The OpportunityWe are seeking an experienced and strategic Senior Portfolio Manager to join our PMO team. In this high-impact role, you will be a trusted partner to the P&L business owner, overseeing digital initiatives across the portfolio and ensuring programs are aligned with strategic business outcomes. Your primary mission is to drive execution excellence, improve operational visibility, and enable business units to achieve their financial and customer success goals. You will also play a key role in shaping portfolio governance frameworks, making strategic decisions under ambiguity, and operating across organizational boundaries to build alignment and drive outcomes across the broader organization.
On a day-to-day basis, you will engage with the business unit leaders to understand evolving priorities, assess new initiatives for strategic fit, and facilitate decision-making around investment and resourcing. You will monitor the health of the portfolio, identify interdependencies, and delivery risks. You will collaborate closely with program and project managers to ensure delivery alignment, and you will contribute to ongoing portfolio governance activities and performance reporting.
To succeed in this role, you will need strong business acumen, a strategic mindset, the ability to make sound decisions under ambiguity, and the skill to influence and build coalitions across a wide network of stakeholders at all levels of the organization. You should be comfortable balancing long-term vision with near-term execution, and adept at working across organizational boundaries in cross-functional, matrixed environments, including alignment across BetMGM, Entain, and MGM where applicable
Responsibilities Portfolio Management - Serve as a trusted advisor and partner to the business P&L owner; understand strategic objectives and ensure portfolio alignment with financial and operational goals.
- Manage the portfolio roadmap; prioritize initiatives based on business value/financial outcomes, dependencies, and resource availability including portfolio-level investment and trade-off decisions such as what to accelerate, pause, or retire.
- Define and own portfolio success metrics and measurement frameworks, ensuring clear line-of-sight from initiative-level delivery to business unit financial and customer outcomes.
- Provide regular portfolio reporting, including health status, risk mitigation, and benefits realization metrics to executive stakeholders.
- Provide guidance on the design of project business cases and charters to ensure initiatives are strategically grounded before execution.
Program Leadership & Delivery - Lead business unit specific programs from concept through execution, ensuring scope, timeline and budget targets are met.
- Define and evolve the portfolio governance framework and facilitate decision making, and escalations with a data-driven, business-focused mindset.
- Anticipate risks and proactively develop mitigation strategies to keep programs on track.
- Make sense of complex and sometimes contradictory information to drive timely decisions, recognizing when an 80% solution will suffice.
- Lead tough conversations with stakeholders, giving others an outlet to discuss concerns and navigate uncertainty even without having all the answers.
Stakeholder Engagement - Serve as a strategic liaison between business stakeholders, product management, engineering, operations, and finance teams.
- Support business owners in defining KPIs, success criteria, and ROI for major initiatives.
- Collaborate cohesively with fellow project managers to ensure cross-functional activations and business programs are aligned and reported holistically, providing a unified view of progress to leadership.
- Act as a trusted resource and advisor across a wide network of colleagues with diverse perspectives, pursuing mutually beneficial strategies.
- Use communications strategically to influence, gain buy-in, build coalitions, and motivate cross-functional teams to action.
- Actively seek and act on feedback from peers, stakeholders, and leadership, modeling a growth mindset and enabling a culture of continuous improvement.
Operational Excellence - Define and evolve PMO frameworks, governance models, and operating standards, setting the standard for speed, quality, and rigor across program management practices.
- Ensure alignment between PMO standards and business specific needs.
- Build and promote team learning systems, allocating time for cross-sharing of expertise and practicing new skills across teams.
What You Bring to the Team At BetMGM, we understand that each card in the deck plays a unique role in any given hand. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you've got what it takes, we encourage you to apply for this role.
- 7+ years of experience in program or portfolio management in a digital or technology driven environment.
- Proven ability to influence without authority, negotiate across senior stakeholder groups and lead through change in a matrixed organization.
- Strong leadership, diplomacy, and motivational skills with experience leading across business and technology teams.
- Deep understanding of change management principles and their application in complex environments.
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to strategically influence, build coalitions, and motivate action across executive and cross-functional audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to operate in a fast-paced environment and manage shifting priorities with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity, synthesize complex or contradictory information, and apply strategic judgment.
- Demonstrated ability to connect portfolio decisions to financial outcomes, experience operating across enterprise or multi-entity organizational boundaries, with the ability to navigate governance and alignment across parent companies and joint ventures.
- Collaborative and inclusive mindset with the ability to work effectively across diverse teams.
- Deep experience with PMO functions, governance models, and portfolio management tools and frameworks, including designing governance structures and business cases.
- Experience in iGaming, sports betting, or a related industry preferred with working knowledge of business model mechanics (e.g., NGR/GGR, margins, payback periods).
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA or equivalent experience is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to coach and develop others, foster team learning, and build cross-functional collaboration systems.
- Proven ability to remain calm, confident, and productive under ambiguity, fostering perseverance and a positive outlook across teams.
Applicants must possess legal authorization to work for our company in the U.S. without the need for immigration sponsorship. At this time, this role is not eligible for immigration-related employment authorization sponsorship including H-1B, O-1, E-3, TN, OPT, etc.
CompensationThe pay range for this position is as follows:
133,600.00--178,100.00
Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for participation in a performance-based bonus plan.
Gaming Compliance & Licensing Requirements As an online gaming company, BetMGM is required to comply with state gaming regulations which includes licensing obligations. Applicable employees must be licensed by at least one jurisdictional agency, although certain positions require licensing by multiple agencies. Failure to become licensed or maintain licensure with each agency as required for the role may result in termination of employment. Please note that the licensing process includes comprehensive background checks which may include a review of criminal records, financial history, and personal background verification.
In addition, candidates must comply with and support BetMGM's responsible gambling policies, procedures, and initiatives.
This job description is not an exclusive or exhaustive list of duties a person in this position may be asked to perform from time to time.
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