Agile Delivery Lead
Jellyvision is hiring an Agile Delivery Lead
Jellyvision’s headquarters is in Chicago, and, post-COVID, many of us will be returning to the Chicago offices (by choice, not requirement -- our philosophy is “Flexible First”). But this position is also eligible for work by a remote employee out of CA, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MN, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TX, UT, WA, or WI.
Who we are
We at Jellyvision are the proud parents of ALEX, a platform that saves employees and their employers money by making tricky decisions—like choosing and using employee benefits—less confusing and more enjoyable. The success of ALEX has exceeded our wildest work-related dreams, which is why we need an experienced Agile Delivery Lead to help us continue on our journey.
How you’ll help
As an Agile Delivery Lead, you’ll be responsible for optimizing the delivery of larger initiatives across the organization. You will collaborate with stakeholders, leadership, delivery teams, and the organization to ensure initiatives meet the strategic outcomes and stay on track across multiple delivery teams and programs. You will have a holistic view of the delivery landscape which will allow you to take proactive strategic action in resolving challenges and blockers.
What you’ll do
- Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments
- Utilize appropriate metrics and information radiators to identify and forecast delivery, proactively mitigate risks, manage expectations, and highlight and improve inefficiencies in ways of working
- Proactively identify and remove impediments that interfere with the ability of multiple teams to meet product delivery goals
- Understand, visualize, manage, and determine ways to lessen dependencies
- Drive stakeholder engagement into the Agile end-to-end delivery of features and products
- Manage program level coordination, such as creating milestones and cadences of increments and releases
- Participate with leadership and delivery teams as a subject matter expert to develop and improve operating policies, procedures, and practices
- Lead and facilitate coordinated cross-team plannings and sprint reviews
- Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments
- Understand, visualize and manage upstream/downstream dependencies
- Conduct and lead impact analysis and roadmap tradeoff discussions
- Act as a coach to leadership in resolving usually difficult issues
Experience & skills you’ll need
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience leading the delivery of software initiatives of varying types and complexity
- Must have previous Scrum Master experience
- Experience working with staff augmentation, nearshore and offshore teams
- Experience with identifying delivery issues and risks, and has a sense of urgency for removing blockers and driving continuous improvement
- Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and a deep understanding of facilitation techniques
- Demonstrated advanced ability to operate using analytical, critical thinking, organizational, and project management skills
- Demonstrated proficient ability to develop and promote effective working relationships with all levels of management
- Hands on experience with tools that aid teams (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Drive, collaboration tools), including the better ways of organizing those tools that encourages collaboration and transparency
- Enough technical acumen to ask great questions and challenge teams’ assumptions
Skills:
- Balances stakeholders
- Drives results
- Global perspective
- Manages ambiguity
- Manages complexity
- Plans and aligns
- Strategic mindset
Anything else?
Our credo is a simple one: be helpful. And we think we can be most helpful if our workforce is as diverse in thought, perspective, and culture as the people who use our products. We are looking to add amazing people to our team who will bring diversity across many lines, including race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity, sex, and country of origin.
Thanks for your interest in Jellyvision!