Delivery Head

Position Overview :

Delivery Managers work to ensure the teams success in delivery, primarily by helping to identify and especially remove impediments impacting the teams ability to deliver.

A Delivery Manager supports multiple cross-functional product teams (squads), and serves as the Scrum Master for each of those product teams

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Constantly looking to identify impediments early, actively working to resolve those impediments, and escalates when needed.

• Management and tracking of cross team/squad dependencies.

• Management and tracking of all high-integrity commitments.

• Provides proactive visibility and effectively communicates delivery targets, commitments and progress.

• Works to minimize meetings and ceremonies, but when they are needed, they are well-run and efficient.

• Encourages a culture of team-driven decision making and commitment. Encourages team trust and facilitates team building events.

• Where appropriate, coaches the teams to improve collaboration and outcomes (coaching is the

primary responsibility of teams managers).

Must Have Skills :

• Overall with 15+years of experience with at least 10 years experience with SCRUM or other Agile variants with focus on eliminating waste, wait times and bringing efficiency in everything that is done..

• Good general understanding of how large scale software systems are designed, built, tested, deployed and into the hands of customers.

• Strong understanding of delivery and go-to-market methods and metrics.

• Good general understanding of the role of product managers, product designers, engineers, quality assurance, devops and product marketers

• At least 2 years of experience working in the engineering organization of a product company using common Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, XP)

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification

• Good knowledge of SVPGs (Silicon Valley Product Group) model of Continuous Discovery and Continuous Delivery way of doing projects.