Sr Delivery Lead

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Bhara; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is seeking a Delivery Lead to drive end-to-end project execution across multiple Agile teams in our IT organization. You will bridge strategy and execution, remove obstacles, and ensure value delivery through planning, tracking, and release activities.

You will work with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and business stakeholders, guiding milestones and metrics, and fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement across projects, including

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience leading software development and product delivery teams.
• Experience delivering end-to-end, complex technology projects.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead two or more Agile teams in delivering complex, end-to-end technology solutions
• Collaborate across product, engineering, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment with goals and priorities
• Provide delivery leadership across the entire project lifecycle—from initial planning, backlog grooming, and sprint execution, to release planning and post-delivery retrospectives
• Foster a high-performance environment through mentoring, coaching, and supporting team growth and innovation
• Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies and risks early, keeping delivery on track
• Use data and delivery metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown, throughput) to drive transparency and predictability
• Effectively communicate project status, blockers, and progress to stakeholders at all levels
• Champion a “Quality First” approach and promote continuous improvement within and across teams
• Handle shifting business priorities and navigate conflicting demands with calm, focused leadership
• Encourage creative problem-solving and challenge short-term thinking in favor of long-term value
• Bring structure and direction to highly complex and ambiguous problem spaces
• Cultivate a delivery culture of accountability, ownership, and measurable outcomes
• Contribute to broader organizational improvements by identifying process and structure enhancements across teams
• (Nice to have): Experience delivering AI/ML projects or working closely with data science/AI teams

Skills

Team leadership

End-to-end delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Agile methodologies

Cross-functional collaboration

Jira/Confluence

Communication

EDU Tech domain awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in education, business, or technical discipline

Agile Scrum Master Certification

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Job Description:

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.

HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com

As a Delivery Lead, you will drive end-to-end project execution across multiple Agile teams, enabling the delivery of high‑impact, complex solutions. You will be responsible for ensuring alignment, removing obstacles, and maintaining a clear path to value delivery. You are a seasoned leader who understands both the technical and business landscapes and can bridge the gap between strategy and execution.

You’ll work across cross‑functional teams, supporting not just Agile practices but also full lifecycle project delivery—from planning and tracking to stakeholder management and release execution. Experience in handling AI or machine learning‑based projects is a plus.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead two or more Agile teams in delivering complex, end‑to‑end technology solutions
• Collaborate across product, engineering, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment with goals and priorities
• Provide delivery leadership across the entire project lifecycle—from initial planning, backlog grooming, and sprint execution, to release planning and post‑delivery retrospectives
• Foster a high‑performance environment through mentoring, coaching, and supporting team growth and innovation
• Identify and resolve cross‑team dependencies and risks early, keeping delivery on track
• Use data and delivery metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown, throughput) to drive transparency and predictability
• Effectively communicate project status, blockers, and progress to stakeholders at all levels
• Champion a “Quality First” approach and promote continuous improvement within and across teams
• Handle shifting business priorities and navigate conflicting demands with calm, focused leadership
• Encourage creative problem‑solving and challenge short‑term thinking in favor of long‑term value
• Bring structure and direction to highly complex and ambiguous problem spaces
• Cultivate a delivery culture of accountability, ownership, and measurable outcomes
• Contribute to broader organizational improvements by identifying process and structure enhancements across teams
• (Nice to have): Experience delivering AI/ML projects or working closely with data science/AI teams

Skills & Experience:

• 5-8 years of experience leading software development and product delivery teams
• Proven success managing end‑to‑end delivery of complex technical projects—not just as a Scrum Master or Agile coach, but with full ownership over planning, tracking, and stakeholder engagement
• Experience working with multiple cross‑functional Agile teams in a scaled environment
• Strong command of Agile methodologies and tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)
• Experience in navigating business priorities and influencing stakeholders to achieve project goals
• Excellent communication (written, verbal, and presentation) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to build trust, support team dynamics, and encourage high performance
• Knowledge of the education technology (K–12) sector and user needs of educators, students, and administrators (preferred)
• High attention to detail and a bias for action
• Comfortable making tough decisions and asking for background when needed

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in education, business, or technical discipline
• Agile Scrum Master Certification

The Information Technology organization is transforming to realize our mission: Become a leader in HMH’s digital transformation, and as a strategic partner, innovate and deliver highest value, competitive advantage solutions across all corporate and business functions. Our ambition is to be a digital leader through innovation and develop and deliver leading edge technology such as robotic process automation and artificial intelligence to solve some of HMH’s greatest operational business challenges. Our professionals will have business relevant skills to connect our HMH partners to technologies that propel the businesses to deliver the greatest value for HMH and our customers.

We are building a team of IT professionals with an insatiable appetite to learn, a relentless focus on customer service, a technological curiosity toward future possibilities, and a creativity in solving business challenges with leading technologies. Our team will find ways to work together, create a sense of community where it’s safe to take risks and learn together, and develop our careers and all have an opportunity to work on new technologies. We will work together, learn together and have fun together. As a team, we will lead HMH’s digital transformation.

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