Senior Program Delivery Manager New India

Litmos Limited; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Litmos Limited in Pune, India is seeking a Senior Program Delivery Manager to anchor the delivery across engineering teams, partner with HR on people operations, and run the Pune office as the hub for our global development workforce.

You will coordinate sprints, manage dependencies, and shape the SDLC evolution (Scrum, Shape Up) while collaborating with Technical Owners, Product Owners, and senior engineers across India, the US, the UK, and Australia.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in program management, delivery management, or engineering operations in a software product company.
• Experience coordinating delivery across 5+ concurrent engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery frameworks with practical improvement experience.
• Excellent English communication skills (written and verbal) across multiple time zones.
• Experience in distributed, multi-timezone engineering organizations.
• Experience partnering with HR on people operations or onboarding.
• Based in Pune (or willing to relocate).

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery cadence across engineering teams, tracking sprint commitments, velocity, cycle time, and commitment reliability.
• Facilitate cross-team dependency management and ensure shared resources are allocated effectively.
• Run program-level ceremonies including cross-team standups, delivery reviews, and quarterly planning coordination.
• Build and maintain delivery dashboards and reporting for engineering leadership.
• Serve as the senior on-the-ground leader in Pune, coordinating with Office Manager and HR on onboarding, retention, engagement, and hiring logistics.
• Act as escalation point for Pune-based staff on operational matters.
• Support SDLC evolution (Scrum, Shape Up) and champion AI-assisted development tools across teams.
• Own the onboarding playbook for new Pune-based engineers.
• Maintain structured communication rhythms across US, UK, and AU time zones.

Skills

Program management

Delivery coordination

Agile methodologies

English communication

Distributed teams

HR onboarding

Pune relocation

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

Are you looking for an opportunity to help solve one of today's biggest business challenges? AI is changing the pace of business, and organizations everywhere are struggling to help their workforce, partners, and customers keep up. At Litmos, we're building the Learning Acceleration Platform that helps organizations build human capability faster—and we're looking for people who are passionate about making a meaningful impact for customers while growing alongside a collaborative, people-first team.

Litmos is the Learning Acceleration Platform that helps organizations build capability faster, adapt at the speed business changes, and scale learning to anyone, anywhere. Combining an intuitive platform, AI-powered capabilities, trusted content, expert services, and a broad ecosystem of integrations, Litmos helps organizations accelerate workforce productivity, improve customer adoption and retention, enable high-performing partners, and reduce organizational risk through continuous learning.

Organizations such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Graco, Sabre, and Russell Mineral Equipment trust Litmos to accelerate learning across their workforce, partners, and customers. Today, more than 11K customers with 30 million learners across 150 countries and 37 languages use Litmos to build the capabilities their organizations need to succeed. Backed by Francisco Partners, one of the world's leading technology investment firms, we're investing in the future of learning—and the people who are building it. Learn more at www.litmos.com .

We are looking for a Senior Program Delivery Manager to serve as the operational backbone of our Punelocation. You will coordinate delivery across engineering teams, partner with local HR onpeopleoperations, and ensure the Pune office runs effectively as the primary home for our development workforce. This is a cross-cutting role:you'llbe the connective tissue between team-level execution and organizational delivery goals, working daily with Technical Owners, Product Owners, and senior developers across India, the US, the UK, and Australia.

What You'll Do

• Own the delivery cadence acrossengineering teams, tracking sprint commitments, velocity, cycle time, and commitment reliability.
• Facilitate cross-team dependency management and ensure shared resources areallocatedeffectively.
• Run program-level ceremonies including cross-team standups, delivery reviews, and quarterly planning coordination.
• Build andmaintaindeliverydashboards and reporting for engineering leadership.
• Serve as the senior on-the-ground leader in Pune, working alongside the Office Manager and local HRrepresentative ononboarding, retention, engagement, and hiringlogistics.
• Act as an escalation point for Pune-based staff on operational or interpersonal matters.
• Support SDLC evolution (Scrum,ShapeUp) and champion AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Copilot) across teams.
• Own the onboarding playbook for new Pune-based engineers.
• Maintain structured communication rhythms across US, UK, and AUtimezones.

What We're Looking For

Required

• 8+ years in program management, delivery management, or engineering operations, ideally in a software product company.
• Experience coordinating delivery across 5+ concurrent engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery frameworks with practical experience improving delivery performance.
• Excellent English communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to work effectively across multipletimezones.
• Experience in distributed, multi-timezoneengineering organizations.
• Experience partnering with HR onpeopleoperations or onboarding.
• Based in Pune (or willing torelocate).

Preferred

• Experience in a product company that transitioned from contractors to FTEs.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar tools.
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows.
• Prior experience standing up or scaling an offshore engineering hub.

As a learning company we believe in the potential of everyone; if you don't have experience in all the details mentioned in this job post, then we still encourage you to apply and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

We are an equal opportunity workplace employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.

Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.