Senior Delivery Manager

Stan.; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks paid parental leave

Employee Exclusives program

Digital newspaper subscription

Annual Stan subscription voucher

Job summary

Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company. We are seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to drive strategic agile practices and improve delivery across teams and portfolios.

You will partner with Product and Engineering leads, map integration points, and remove blockers to accelerate release cycles while maintaining high quality and stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• Experience guiding software delivery in complex digital products.
• Ability to lead agile practices across teams and portfolios.
• Experience with Lean, Scrum and Kanban in fast-moving engineering cultures.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Engineering to maintain backlogs and capacity.
• Map integration points across front-end, back-end, analytics and vendor systems.
• Blockers, bottlenecks and scope inflation elimination to protect timelines.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies and multi-team planning for alignment.
• Promote a people-first culture and self-organising squads.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Agile coaching

Lean/Scrum/Kanban

Bridge tech/business

Software delivery

Education

CS/SAFe/PSM/CSM/PMI-ACP certs

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Release management tools

Job description

Company Description

Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company. Working at Nine, you’ll have access to a unique range of experiences and opportunities, helping drive the success of the country’s most trusted television, radio, digital and publishing brands.

Our content reaches almost every Australian - meaning what we do has real impact. We bring people together, celebrate the big moments, and capture the everyday ones.

Some of our most beloved brands have been part of Australian life for generations, and others - new on the scene - have already found their place firmly in our lives. We’re evolving and we need people like you to bring new ideas, innovate and make your mark.

Job Description

The Senior Delivery Manager drives strategic agile practices and continuous improvement at both the team and portfolio levels. This role involves evaluating and challenging existing organisational practices, identifying capability gaps, and providing thought leadership on agile applications. Key responsibilities include ensuring transparent communication of strategic outcomes, fostering a culture of rapid iteration, and accelerating the delivery of results.

What you’ll do:

• Partner with Product and Engineering leads to maintaining well structured backlogs, evaluating capacity trade-offs during priority changes to protect engineers from fatigue and context-switching.
• Map and align integration points across front end app teams, core backend services, analytics pipelines, and third-party vendor systems.
• Proactively hunt down technical blockers, operational bottlenecks, and scope inflation and actively clear them before they derail target deployment dates.
• Facilitate key agile frameworks and cross-squad planning forums (including retrospectives, dependency mapping, and multi-team syncs) to ensure operational alignment.
• Instill a "people over process" mindset across squads, empowering teams to self-organise, eliminate internal friction, and build an open, honest, and vibrant culture of continuous learning.
• Manage our bi-weekly cross-stream release cycle, ensuring work items hit strict QA regression cutoff windows and satisfy strict app store submission schedules.
• Deliver clear, data-informed execution status to portfolio directors and leadership teams using automated dashboards, keeping communication high without adding reporting overhead for developers.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience guiding software delivery, or iteration leadership within complex digital product organisations.
• Direct experience managing concurrent deployments across mobile ecosystems, web apps, and TV platforms (Apple TV, Android TV, Samsung/LG).
• Deep practical experience applying Lean, Scrum and Kanban principles tailored to the actual needs of a fast-moving, high performing engineering culture.
• Proven ability to bridge technical and business discussions, translating complex engineering constraints into clear options for product leads, executives, and vendor contacts.

Desirable:

• Familiarity with A/B testing infrastructure, customer data platforms, or subscription business.
• Solid understanding of modern continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices, release branching strategies, and platform-level QA testing methodologies.
• Basic technical literacy around video playback engines, metadata feeds, recommendation logic, or content delivery workflows.
• Recognised industry qualifications (e.g., CSM, PSM, SAFe, PMI-ACP) that back up your practical execution experience.
• Experience leveraging AI to optimise delivery workflows, automate routine reporting, and enhance predictive forecasting for project timelines and resource allocation.

Additional Information

How we work

At Nine, our flexible work options vary by role and team. Depending on the position, this may include flexible hours, hybrid work, or part-time arrangements. We welcome discussing your flexibility needs during the hiring process - just ask the Talent Acquisition team.

Our employee benefits include:

• 18 weeks paid parental leave with no distinction between primary and secondary carers
• Access to ‘Employee Exclusives’ program - a way of getting closer to our incredible brands, offering unique experiences, behind-the-scenes access, and awesome perks.
• Digital newspaper subscription to our mastheads
• Annual gift voucher for Stan subscription
• More info at Nine Careers

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We’re committed to a safe, respectful and inclusive Nine. From day one, you’ll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, genders, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures as we recognise the importance and value of diverse perspectives. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please advise us when you apply.

Work rights: Please note to apply for this role you must already have the right to lawfully work and live in Australia.