We are seeking an experienced Digital Portfolio Lead to oversee a strategic digital product portfolio in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This techno-functional leadership role is responsible for driving end-to-end portfolio delivery, aligning business objectives with technology execution, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality digital products and services. The successful candidate will work closely with senior stakeholders, provide strategic direction across multiple workstreams, and ensure effective governance, delivery excellence, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Lead the overall strategy, governance, planning, and delivery of an assigned product portfolio, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Manage and coordinate cross-functional teams across product management, business analysis, architecture, engineering, QA, UX, DevOps, and production support.
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and act as the primary point of contact for portfolio priorities, progress, risks, and decision-making.
- Translate business priorities into delivery roadmaps, milestones, and actionable outcomes.
- Participate in solution and architecture discussions to ensure technical solutions align with business and product objectives.
- Oversee end-to-end delivery from discovery and design through development, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Establish portfolio governance, reporting, risk management, dependency management, and resource planning.
- Monitor delivery performance, quality, timelines, and overall portfolio outcomes while driving continuous improvement.
- Mentor delivery managers, product owners, technical leads, and other key team members.
- Ensure compliance with architecture, security, quality, governance, documentation, and production readiness standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of experience in technology delivery, digital transformation, product management, consulting, or program management.
- At least 5+ years of experience leading complex digital programs, product portfolios, or multiple cross-functional delivery teams.
- Proven experience delivering large-scale digital transformation initiatives within government or enterprise environments.
- Strong techno-functional expertise with the ability to bridge business needs and technical delivery.
- Experience managing multiple digital products, Agile teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of digital platforms, solution architecture, enterprise integrations, APIs, cloud technologies, cybersecurity, DevOps, and quality assurance.
- Strong portfolio governance, delivery planning, risk management, and executive stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving abilities.
- Professional proficiency in English; Arabic language skills are an advantage.
- Previous experience working within the public sector or large enterprise organizations is preferred.
- Saudi Nationals are encouraged to apply.
