Senior Data Project Manager

BetMGM•Hybrid, NJ

2d•$117,100 - $156,200•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Data Project Manager sets direction across multiple Data & BI Operations products, operational domains, and portfolios. The role leads ambiguous, cross-cutting initiatives, establishes scalable standards and operating models, and improves the effectiveness of teams and partners without direct people-management responsibility. It requires enterprise-level perspective and sustained ownership across complex, interdependent work, anticipating business, technical, operational, regulatory, and organizational impacts while shaping priorities and major trade-offs with senior and executive stakeholders across IT, Gaming, Sports, Operations, Risk, Finance, and other business domains. Part of the Data & BI Operations organization, the role sets delivery and operational excellence standards across reporting, dashboards, analytics, predictive modelling, semantic and analytical data products, data warehouses, data platforms, governance, and related capabilities. It shapes portfolio governance and long-term strategy, establishes frameworks and controls, influences executive decisions, manages interdependent work and external partners, and leads organizational change across assigned portfolios. The role requires a high school diploma or equivalent. A bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience is preferred, along with at least eight years of progressive experience leading complex technical programs, portfolios, operations, analytics, or similar functions across business and technical domains. Relevant gaming, sports, regulated-industry, or comparable experience is a plus. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without immigration sponsorship. Applicable employees must obtain and maintain required gaming licenses and comply with BetMGM’s responsible gambling policies.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent required.
At least 8 years of progressive experience leading complex technical programs, portfolios, operations, analytics, or a similar function across multiple business and technical domains.
Demonstrated success setting direction across multiple products, operational domains, or portfolios and resolving ambiguous, cross-cutting problems.
Proven experience designing and implementing delivery frameworks, governance models, service levels, controls, or operating models adopted across multiple teams.
Experience influencing executive leaders, shaping investment and prioritization decisions, and driving organizational change without direct reporting authority.
Exceptional written, verbal, storytelling, and executive presentation skills, including the ability to simplify complex Data & BI topics.
Deep experience with data and analytics capabilities such as dashboards, predictive modelling, semantic or analytical data products, data warehouses, data platforms, governance, and automation.
Strong analytical judgment and experience defining measurement frameworks, data standards, and success measures for consequential decisions.
Demonstrated success leading large-scale data, analytics, platform modernization, governance, or transformation portfolios spanning multiple functional areas, with accountability for scope, dependencies, capacity, timelines, quality, risk, and value.
Experience shaping vendor or partner strategy and holding external parties accountable for complex commercial or service commitments.
Ability to lead change, clarify ownership and decision rights, mentor others informally, and raise delivery standards across an organization.
Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without immigration-related employment authorization sponsorship.
Applicable employees must obtain and maintain required gaming licenses; candidates must comply with and support BetMGM’s responsible gambling policies, procedures, and initiatives.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
Relevant gaming, sports, regulated-industry, or comparable industry experience.

Responsibilities

Own portfolio governance across multiple Data & BI Operations products and domains, aligning investment recommendations, prioritization, dependencies, capacity, and resources with organizational strategy and measurable business outcomes.
Frame complex, cross-cutting business and technical problems and ensure teams address the right problem, downstream impacts, and edge cases.
Create and institutionalize discovery, requirements, prioritization, delivery, governance, documentation, and intake standards for Data & BI Operations and partner teams.
Design scalable frameworks, operating models, controls, service levels, runbooks, quality practices, and ways of working.
Manage interdependent work across multiple areas while balancing scope, timelines, capacity, quality, risk, and business value.
Anticipate and remove systemic delivery issues, clarify ownership and decision rights, and develop mitigation strategies for material cross-team dependencies.
Set measurement frameworks and data standards, apply analytical judgment to consequential decisions, and challenge metrics that do not demonstrate meaningful value.
Influence executive decisions through data-driven recommendations, portfolio insights, and business cases that shape priorities, investments, and trade-offs.
Explain complex Data & BI topics to senior leaders and cross-functional teams, and manage the narrative in high-impact discussions and governance forums.
Shape vendor and partner strategy, performance expectations, and major commercial or service discussions; hold external parties accountable for outcomes and commitments.
Establish long-term Data & BI Operations strategy and portfolio roadmaps for investment, capability development, platform modernization, governance, automation, and operating-model evolution.
Ensure work aligns with company and Data & BI Operations priorities, compliance obligations, regulatory expectations, and appropriate controls.
Lead organizational change within assigned portfolios, providing clarity during uncertainty and bringing stakeholders and delivery teams along with new ways of working.
Produce and present executive communications, decision materials, portfolio updates, and governance packs that articulate progress, value, choices, risks, and required actions.
Coach project managers, establish reusable frameworks and delivery standards, and enable consistent execution across teams and portfolios without direct authority.
Promote inclusive collaboration, shared decision-making, fair treatment, and mutual accountability.