Agile Delivery Lead - APAC

Job Title:

Agile Delivery Lead - APAC

Reports to:

Global Delivery Lead

Line Management Responsibility:
No

Squad Leadership Responsibility:
Yes

Company Strategic Responsibility:
No

Primary Focus:
Project Delivery and Team Effectiveness

Salary: $55,000 - $75,000 per annum, dependent on Location and Experience.

Human Made is looking for an Agile Delivery Lead to join its global team.

This is a remote position and is open to applications based in the APAC region.

As an Agile Delivery Lead, you'll balance project delivery with strategic team leadership, guiding distributed teams to deliver exceptional Word Press-based projects for enterprise clients. This is a an Individual Contributor role.

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.

Overall, you understand what value means to the companies we work with and how it aligns with our own priorities, and you are consistent and passionate in pursuing it.

Requirements

Certified Scrum Master (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
Knowledge of web technologies (e.g., Word Press, PHP, HTML/HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, version control systems) and hosting/deployment best practices

Role & Responsibilities

These are the main areas of focus for an Agile Delivery Lead.

Applying Scrum To Produce High Quality Work

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

Accountability To The Business

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

Building And Safeguarding Relationships

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

Striving For Great Work

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
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