Senior AI Delivery Lead

Robots-&-Pencils-; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Robots & Pencils in Seattle seeks a Senior Delivery Manager to own end-to-end delivery of complex engagements across onshore-and-offshore teams, ensuring scope, budget, timeline, and quality are met.

You will lead sprint planning, manage risks, and set delivery KPIs while embedding an AI-forward approach and collaborating with AI product managers and engineers to align client outcomes with business value.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software delivery or engineering leadership.
• Strong client-facing communication and relationship skills.
• Experience leading distributed onshore/offshore teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-phase engagements across scope, budget, timeline, and quality.
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, and delivery execution for cross-functional teams.
• Manage phased releases and transitions into operations and maintenance models.
• Identify risks and dependencies and escalate before they block delivery.
• Define and track delivery KPIs and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Coach teams on AI-forward delivery practices and observability.

Skills

Software delivery

Agile leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Client relationship

Observability

AI tooling (Claude)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Job description

Robots & Pencils in Seattle seeks a Senior Delivery Manager to own end-to-end delivery of complex engagements across onshore-and-offshore teams, ensuring scope, budget, timeline, and quality are met.

You will lead sprint planning, manage risks, and set delivery KPIs while embedding an AI-forward approach and collaborating with AI product managers and engineers to align client outcomes with business value.