About the Position

We are looking for a Portfolio Lead to join our Advertising Department: Technology. This role is pivotal in driving delivery performance across a sub-domain of 4-6 pods (Engineering, Quality, Product). You will lead the flow of value from idea to production, ensuring pods deliver with pace, predictability, and understanding of outcomes.

Responsibilities

Pod Performance & Accountability
- Responsible for pod delivery performance across the sub-domain.
- Lead and communicate delivery health, risks, and performance to leadership.
- Ensure pods operate as self-organizing units delivering value outcomes.
- Support pod leads with coaching, facilitation, and conflict resolution.
- Ensure cross-pod agreement on priorities, dependencies, and shared goals.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration between pods to promote knowledge sharing.
Problem Solving
- Deploy root cause analysis, systems thinking, and structured techniques to analyze and guide resolutions.
- Be an escalation point for cross-pod blockers and systemic impediments.
- Identify patterns across pods that indicate deeper organizational or process issues.
AI-Augmented Delivery
- Champion AI agent adoption across pods, including coding agents, test generation, story creation, board health, and deployment automation.
- Identify opportunities where AI can reduce toil, accelerate delivery, or improve decision-making.
- Apply AI to improve delivery effectiveness, including workflow insights, risk prediction, and automation of reporting.
- Track and demonstrate the impact of AI on delivery performance.
Flow & Efficiency
- Monitor and improve delivery flow using Kanban and lean principles.
- Ensure WIP limits are respected and surface aging items through Board Walks.
- Identify bottlenecks, aging work, and sources of delay across pods.
- Improve through regular assessment and experimentation.
- Support teams in breaking down work into deliverable, value-driven increments.
Agile Ways of Working
- Support and evolve the agile operating model for a pod-based environment focused on pace, not ceremony.
- Adapt delivery approaches (Kanban, flow-based, lean) appropriate to each pod's needs.
- Ensure consistency of practice across pods without being prescriptive.
- Promote outcome-driven delivery vs output-driven activity.
- Guide teams to operate with autonomy and accountability.
Metrics & Reporting
- Define and maintain delivery metrics: cycle time, flow efficiency, lead time of initiative, PDLC compression, dependency reduction, rework rate, team satisfaction, and AI effectiveness.
- Build dashboards that provide leadership visibility and lead informed decision-making.
- Analyze performance data to identify trends, patterns, and areas for improvement.
- Use data to facilitate conversations and coach pods - not just track output.
Stakeholder Management
- Partner with Engineering and Product leadership at sub-domain level.
- Represent delivery health and risks in leadership forums.
- Build trusted relationships that allow fast decision-making.
- Communicate delivery performance to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Commercial Awareness
- Understand the commercial context of the sub-domain.
- Connect delivery decisions to revenue, cost, and customer impact.
- Support prioritization trade-offs with a business lens.
Capacity Planning
- Forecast capacity across pods based on team composition, skills mix, and upcoming demand.
- Identify resourcing gaps and support hiring/allocation decisions.
- Balance workload across pods to prevent burnout and underutilization.
- Support realistic planning by ensuring pods have a clear understanding of available capacity.
Risk & Dependency Management
- Manage risks through regular assessment and execution of controls.
- Ensure cross-pod dependencies are visible, tracked, and managed.
- Track dependency cost and lead mitigations such as contract-first development and feature flags.
- Support issue escalations, ensuring intervention by the dependency escalation protocol.
Coach & Capability Development
- Provide hands-on coaching at pod level.
- Build capability in workflow management, flow thinking, estimation, planning, and data-led decision-making.
- Support teams in understanding and improving their own performance.
- Strengthen a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
Outcome & Value Focus
- Align delivery to always ensure outcomes and value.
- Help teams understand the why behind their work and how their outputs contribute to value.
- Challenge work that does not link to outcomes.
- Support measurement of delivery against OKRs and value indicators.
Centre of Excellence (CoE) Contribution
- Be an active contributor to the CoE.
- Share best practices, delivery insights, and improvement opportunities from pods.
- Support adoption of standards, playbooks, and tools.
- Help evolve delivery practices based on experience.

Requirements

Core Skills

AI
Agile
Capacity Planning
Data-driven Decision-Making
Flow-based Delivery Approaches
Kanban
Lean
OKR Strategy
Problem Solving
Risk Management

Secondary Skills

AI Tooling
Change Management
Continuous Delivery
Cross-functional Versatility
Customer Impact
Demand Forecasting
Engineering
Flow Thinking
Forecasting
Gaming Industry
Intelligent Analytics
Knowledge Sharing
Leadership
Lean Principles
Marketing
Measurement
OKRs
Performance Metrics
Product Sense
Regulated Industry
Resource Optimisation
Risk Assessment
Scrum
Stakeholder Engagement
Systems Thinking

We Offer

Annual salary from €99,700
A regular bonus and great pension.
€136 per month food vouchers.
25 days annual leave plus local public holidays.
Extra paid leave, including wellbeing, development, and life-event days.
Life assurance and Income Protection.
Private healthcare and wellbeing support.
A stake in our success through our ShareSave scheme.
Special offers / reductions: pharmacy, Magenta, Erste Bank.

About the Company

There's nothing like a career at Entain. We're a leading, global sports betting and gaming company and we're upping the excitement and increasing player safety. We're a FTSE company with iconic brands including Ladbrokes, Coral, BetMGM, Eurobet, and bwin, and we have an energy that drives us to perform at the height of our potential. Whether you're an engineer, marketer, or retail specialist, a career here is a complete game changer.

Additional Information

Equal Opportunities

If you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us and we'll support you.

We're committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and able to be themselves.

We're an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone and we do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender or gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marriage/civil partnership, or any other basis.

We comply with all applicable recruitment regulations and employment laws in the jurisdictions where we operate, ensuring ethical and compliant hiring practices globally.

Job Location

Location: Austria

Work Location Type: On-site

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