Assoc Delivery Lead @ HMH

Responsibilities
Provide leadership and coaching to the team in agile practices by facilitating all scrum ceremonies for one product development scrum teams.

With support, manage all deliverables and dependencies for your agile product development scrum team.
Keep 90-day delivery plans up to date, transparent and stakeholders informed.
Mentor new and existing team members on our agile processes, continuous improvement and how the team works best.

Ensure an effective kick-off for the team of new features, work, or new team setup.
Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure the team understands the product and business strategy to inform the teams mission and contributes to good decision making.
Collaborate with PO on backlog health to ensure the team are working from a prioritized backlog.

Breakdown work from epics to stories (story mapping), write stories with agile team.
Collaborate with all TSG groups where dependencies arise such as UX Design, UXR, Dev Ops and others.
Manage dependencies for your team and ensure they are known and addressed.

Represent the team at Scrum of Scrums.
Own, track and manage agile metrics for your team, use them for Sprint Planning, to inform process improvements and for reporting purposes.
Own accurate and up to date project status for your team and report in an appropriate manner in line with TSG processes.

Keep your project management tool (Jira) accurate and up to date.

Experience

Proven experience leading high-performing and innovative Agile teams
3 to 6 years experience working with product development teams in software development
Hands-on experience with SQL

Demonstrated success and experience leading teams with Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence
Knowledge of education technology (K-12) industry technology trends, user experience (educators, students, and administrators), and classroom needs

Competencies
Strong verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills

Ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously and make difficult decisions with speed and accuracy.
Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion.
Organized and quality focused.

Keep teams focused on results, growth, and actionable feedback.

Competencies specific to role level (Delivery Lead)

Ability to apply problem solving skills in your area of expertise.
Proficient in multiple parts of the product.
Demonstrates effective communication within cross-functional team.

Fosters a culture that stimulates innovative and creative approaches to solving problems. Finds innovative solutions to problems encountered on assignments.
Works collaboratively across the cross-functional team and impacted teams.
Good understanding of customer uses and needs for their product.

Demonstrates a clear working knowledge of operational objectives of the department.
Consistently delivers on customer expectations by producing high quality products quickly and efficiently.
Learns nimbly and is ready and willing to work beyond comfort zone.

Education
Bachelors degree in education, business, or technical discipline preferred

Agile Scrum Master Certification preferred