Senior Delivery Manager (m/w/d)

SPREAD; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Security certifications

Mobility budget

Sports club partnership

30 vacation days

Workation options

Volunteering day

Annual learning budget

Job summary

SPREAD is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to own end-to-end customer implementations of an AI-driven engineering intelligence platform. You will bridge engineering, product, and customer teams, guiding projects from sales handover to go-live and post-launch hypercare.

You will lead cross-functional delivery, coordinate data integration, run workshops, manage risks, and report progress to executives, ensuring on-time, on-scope, on-budget outcomes with measurable value.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading complex enterprise software delivery projects.
• Strong ability to coordinate data integration with engineering and product teams.
• Fluent in German and English (written and spoken) at business level.
• Experience managing executive stakeholders and steering committees.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional workstreams with formal risk/change management.

Responsibilities

• Own the full delivery lifecycle of platform projects, setting ambitious goals and schedules aligned with agreed success criteria, and ensuring on-time, on-scope, on-budget delivery.
• Coordinate with internal engineering and product teams as well as customer teams to connect data sources, integrate into the platform's engineering intelligence graph, configure applications, and deploy AI agents against concrete use cases with measurable value.
• Plan and facilitate technical and exploratory workshops, and steer user acceptance testing, cutover, and adoption activities in alignment with value engineering goals.
• Manage cross-functional workstreams, including risks, assumptions, decisions, and change control, with clear executive-level reporting and stakeholder-appropriate communication.
• Provide transparent tracking of delivery status, maturity, and value realization both internally and to customers, and feed lessons learned back into reusable rollout playbooks.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Technical fluency

German language

English language

Job description

Role overview

Senior Delivery Manager responsible for end-to-end ownership of customer implementation projects for an AI-driven engineering intelligence platform that helps manufacturers manage the complexity of software-defined products. The role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer teams, driving projects from the initial sales handover through go-live and post-launch hypercare.

Responsibilities

• Own the full delivery lifecycle of platform projects, setting ambitious goals and schedules aligned with agreed success criteria, and ensuring on-time, on-scope, on-budget delivery.
• Coordinate closely with internal engineering and product teams as well as customer teams to connect data sources, integrate into the platform's engineering intelligence graph, configure applications, and deploy AI agents against concrete use cases with measurable value.
• Plan and facilitate technical and exploratory workshops, and steer user acceptance testing, cutover, and adoption activities in alignment with value engineering goals.
• Manage cross-functional workstreams, including risks, assumptions, decisions, and change control, with clear executive-level reporting and stakeholder-appropriate communication.
• Provide transparent tracking of delivery status, maturity, and value realization both internally and to customers, and feed lessons learned back into reusable rollout playbooks.

Requirements

• Several years of experience leading complex enterprise software delivery or implementation projects in B2B environments.
• Strong technical fluency, comfortable discussing data integration topics and working hands-on with engineering and product counterparts.
• Demonstrated ability to manage executive stakeholders, run steering committees, and communicate crisply with both technical teams and senior leadership.
• Solid experience coordinating cross-functional workstreams and applying formal risk, assumption, decision, and change management practices.
• Fluency in both German and English, written and spoken, at a business-professional level.

Benefits and work setup

• Hybrid working model designed to flex around personal life, with secure cloud or on-premises deployment options.
• Certifications in information security and data protection relevant to regulated industries.
• Competitive on-target compensation plus a mobility budget, sports club partnership, 30 vacation days, workation options, a volunteering day, and an annual learning budget.