Agile Delivery Lead, Human Made
Americas - Freelance Contract
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All-in-one brand growth services
Open for applications
All-in-one brand growth services
21-100 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To spread the word about the true value WordPress can deliver for world-leading organisations.
Role
Who you are
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM I/II) or similar qualifications desirable
- Experience in a scrum master / agile delivery role
- Thrives in dynamic, multi, project environments, with the ability to adapt quickly and context switch effectively while keeping delivery goals and team alignment in focus
- Experience applying scrum, a wider awareness of agile principles, and a data driven mindset
- Experience working in an enterprise agency environment and/or hands-on expertise with Scrum practices
- Strong skills in servant leadership, negotiation, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, and promoting transparency, including the ability to negotiate and adapt project scope in response to change
- A strategic and driven mindset
- Experience in using a wide range of project management tools such as, budget/time tracking tools and issue tracking software with the depth of knowledge to recommend the right tools for a project. (e.g., Jira, Trello, Confluence, Operating )
- Strong written and oral communication and ability to communicate technical concepts
- We work in English, so excellent written and spoken English is essential
- Knowledge of web technologies (e.g., WordPress, PHP, HTML/HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, version control systems) and hosting/deployment best practices
What the job involves
- Reports to: Global Delivery Lead
- Human Made is looking for an Agile Delivery Lead to support our Americas region on a freelance or fixed-term contract basis
- The successful candidate must be able to commit to a 6 month contract
- As an Agile Delivery Lead, you’ll balance project delivery with strategic team leadership, guiding distributed teams to deliver exceptional WordPress-based projects for enterprise clients
- You’ll have a thorough understanding of scrum/agile concepts, ensuring that delivery processes are efficient, transparent, and continuously improving — enabling your squad to deliver their best
- To do this , you’ll play a key role in client engagement, delivery planning, and cross-functional collaboration, aligning business needs with agile principles
- You’ll work closely with other discipline leads to create a culture of trust, empowerment, and continuous improvement, aligning the squad with Human Made’s values and helping them to monitor their performance
- You should be confident in collaborating with Engineering and Commercial teams to ensure the smooth running of your projects and the squad
- You’ll be able to anticipate and identify problems as they arise, addressing them yourself, or escalating them to the relevant discipline lead when necessary
- Manage each projects scope and timeline
- Create and maintain a team culture that facilitates a shared responsibility for successful delivery
- Guide and coach team on principles and practice of the agile framework being used in the project
- Work with squad to help define and refine project scope, estimates, and resource requirements for projects
- Prepare and facilitate workshops (either virtual or in-person) to establish project needs and relationships
- Facilitate meetings to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing
- Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments
- Assess the time and financial impact of scope change and communicate to stakeholders as appropriate
- Identify risks and mitigation strategies
- Identifies when to use experiments for learning and solutioning
- Be commercially aware: Understand the status of the budget of your projects and be able to report on them back to the company
- Allocation management of project needs in conjunction with your squad composition
- Facilitate wider engagement with internal and external stakeholders, and partners engaged in delivery
- Build a partnership relationship with clients, understanding their business imperatives as context for helping align the team on those goals
- Understand the workings and needs of the account you are partnered with
- Be a leading member of the squad or team
- Communicate regularly; be proactive in facing difficult conversations
- Manage your interactions with clients and internal team professionally, and personably
- Using data to allow the team and wider business to make critical decisions
- Develop creative and technical judgement and strive for high quality output
- Share progress and communicate to internal and external stakeholders
- Conduct team reviews and retrospectives to promote continuous improvement
- Endorse and present appropriate metrics to sustain continuous improvement to get the best out of each team. Report progress, team status, and issues across the board
Our take
In today's digital landscape, the key to brand scaling lies in forming strategic partnerships with technology companies and other business growth services. However, the presence of various fragmented service providers can pose challenges for businesses seeking efficient scaling solutions, highlighting the demand for a more integrated approach.
Human Made offers a suite of brand growth services, encompassing customised brand development, strategic consultancy, editorial platforms, migration and audits, and team expansion and capability enhancement. While the company faces competition from sepcialised providers in each of these areas, Human Made recognises the value of all-in-one partnership opportunities for brand growth.
Through this unified approach, Human Made aims to provide brands with more streamlined and holistic methods to enhance their business operations. The company's impressive track record with renowned clients such as Google, Red Bull, and TechCrunch underscores its ability to deliver efficient and effective brand growth solutions.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flexible, remote working
- Paid parental leave
- 35 days holiday
- Sickness and carers leave
- Annual company retreat (Previous retreats include Sri Lanka, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, Norway, & Greece)
- Time to contribute to the open source community
- Conference and training budget
- Monthly remote working allowance
- Work wherever you want
- New computer and mobile phone every two years
- Office equipment when you need it
Company HQ
Matlock, UK
Leadership
Tom Willmot
(CEO)CEO and Co-founder of Altis BXP since 2019. Previously served as the CTO of majamba.
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