Delivery Lead, Blend
Office located in San Ramon, CA
Business performance data & analytics
Posted today
Business performance data & analytics
501-1000 employees
Posted today
Office located in San Ramon, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help advance our understanding of our customers and business performance.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate combines deep engineering and application delivery expertise, a strong understanding of Generative AI, and excellent cross-functional leadership skills to ensure client objectives are met efficiently and with high technical integrity
- 10+ years driving large-scale, complex software delivery across multiple agile pods or programs
- Skilled at translating strategic vision into integrated delivery roadmaps that create business value
- Demonstrated ability to align product, engineering, data science, and business teams across cloud-based and AI-centric portfolios
- Expertise in leading through influence—comfortable navigating client-side matrixed organizations
- Strong engineering foundation with hands-on experience guiding cloud-native architecture and enterprise-scale application delivery
- Familiar with integration patterns, APIs, DevOps practices, and delivery metrics that matter
- Solid understanding of GenAI and LLM-based systems, including RAG workflows, orchestration layers, and ML infrastructure
- Ability to partner with product and science teams to translate ideas into scalable, compliant, and secure GenAI solutions
- Deep expertise in agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban) and experience standing up and scaling agile delivery across pods
- Strong coaching muscle—trusted mentor to Scrum Masters and Product Owners alike
- Confident communicator with a track record of building trusted relationships at the VP/C-level
- Skilled in distilling complexity into clear, actionable insights—via dashboards, briefings, and issue escalations
- Experience managing program budgets, vendor contracts, and spend reporting across multiple teams
- Familiarity with tools like Jira Align, Azure DevOps, or comparable portfolio management systems
- Knows how to balance speed with control—proactively identifies and mitigates delivery, security, and compliance risks
- Experience embedding secure-by-design and responsible AI practices from day one
- Able to anticipate and shape future team needs based on evolving delivery goals and technical complexity
- Skilled in onboarding, ramping, and sustaining high-performing cross-functional pods
What the job involves
- Seasoned delivery leader (10+ years) to oversee multiple cross-functional, cloud-based, and GenAI-influenced pods supporting AI platforms, research, and operational support
- This role operates at the program level, translating strategic goals into coordinated delivery across agile pods
- Drive complex, high-impact initiatives across multiple agile pods (AI, Research, Operational)
- Lead program-level planning and tracking, including dependencies, deliverables, and milestone reviews
- Orchestrate Scrum of Scrums to manage inter-pod coordination and technical alignment
- Provide transparent updates via dashboards, strategic briefings, and executive summaries
- Proactively escalate risks, blockers, and resourcing gaps to client stakeholders and internal leadership
- Ensure technical execution aligns with enterprise standards and best practices for scalable software
- Understand core GenAI/LLM concepts and guide their application across AI pods (e.g., retrieval systems, orchestration layers, and ML pipelines)
- Partner with client, product and science leads to ensure technical feasibility of AI-driven features
- Support integration of GenAI models with enterprise-scale applications and APIs
- Standardize agile practices across pods, while supporting flexibility for domain-specific needs
- Coach Scrum Masters and support Product Owners in backlog prioritization and sprint delivery
- Partner with client and engineering leads to forecast headcount and skills across pods and keep stakeholders informed of needs
- Assist with program spend reporting across pods
- Maintain program-level risk registers and drive mitigation strategies
- Collaborate with security and compliance leads to embed required controls from day one
- Oversee the use of tools like Jira Align, Azure DevOps, or similar to synthesize pod-level delivery
- Provide program-level reporting
Our take
As large enterprises digitise at increasingly complex rates, data solutions and advanced analytics are becoming increasingly vital services. Bled360 is a data science solution provider helping these companies leverage the data they harness in transformative ways.
Consisting of data scientists and engineers, the company aids large enterprises in machine learning operations, AI integration and data governance. Overall, it helps to boost the efficiency of data usage.
Blend360 has also been strategically growing through the acquisition of SMEs, in part funded by its 2022 Growth Equity investment. Companies it has acquired include FutureproofAI, enhancing its service offerings and customer base. Its acquisition of Montevideo Labs also enhances its position in LatAm regions.
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Company HQ
Town Center, Columbia, MD
Leadership
Patrick Hennessy
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously Managing Director at Whitegate Capital Partners, Advisor to the CEO at Merkle and Vice President at Cornwell Data.
Tim Berry
(Co-Founder)Previously President of Merkle Europe, Senior Director of Rapp Collins Worldwide and Senior Manager at AT&T.
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