Business Platforms Director

We are on a mission to pioneer the world’s next era of play. As we grow across Europe and Latin America, we’re building The Playstack - the technology powering the next generation of sports, gaming, and fan experiences. Join us, and help make it the most widely used platform in the world! From operations, to marketing, to product, we are looking for talented people who will shape how millions of customers play, watch, and connect every day.

Senior Director of Business Platforms
We are looking for a Senior Director of Business Platforms to lead the Business Products tribe within Enterprise Engineering, reporting to the CIO. You will own the operating model that turns a live book of around 200 business jobs-to-be-done into one shipped roadmap, with real line authority over the tribe and its squads. This is a highly visible role, partnering closely with transformation and platform leadership to shape how the wider business delivers change.The tribe is around 30 people today, organised as forward-deployed engineering squads aligned to business functions rather than applications, and the scope is expected to grow.Locations: Cluj, Bucharest, Zagreb or Madrid.

What the role involves
Business Products Lead and develop the forward-deployed engineering (FDE) squads and their domain managers, with full people accountability for hiring, development, compensation and promotion through standard calibration Design and staff the squad model around functional persona groupings rather than applications   Operating model Own the end-to-end operating model: intake, persona grouping, prioritisation and delivery   Define and publish the tribe's headline delivery metric, and hold the tribe to it     Transformation delivery Own the "how" of transformation delivery, working alongside the Group Transformation lead's "why and what" across business transformation and AI acceleration   Platform interface Manage platform intake and dependencies against the platform and data roadmaps, negotiating capability by capability as a peer of platform leadership     Vendor operations Oversee vendor operations within the established procurement process     What we are looking for

• Demonstrated ownership of both Workday and Anaplan, either at roadmap or programme level or by leading the teams responsible for implementing, integrating and evolving them, with a clear grasp of how they sit in the wider enterprise landscape. This is an ownership-level requirement rather than user-level familiarity.

 

• Experience building or running an internal platform or FDE organisation at product-company scale, with a strong grasp of reusable capabilities, self-service and SLOs

 

• Technical depth to lead and challenge architecture deep dives, not simply sponsor them