Portfolio Lead

The Portfolio Lead is accountable for delivery performance across a sub-domain of four to six pods spanning Engineering, Quality and Product. The role leads the flow of value from idea to production, ensuring pods deliver with pace, predictability and understanding of outcomes. It combines hands-on delivery leadership with AI-augmented ways of working and data-driven decision-making, adapting approaches to each pod's context rather than prescribing a single framework.

• Lead delivery performance across a sub-domain of four to six pods, communicate delivery health, risks and performance to leadership, ensure pods operate as self-organising units delivering value outcomes, and support pod leads with coaching, facilitation and conflict resolution.
• Facilitate cross-pod agreement on priorities, dependencies and shared goals
• Promote communication, collaboration and knowledge sharing between pods
• Act as an escalation point for cross-pod blockers and systemic impediments using root cause analysis, systems thinking and structured techniques
• And identify patterns indicating deeper organisational or process issues.
• Champion AI agent adoption across pods, including coding agents, test generation, story creation, board health and deployment automation
• Identify and apply AI opportunities to reduce toil, accelerate delivery, improve decision-making and automate reporting
• And track and demonstrate the impact of AI on delivery performance.
• Monitor and improve delivery flow using Kanban and lean principles, including lead time, cycle time, WIP and throughput
• Ensure WIP limits are respected
• Surface ageing items through Board Walks
• Identify bottlenecks, ageing work and sources of delay across pods
• Improve through regular assessment and experimentation
• And support teams in breaking down work into deliverable, value-driven increments.
• Support and evolve the agile operating model for a pod-based environment focused on pace rather than ceremony, adapting Kanban, flow-based and lean approaches to each pod's needs while ensuring consistency of practice without being prescriptive

• 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 or pods simultaneously at scale.
• Strong understanding of AI tooling and its application to software delivery, including coding assistants, automation and intelligent analytics.
• Experience in capacity planning, demand forecasting and resource optimisation across multiple teams.
• Ability to use data to solve complex problems and to interpret and communicate complex data sets clearly.
• Previous experience of organisational transformation and change management.
• Good knowledge of Objectives and Key Results (OKR) strategy.
• Demonstrates the Maker Dimensions competencies: AI fluency; agency and accountability; systems thinking; stakeholder engagement; improving performance; cross-functional versatility; product sense; and capability building.
• Versatile, curious and able to operate with autonomy in a high-trust environment.

• Experience in a regulated industry such as gaming, fintech or similar is desirable.

• A great compensation package and support to make an impact.
• Safe home pickup and home drop.
• A regular bonus and great pension.
• 24 days annual leave.
• Extra paid leave, including wellbeing and development days.
• Life assurance and Income Protection.
• Private healthcare and wellbeing support.
• INR 3,000 per month Communication allowance.
• Up to INR 16,000 per year in Crèche expenses for children under 3.