Agile Delivery Manager

Great Minds, a rapidly growing challenger brand in the PK–12 instructional materials space, seeks a Agile Delivery Manager to join our dynamic, growing team.

Company Profile

Great Minds, a mission driven Public Benefit Corporation, brings teachers and scholars together to craft exemplary instructional materials that inspire joy in teaching and learning. Our English curriculum, Wit & Wisdom®, Eureka Math™ and PhD Science™, all support teachers as they take students beyond rote learning to provide a deeper, more complete understanding of the humanities, mathematics, and the sciences. Founded in 2007, Great Minds now employs more than 1000 people.

For additional information please visit: www.greatminds.org

Our Market Position

Great Minds’ Eureka Math is the most widely used curriculum in the history of American education. It enjoys an unrivaled 40+ net promoter score. Eureka and its sister products, Wit & Wisdom English and PhD Science, embrace much higher expectations for all students and Do all teachers. In a market dominated by scripted, procedural materials that drive expectations down, Great Minds produces curricula that celebrate knowledge, respect the craft of teaching, and acknowledge the true capabilities of students.

Role

The Agile Delivery Manager (ADM) is a servant leader, delivering software products developed across large, scaled teams that span multiple geographic locations. The position is a key partner, supporting product management and development teams. The ADM facilitates cross-team flow and builds plans, processes, and tools to manage delivery-related risks, issues, and dependencies. The role is responsible for implementing and coaching teams on Agile and Lean practices that add value. The ideal candidate will have strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills and be comfortable interacting with all levels of the organization. The candidate should be passionate about education and technology and bring a mindset of lean continuous improvement.

Responsibilities 

• Lead cross-functional teams delivering high-priority, large-scale digital product initiatives that may encompass many related sub-initiatives and dependent feature epics.
• Support product managers, as needed, to establish charters, understand delivery requirements, and ensure consistent understanding of scope, timeline, and resource requirements across teams.
• Develop and document delivery plans that track milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, and dependencies across related initiatives and epics.
• Ensure effective cross-team communication and coordination for events such as cross-team kickoffs, status meetings, and quarterly planning (product increments).
• Ensure delivery risks, issues and timelines are effectively communicated to leadership.
• Support or lead program-level Agile practices, including scrum of scrums, inspect and adapt, and program increment events.
• Participate with management and cross-functional teams to develop and improve policies and processes related to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Define delivery-related processes and tools needed to support teams and streamline delivery.
• Continuously evolve agile processes and metrics to improve flow, quality, value, and team success.
• Remove obstacles and blockers to progress.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Adaptable to the needs of a rapidly growing organization with strong communication skills, work ethic, and a customer service mentality.
• 7+ years of experience managing large-scale software projects.
• Experience developing delivery metrics and KPIs and reporting results to leadership teams.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills with the ability to lead a program of related projects and initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to set and manage priorities with multiple internal & external customers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education industry experience
• SAFe certification with experience working in a scaled agile environment
• Experience leading delivery efforts with multiple external vendors
• Experience with diverse offshore teams and different time zones

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.

Any communication to applicants relating to the Great Minds hiring process will only come from email addresses with the domains greatminds.org or