Technical Portfolio Manager

Location: Cambridge, UK – This position offers flexible working options, including predominantly remote work. Applicants should be based (or willing to relocate) within a comfortable commuting distance of our office to attend onsite as required.

This is a 18 months fixed term contract.

Want to sit at the intersection of tech, data, and strategy,  where your clarity directly shapes what gets funded and shipped?

Reporting to the Associate Director of Strategic Portfolio Management, you’ll own the day-to-day delivery oversight of Jagex’s technical and data initiatives. You’ll keep our portfolio view accurate and current, giving leaders clear visibility of delivery health, dependencies, risks and commercial impact enabling prioritisation to be based on reality. Sitting between technical execution and commercial strategy, you’ll help unblock complex programmes, surface trade-offs, and keep our highest-value work moving with confidence and transparency.

What you’ll be doing:

• Own Jagex’s technical & data portfolio view, keeping timelines, milestones, dependencies and ownership accurate so leaders can prioritise with confidence.
• Align commercial, Technology and Data plans, ensuring sequencing and resourcing make sense so we deliver the highest-impact outcomes first.
• Bring structure to priority technical initiatives, creating clarity and coordination so delivery stays focused, paced, and outcome-driven.
• Spot what’s blocked or drifting early and intervene fast, surfacing options and trade-offs so decisions get made and momentum returns.
• Proactively manage cross-portfolio risks and dependencies, reducing surprises so teams can execute without constant firefighting.
• Provide a single, trusted view of delivery health, translating technical progress into business and financial outcomes for exec and board forums.
• Facilitate collaboration and clarify ownership across teams, closing data gaps so everyone is working from the same reality.
• Evolve our portfolio practices and tools, improving transparency and governance so delivery confidence increases quarter after quarter.

What we’re looking for: 

• Proven experience in a technology, data, or programme portfolio function at senior stakeholder level.
• Demonstrable understanding of complex technology/data delivery, including cross-team dependencies and delivery constraints.
• Strong analytical track record, producing accurate portfolio data and decision-ready insight on health, risk, and impact.
• Proven ability to translate technical detail into business outcomes, including trade-offs and financial implications.
• Experience across Agile, waterfall and hybrid delivery frameworks.
• Demonstrable experience producing exec/board-level reporting for governance and prioritisation.
• Working knowledge of Jira, Confluence and Airtable (or equivalent).
• eCommerce programme exposure; experience in gaming, SaaS, or digital environments is a strong bonus.

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
• Discretionary annual performance bonus.
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
• Life Insurance.
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
• Flexible working hours.
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

About Jagex

We are Jagex: The RuneScape Company. Home to one of gaming’s most enduring success stories. We create deep, community-powered games with worlds that evolve, inspire, and endure. Our flagship MMORPG franchise, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts, inspiring generations of players across PC and mobile for 25 years.

As we begin our 26th year, we are accelerating our strategy to expand RuneScape into a broader ecosystem of forever games and connected experiences, grounded in a renewed commitment to integrity and fair play. This includes the reduction of monetisation mechanics, as well as the launch of RuneScape: DragonWilds into Steam Early Access in 2025, representing a major step in building a multi-genre future for the RuneScape universe. We remain focused on building enduring worlds, empowering player-led innovation, and laying the foundations for the boldest era in RuneScape’s history. For more information, visit www.jagex.com.

Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, we are home to passionate creators, storytellers, engineers, and even a few dreamers, all united by a single mission to shape the future of online worlds and empower players to make them their own. We’re looking for people to join us who share our ambitions and values. We foster an inclusive workplace built on trust, autonomy, and a shared passion for creating experiences that inspire our communities.

Our values guide everything we do: We Embrace Fellowship by collaborating and sharing openly. We Hone our Craft by always learning and improving; We Honour our Vows by being honest and transparent; We are our Customers’ Heroes by striving to understand our team & player needs, and We Seize The Day by making the most of every opportunity.

Join us. The next era of RuneScape and the next chapter of Jagex: The RuneScape Company starts now.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities and creating an environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, and we recruit, develop, and promote based on merit and ability.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the recruitment process, please let us know when you’re invited to interview.