Senior Manager Digital Products Portfolio Management

About the Role

Qiddiya is seeking a Senior Manager Digital Products Portfolio Management to support the Director, Product Management. This full-time role, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, focuses on managing Qiddiya's Corporate Marketing digital product portfolio, specifically in digital marketing, MarTech, customer experience, and connected digital platforms. The Senior Manager will provide direct product and portfolio support across various stages, from discovery to launch and performance tracking.

Role Context and Contribution

The Senior Manager is responsible for developing the necessary analysis and recommendations to support the Director's vision, investment decisions, and strategic direction. This involves hands-on engagement in roadmap and prioritization analysis, ensuring backlog readiness, coordinating delivery efforts, and aligning with stakeholders to achieve product objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Director in shaping product direction and roadmaps, assessing initiatives based on value, customer impact, urgency, effort, readiness, risk, dependencies, reuse, and strategic alignment.
• Translate agreed direction into MVP scope, sequencing, and trade-off recommendations.
• Lead structured discovery processes with business, users, data, and delivery teams to define problems, outcomes, journeys, use cases, capabilities, success measures, and clear requirements.
• Maintain backlogs, epics, stories, acceptance criteria, and release scope, ensuring clear hierarchy, ownership, decisions, documentation, and traceability across product tools.
• Coordinate product work from design through build, testing, launch, and optimization, collaborating with Delivery, UX/UI, Engineering, Data, Cybersecurity, and vendors to manage blockers and risks.
• Work with Architecture and Engineering to assess build, buy, reuse, and hybrid options, considering customer value, capability fit, integration, scalability, speed, cost, and reuse across products.
• Champion user-centric design, accessibility, localization, and content readiness, supporting KPI and measurement definition and ensuring analytics are integrated into requirements.
• Operate portfolio intake, stage-gate, reporting, and escalation processes under Director direction, maintaining visibility of ownership, scope, funding needs, dependencies, and approvals.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, business cases, resource planning, investment analysis, procurement inputs, RFP criteria, and vendor evaluation.
• Coordinate cybersecurity, privacy, data protection, accessibility, legal, brand, and quality requirements, including UAT, business and operational readiness, and analytics readiness before launch.

Experience and Qualifications

• Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in digital product management or portfolio management.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position located in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, contributing to Qiddiya's strategic digital initiatives.