Agile Delivery Manager / Scrum Lead
Must Have Skills
Good to Have Skills
- Communication & Collaboration (Expert)
Job Description
The Agile Delivery Manager / Scrum Lead will be responsible for driving end-to-end product delivery ensuring timely high‑quality outcomes aligned with the product roadmap while fostering agility, collaboration and continuous improvement within teams.
Key Responsibilities
Drive End-to-End Product Delivery
- Oversee delivery of product increments from planning to release.
- Ensure timely and high‑quality delivery of initiatives, epics and features in alignment with the product roadmap.
- Facilitate governance and guide planning sessions and workshops for product discovery or initiation.
- Support product teams in prioritization and estimation of product features using techniques such as RICE and KANO.
- Manage dependencies across squads to ensure smooth and timely progress on product deliverables.
Facilitate Release Planning and Management
- Collaborate with Product Owners and chapter leads to plan and execute product releases.
- Support pre‑ and post‑release activities including L2 support alignment.
- Strengthen process agility and optimize tools to reduce time to market and enable faster deployments to production.
- Ensure frequent releases for continuous customer feedback and iteration.
- Maintain quality standards by tracking key defect metrics such as leakage and defect aging.
Facilitate Risk Management
- Identify and mitigate risks impacting product delivery proactively.
- Address impediments and elevate issues to stakeholders as required.
Metrics and Reporting
- Track and report on key metrics and OKRs including velocity, lead time, cycle time and predictability.
- Use data‑driven insights to identify bottlenecks and improvement areas.
- Collaborate with Product Owners to review product performance metrics such as customer satisfaction, adoption and product KPIs.
- Ensure alignment of product development efforts with desired business outcomes.
- Create dashboards and reports to provide clear visibility into product progress for stakeholders and leadership.
Coach on Agile Processes
- Guide teams in adopting Agile practices such as Scrum, Kanban or hybrid models suited to the product context.
- Coach cross‑functional teams and stakeholders to embed Agile mindsets that drive adaptability, autonomy and innovation.
- Act as a catalyst for organizational change co‑creating improved ways of working.
- Ensure Agile ceremonies (daily scrums, retrospectives, planning sessions) are effective and value‑driven.
- Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and sprint reviews fostering a culture of inspect and adapt and fail‑fast learning.
Support Team Enablement
- Foster a psychologically safe environment for open communication and ownership.
- Promote accountability, collaboration and self‑organization within teams.
- Encourage innovation, experimentation and continuous learning.
Partner with Product Owners
- Ensure delivery aligns with product vision and business strategy.
- Define and track OKRs for successful completion.
- Participate in backlog prioritization to maximize business value and strategic impact.
- Identify stakeholders and manage expectations actively.
Remote Work
Yes
Employment Type
Full‑time