Principal Delivery Lead

Job Description

About Blexr

We’ve been around since 2015 and have had a lot of success in that time, along with a few useful failures. Now we’re writing the next chapter in our story. Our strategy is to build some of the best products in the iGaming industry, innovating and creating experiences to move the industry forward and be the champion of a better game.

We want to do that by hiring amazing talent, like you, who will take us to the next level, building and creating a company and products that we are proud of. Expanding our horizons, learning and growing and reaching that next step in our journey together. It’s important to us because if our people don’t grow, then neither will Blexr.

Blexr’s culture has 4 core values that help guide us on our journey: No Limits, Eyes on the prize, Stay True and Better Together. Each one brought to life from within the company and used every day to guide our decisions and actions.

If this sounds good to you, then we want to talk to you. We want to work with incredible people that want to do incredible things and we are certain that your career will be Better with Blexr.

Salary band depending on experience;

UK - £90,000-£105,000

EU - €72,000-€84,000

About the role

The Principal Delivery Lead is a critical role, working with a mix of disciplines at Tribe leadership level to help bring about change and enable others to make great things happen.

You’ll be working as part of a cross-functional team that is made up of everyone you need to deliver end to end web and mobile experiences which reach millions of users globally. You’ll also contribute to large initiatives which impact the business at an operational level, interacting with people at the start of their careers and those at C-Level.

As a Principal Delivery Lead, your responsibility is to enable and lead those around you through great facilitation, servant leadership and implementing the right behaviours and frameworks to ensure a high performance and capable team. You’ll lead activities across a Tribe featuring multiple squads and you’ll work closely with other leaders to deliver meaningful experiences to our users in a predictable, consistent and flexible way.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and deliver complex cross-functional initiatives across the business, with an immediate focus on delivering new infrastructure and CMS for your Tribe’s products while maturing delivery processes and framework.
• Accountable for high-level planning and alignment across one of our Tribes, using data-based forecasting and reporting, identifying and mitigating high-level risks, dependencies, and blockers.
• Build trusting relationships and communicate fearlessly across all levels of the business to facilitate aligned delivery plans and roadmaps to meet stakeholder and user needs.
• Hold the context and accountability within your Tribe, ensuring those around you are focused, tenacious, flexible, adaptable with solving complex challenges while maintaining or increasing pace.
• Responsible for bringing the Tribe together, ensuring alignment from Squad level, Tribe leadership to the Senior Leadership Team while bringing confidence to the ‘how’ & ‘when’.
• Accountable for delivery quality across the Tribe, including the pace, consistency, predictability, impact while ensuring continuous improvement.
• Manage, coach, empower and grow a team of Delivery Leads to achieve their best.
• Lead with empathy, encourage and champion Blexr values and behaviours, being seen to incorporate these into your and others work.

About you

• Comfortable within scale-up environments or you have experienced environments undergoing transformation. You embrace ambiguity and intuitively bring others to tangible outcomes and impact at pace.
• Experience managing, optimising P&L/budgets >€10M, including headcount planning and forecasting.
• Extensive experience as a practitioner of agile, lean and others. You call on a wealth of experience using established frameworks and have the ability to adapt them to meet business and initiative needs. You can create or tailor new ways of working and continually innovate.
• Extensive experience in leading and delivering complex x-functional initiatives, digital products from inception to delivery.
• Extensive experience in challenging existing organisational processes, identifying opportunities, gaps, challenges and the ability to simplify complex processes or problems into outcomes and impact.
• Exceptional with communication and storytelling is key, being able to identify and work through opportunities and challenges that come your way, bringing all levels of the business and different audiences with you.
• Significant experience in building high performance teams, managing and cultivating an exceptional Delivery team.
• Analytical and have problem-solving experience in ambiguous fast paced environments, and use delivery metrics to make informed decisions.
• You proactively act quickly on mitigating blockers, challenges and know when to balance consensus and utilise different decision making skills to seek value and impact at pace.
• You understand team psychology and have great mediation skills. You’re able to coach the business on conflict resolution and team dynamics.

Benefits working at Blexr

• Company pension contributions up to 10%*
• 25 Days Annual Leave + Your Birthday + 2 Additional Days + Public Holidays
• Budget for pursuing your passions & hobbies*
• Access to mental health support
• Life Insurance
• Health insurance for your and option for your family
• Personal Gym & Wellbeing Budget*
• Personal Training and development Budget*
• Home-working set up budget*
• Remote first with option for remote working space
• Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of service

We love all people, from all walks of life. This means Blexr is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to people of every race, religion or belief and ethnic origin, regardless of age, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We don’t care where you’re from or who you love, we just want you to do your best work with us, so that together we can make things #betterwithblexr

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