Agile Delivery Lead — Learning Products

Socket.dev; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Mental health resources

Flexible benefits

Job summary

The Association in the United States seeks a Learning Product Manager to lead agile rollout across the Learning organization, guiding transition from waterfall to iterative product delivery and partnering with Learning Product Managers to accelerate speed to market.

You will coach teams, define governance for hybrid environments, and build dashboards to track velocity and throughput while aligning Jira workflows to the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in project management, business, accounting, finance, education, or a related field.
• Working knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience conducting retrospectives and implementing continuous improvement actions.
• 5+ years of experience managing complex projects with preference for 3+ years experience in project management related to commercial learning products

Responsibilities

• Lead adoption of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, hybrid models) within learning product development projects.
• Partner with Learning Product Managers to implement sprint planning, backlog refinement, velocity tracking, and release planning.
• Design and complete structured transition plans from waterfall-based project execution to Agile product delivery models.
• Coach teams (design, content, SMEs, production, compliance) in Agile ceremonies and artifact management.
• Establish governance for hybrid waterfall-Agile environments when regulatory or compliance constraints require structured gating.
• Measure and promote collaboration, predictability, and throughput.
• Conduct retrospectives and ensure relevant continuous improvement loops are implemented.
• Standardize intake, prioritization, and backlog governance in consideration of portfolio strategy.
• Align Jira (or successor PM system) workflows to the learning product lifecycle.
• Develop visibility dashboards (velocity, burn-down, RAG, capacity tracking).
• Identify systemic delivery bottlenecks and implement process improvements.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Project management experience

Retrospectives

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

The Association in the United States seeks a Learning Product Manager to lead agile rollout across the Learning organization, guiding transition from waterfall to iterative product delivery and partnering with Learning Product Managers to accelerate speed to market.

You will coach teams, define governance for hybrid environments, and build dashboards to track velocity and throughput while aligning Jira workflows to the product lifecycle.