Delivery Lead: AI-Driven Delivery & Agile Leadership

Cadent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Cadent is seeking a Delivery Lead to enhance delivery execution across Product and Engineering by applying modern delivery practices and AI-enabled workflows. You will partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and Delivery leadership to improve predictability, manage dependencies, and drive measurable improvements in delivery outcomes.

The role focuses on coaching teams in Agile/Lean delivery, scaling AI adoption across the software delivery lifecycle, and reducing delivery risk

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Agile Delivery, Scrum Master, Technical Program Management, Release Train Engineering, or related delivery leadership roles.
• Experience supporting multiple Agile software development teams in a complex cross-functional environment.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies and modern software development lifecycles.
• Experience introducing or enabling AI-assisted software delivery practices.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience using delivery metrics to improve execution.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to improve execution across multiple teams.
• Identify delivery risks and proactively facilitate their resolution.
• Improve delivery predictability through planning, coordination, and execution support.
• Support delivery of strategic initiatives through proactive planning, coordination, and risk management.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams, programs, and stakeholders.
• Surface delivery issues early and facilitate resolution.
• Analyze delivery metrics to identify trends, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Provide actionable insights to Product, Engineering, and Delivery leadership.
• Use delivery data to recommend process improvements and measure their impact.
• Identify opportunities to improve software delivery through AI-assisted workflows and automation.
• Evaluate, pilot, and support adoption of AI-enabled delivery tools and practices.
• Coach teams on applying AI to planning, estimation, dependency management, documentation, and delivery reporting.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Delivery leadership to scale effective AI delivery practices.
• Measure and communicate the impact of AI adoption on delivery effectiveness.
• Coach teams and leaders on effective Agile and Lean delivery practices.
• Partner with Delivery leadership to promote consistent adoption of organizational delivery standards.
• Support teams as they implement improvements to ways of working.
• Identify opportunities to simplify delivery processes and improve delivery flow across multiple teams.
• Recommend improvements that increase delivery effectiveness and reduce delivery friction.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement through experimentation, measurement, and learning.

Skills

Agile Delivery

Scrum Master

Technical Program Management

Release Train Engineering

Delivery leadership

Facilitation

Communication

Stakeholder management

Delivery metrics analysis

Tools

SAFe

Job description

Cadent is seeking a Delivery Lead to enhance delivery execution across Product and Engineering by applying modern delivery practices and AI-enabled workflows. You will partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and Delivery leadership to improve predictability, manage dependencies, and drive measurable improvements in delivery outcomes.

The role focuses on coaching teams in Agile/Lean delivery, scaling AI adoption across the software delivery lifecycle, and reducing delivery risk