI can reduce toil, accelerate delivery, or improve decision-making.
• Flow & Efficiency: Monitor and improve delivery flow using Kanban and lean principles, ensuring WIP limits are respected and surfacing aging items through Board Walks.
• Stakeholder Engagement Builds working relationships across pods and leadership
• Improve Performance Raises the bar through data and experimentation

Requirements

• You will have 7+ years in delivery/agile roles, with at least 3 years operating across multiple teams simultaneously in a technology environment
• Expert in flow-based delivery approaches (Kanban, lean, continuous delivery) — not limited to Scrum

Experience enabling multiple teams/pods simultaneously at scale

• Strong understanding of AI tooling and its application to software delivery (coding assistants, automation, intelligent analytics)
• Experienced in capacity planning, demand forecasting and resource optimisation across multiple teams
• Use data to solve complex problems; can interpret and communicate complex data sets clearly
• Previous experience of organisational transformation and change management
• Good knowledge of Objectives and Key Results (OKR) strategy
• You will embody the Maker Dimensions - selecting for capability, not just competence. We are looking for people who are versatile, curious, and able to operate with autonomy in a high-trust environment.
• AI Fluency uses AI tooling; experiments; iterate with AI as a collaborator
• Agency & Accountability Owns outcomes, not just tasks; directs itself.
• Systems Thinking Sees patterns across pods and addresses causes, not symptoms
• Build Capability Invests in developing pods, individuals and self

Preferred

• Experience in a regulated industry (gaming, fintech, or similar) desirable

Benefits

• At Entain, we know that signing top players requires a great starting package, and plenty of support to inspire peak performance. Join us, and a competitive salary is just the beginning.
• Depending on your role and location, you can expect to receive benefits like
• A regular bonus
• Healthcare support
• A stake in our success through our ShareSave scheme

Great development opportunities

• Wellbeing support, and so much more.
• And outside of this, you'll have the chance to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into amazing prizes, join a winning team of talented people and be a part of an inclusive and supporting community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves.

• Cross-functional Versatility Comfortable operating beyond their primary discipline
• Product Sense Connects their work to customer and outcomes

• *Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.*
• 50,200+