AI-Native Delivery Director | Portfolio Leader

10Pearls, LLC; Islamabad; On-site; PKR 33,213,000 - 66,427,000; Full time

Job summary

10Pearls, LLC is seeking a Delivery Director to lead the health, growth, and successful delivery of a portfolio of client engagements. This senior role integrates delivery, product, and engineering leadership to drive value and ensure strong client outcomes.

The role requires extensive experience in leading large cross-functional teams, managing budgets and resources, and driving accountability across delivery programs. It emphasizes AI-native delivery and strategic portfolio expansion.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in software delivery, engineering, product, or technology leadership roles.
• Proven experience managing multiple client engagements, programs, or portfolios.
• Demonstrated success leading large cross-functional teams and developing senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery, operational, and commercial success of a portfolio of client engagements.
• Drive portfolio health by ensuring quality, predictability, customer satisfaction, and business outcomes.
• Manage cross-engagement priorities, resource allocation, and dependency management.
• Establish operating rhythms and governance mechanisms to support high-performing delivery teams.
• Coach, mentor, and develop Engagement Leads.
• Build leadership capability and support succession planning across the delivery organization.
• Drive talent management, staffing strategies, performance management, and technical hiring decisions.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and excellence.
• Translate organizational and regional strategy into portfolio execution plans.
• Build and maintain executive-level client and stakeholder relationships.
• Identify opportunities for account growth, operational improvements, and increased business value.
• Partner with leadership teams on strategic initiatives and portfolio expansion opportunities.
• Establish and continuously improve delivery standards, governance frameworks, and operational processes.
• Promote engineering excellence, quality assurance, scalability, and maintainability across engagements.
• Use delivery metrics and data-driven insights to improve predictability and performance.
• Balance delivery speed, quality, technical debt, and customer expectations.
• Proactively identify and mitigate delivery, technical, commercial, and organizational risks.
• Lead intervention efforts for at-risk engagements and major escalations.
• Ensure effective governance, reviews, controls, and portfolio visibility.
• Provide timely escalation, recovery plans, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership.
• Drive AI adoption across delivery, engineering, and operational workflows.
• Leverage AI for portfolio reporting, forecasting, resource planning, and decision-making.
• Promote automation, workflow optimization, and agentic tooling across engagements.
• Establish governance practices for secure, responsible, and effective AI usage.
• Measure and enhance the business impact of AI-enabled delivery practices.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Portfolio leadership

Executive communication

Agile methodologies

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Resource planning

Leadership development

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS/SE/IT/Business)

Tools

AI tools & platforms

Job description

10Pearls, LLC is seeking a Delivery Director to lead the health, growth, and successful delivery of a portfolio of client engagements. This senior role integrates delivery, product, and engineering leadership to drive value and ensure strong client outcomes.

The role requires extensive experience in leading large cross-functional teams, managing budgets and resources, and driving accountability across delivery programs. It emphasizes AI-native delivery and strategic portfolio expansion.