Delivery Manager
Role Overview
Own delivery of cross-functional projects from kickoff through release, coordinating onshore and offshore contributors and partnering with clients.
Maintain alignment across scope, budget, timeline, and quality, and ensure projects meet delivery commitments.
The role supports the firm's delivery of production-ready AI solutions and requires regular travel.
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Position overview
Own delivery of cross-functional projects from kickoff through release, coordinating onshore and offshore contributors and partnering with clients.
Maintain alignment across scope, budget, timeline, and quality, and ensure projects meet delivery commitments.
The role supports the firm's delivery of production-ready AI solutions and requires regular travel.
Location and travel
- The position is remote in the United States or Canada.
- Regular travel is expected.
Craft and delivery
- Lead end-to-end project delivery and facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, and execution across teams.
- Manage releases, production readiness, and transitions into operations and maintenance.
- Manage dependencies, risks, scope changes, and escalations before they become blockers.
- Define and report delivery KPIs, using data to guide decisions and trade-offs.
- Support QA and UAT, ensuring outcomes meet agreed acceptance criteria.
- Use AI tools such as Claude for delivery planning, reporting, and stakeholder communications.
Client collaboration and leadership
- Serve as the primary delivery contact for clients and build trusted relationships through transparent, consistent communication.
- Lead stakeholder working sessions and delivery forums; communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs to executive and non-technical audiences.
- Support Senior Delivery Managers and Client Partners in identifying opportunities to expand engagement value.
- Lead distributed teams, mentor coordinators and team members, and foster accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Improve delivery practices, tools, and frameworks; participate in interviews and provide input to hiring decisions.
What you will bring
- At least 3 years of experience in software delivery, technical project management, or engineering leadership.
- Strong understanding of Scrum, Kanban, or other agile delivery practices; experience managing distributed onshore and offshore teams.
- Ability to deliver multi-platform digital systems in agile environments.
- Strong client-facing communication and relationship management skills.
- Experience with delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and AI-enabled platforms is requested; demonstrable use of AI tools such as Claude is required.
- Scrum Master or equivalent certification is preferred; regulated-environment experience is a plus.
- Industry experience, enterprise applied-AI delivery, or prior client-facing consulting and account experience are helpful extras.
Compensation and benefits
- The stated salary range is $130,000 to $165,000 USD or $109,000 to $137,000 CAD; no pay cadence is specified.
- Eligible employees may receive paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and 401(k) benefits.
Hiring process
- An offer may be conditional on a background check in accordance with local legislation.
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