Senior Portfolio Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New Jersey.

📋 Description

• Act as a trusted advisor and partner for the business P&L owner, ensuring the portfolio aligns with both financial and operational objectives.

• Oversee the portfolio roadmap and prioritize projects based on business value, financial results, dependencies, and available resources.

• Make decisions regarding portfolio investments and trade-offs, including determining what to accelerate, pause, or discontinue.

• Establish and maintain success metrics and measurement frameworks for the portfolio.

• Provide regular portfolio reports that include health status, risk mitigation strategies, and benefits realization for executive stakeholders.

• Guide the development of project business cases and charters.

• Lead business-unit-specific programs from inception to execution, ensuring adherence to scope, timelines, and budget constraints.

• Define and refine portfolio governance frameworks while facilitating data-driven decision-making and escalations.

• Anticipate potential risks and devise mitigation strategies.

• Act as a strategic liaison amongst business stakeholders, product management, engineering, operations, and finance teams.

• Assist business owners in defining KPIs, success criteria, and ROI for major initiatives.

• Collaborate with project managers to ensure alignment and comprehensive reporting of cross-functional activations and business programs.

• Influence stakeholders, secure buy-in, build coalitions, and inspire cross-functional teams.

• Define and develop PMO frameworks, governance models, and operating standards.

• Ensure PMO standards meet the specific needs of the business.

• Foster team learning systems and promote knowledge sharing across teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in program or portfolio management within a digital or technology-driven environment.

• Proven capability to influence without authority, negotiate with senior stakeholders, and lead through transformations in a matrixed organization.

• Strong leadership, diplomacy, and motivational abilities, with experience leading across business and technology teams.

• Comprehensive understanding of change management principles and their application in complex environments.

• Exceptional communication and storytelling abilities, with a knack for strategically influencing, building coalitions, and motivating action among executive and cross-functional audiences.

• Demonstrated success in fast-paced environments, adept at managing shifting priorities with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.

• Strong analytical skills, capable of navigating ambiguity, synthesizing complex or contradictory information, and applying strategic judgment.

• Proven ability to connect portfolio decisions to financial outcomes, with experience across enterprise or multi-entity organizational boundaries, and navigating governance and alignment among parent companies and joint ventures.

• Collaborative and inclusive approach, effective in working across diverse teams.

• Extensive experience with PMO functions, governance models, and portfolio management tools and frameworks, including designing governance structures and business cases.

• Preferred experience in iGaming, sports betting, or a related industry, with knowledge of business model mechanics (e.g., NGR/GGR, margins, payback periods).

• Bachelor's degree required.

• An MBA or equivalent experience is a plus.

• Proven ability to mentor and develop others, encourage team learning, and build cross-functional collaboration systems.

• Demonstrated capacity to remain calm, confident, and productive amid ambiguity, fostering resilience and a positive outlook across teams.

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without immigration sponsorship.

• Must adhere to applicable gaming licensing requirements, including comprehensive background checks when necessary.

• Must comply with and support BetMGM's responsible gambling policies, procedures, and initiatives.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability Insurance.

• 401(k) with company match.

• Pre-tax spending accounts, including health care FSA and commuter savings.

• Flexible paid time off.

• Professional development reimbursement and ongoing skills training opportunities.

• Employee resource groups.

• Swag, ticket giveaways, and more.

• Performance-based bonus plan.