Delivery Manager, Principal

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Job Description:

Delivery Managers will be responsible for planning and managing the overall delivery roadmap for multiple initiatives.  They will work with multiple teams including Senior Leaders, Team Leaders, and team members to develop and deliver an Agile Maturity roadmap, help build and reinforce the Agile mindset and embed Agile principles in the day-to-day work. Examples include: ensuring cross-functional collaboration; ensuring key stakeholders are engaging as needed, establishing the MVP mindset and approach, checking that backlogs are being prioritized using value-focused OKRs as criteria, etc. Maximize efficiency by removing blockers/issues and mitigating risks. Delivery management is critical for the success of Datasite as it is the cornerstone and pillar for transformation. The overall role is to ensure features and functionality are being delivered.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Team Operations – Builds and maintains motivated teams, making sure there is iterative plan to work towards, supporting the day-to-day agile ceremonies of teams (sprint planning, reviews, growing, retrospectives etc.), team administration, performance and OKR management. Leads team and be the liaison between Product Ownership and Project Governance.
• Removing Obstacles and Impediments that hinder or limit team efficiency. i.e removing ‘blockers’ or obstacles to progress: negotiating with stakeholders, refocusing senior leadership, or raising questions or priority to leadership. 
• Reporting – tracking key team discovery and delivery metrics, understanding, and reporting on current state and progress of work, what is done and not, etc.  Clear reporting and communication is key for this role, not only to IT Leadership but also to the various Department Stakeholders and Business Leads. 
• Agile Coaching – Maintain and evolve IT’s Agile Maturity Roadmap.  Reinforce proven tools, techniques, practices, coaching teams through discovery and delivery stages.  Push for continuous improvement. Establish and enforce agile delivery standards and best practices.  Mentor and train agile delivery team and stakeholders
• Execution Discipline – follow-up on day-to-day tasks/activities to exceed expectations – includes project tasks as well as operational maintenance tasks. Focusing the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services.
• Org Readiness – ensures that all Datasite internal stakeholders are fully prepared to support the features/functionality that we introduce.  Org readiness helps identify well in advance risks, action items and experts needed to ensure success during launch activities.

Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field, or equivalent work experience

Experience

• 7+ years' work experience preferably as a scrum master or project management
• Understand fundamentals of IT infrastructure and IT Service Delivery
• Understand Agile and Lean practices
• Proficiency with Jira
• Highly organized and a strong communicator who can effectively multitask and prioritize as needs evolve
• Able to learn quickly and work proactively
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members
• Lead regular team meetings to determine progress, set momentum, remove barriers, and actively address internal and external risks and dependencies
• Able to communicate effectively between a variety of technical and non-technical stake holders to interpret business needs 
• Able to prioritize the most important or highest value tasks.
• Able to use data to inform planning and managing complex internal and external dependencies.
• Experience working in an agile product development environment is preferred
• Minimal travel required

The base salary range represents the estimated low and high end for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, each candidate’s compensation offer may vary and will be determined based on but not limited to, your geographic region, skills, qualifications, and experience along with the requirements of the position.  Datasite reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

As a global organization, Datasite knows that diverse perspectives are essential to our success. We’re committed to maintaining a diverse workforce to serve our customers around the world. Datasite is an equal opportunity employer (EEO) and furthers the principles of EEO through Affirmative Action.