Agile Product & Delivery Lead (Contract-to-Hire)

Olberding; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Contract-to-full-time potential

Job summary

Olberding is seeking an Agile Product / Project Manager in Chicago to lead planning, delivery, and adoption of enterprise applications and workflows. You will bridge business needs with technical teams, manage backlogs, and drive measurable outcomes across multiple initiatives.

The role blends product management, project delivery, and process analysis, requiring strong facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and ability to balance long-term direction with scope and risk.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of relevant experience in product management, project management, product ownership, or Agile delivery.
• Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, digital products, or business process improvements.
• Experience managing work from discovery and requirements through delivery, adoption, and ongoing improvement.
• Strong facilitation skills, including the ability to lead workshops, engage stakeholders with different levels of technical knowledge, and drive clear decisions.
• Practical knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and the software development lifecycle, with the judgment to adapt delivery methods to the work.
• Experience creating product roadmaps, managing backlogs, and writing user stories with testable acceptance criteria.
• Ability to manage schedules, scope, dependencies, risks, and competing priorities across multiple teams.
• Experience using Jira, Azure DevOps, or comparable work management tools, along with collaborative documentation platforms.
• Sufficient technical understanding to work effectively with engineers on APIs, integrations, data flows, and application dependencies.
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to explain tradeoffs and escalations.
• Demonstrated ownership, follow-through, and ability to influence outcomes without direct reporting authority.
• Relevant education, professional training, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technology leaders to define business problems, outcomes, direction, and priorities.
• Lead discovery sessions and workshops to understand workflows and opportunities for improvement.
• Facilitate discussions among diverse stakeholders, capturing requirements and resolving priorities.
• Develop and maintain roadmaps, backlogs, release plans, and project schedules aligned to business objectives.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process docs.
• Lead Agile ceremonies: backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily coordination, reviews, retrospectives.
• Manage scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues across concurrent initiatives using Agile or hybrid delivery.
• Coordinate delivery across configuration, development, integrations, testing, deployment.
• Hold teams and partners accountable for commitments and quality.
• Challenge unnecessary customization and scope expansion; evaluate standard platform capabilities and value.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing, training, and release communications for adoption.
• Gather feedback and analyze adoption, workflow performance, and business results for improvements.
• Provide reporting on progress, forecasts, risks, and decisions needing leadership.
• Coach teams in Agile methods, shared ownership, and continual improvement.

Skills

5+ years experience in PM/PMO/Agile

Enterprise apps deliver

Discovery to delivery

Facilitation & stakeholder management

Scrum/Kanban knowledge

Roadmaps & backlogs

Schedule/scope/risk management

Jira/Azure DevOps usage

APIs/integrations knowledge

Communication/analytical skills

Ownership & influence

Education or training

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Documentation platforms

Job description

Olberding is seeking an Agile Product / Project Manager in Chicago to lead planning, delivery, and adoption of enterprise applications and workflows. You will bridge business needs with technical teams, manage backlogs, and drive measurable outcomes across multiple initiatives.

The role blends product management, project delivery, and process analysis, requiring strong facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and ability to balance long-term direction with scope and risk.