Delivery Lead

About the role

As a Delivery Lead, you will drive end-to-end project execution across multiple Agile teams, enabling the delivery of high-impact, complex solutions. You will be responsible for ensuring alignment, removing obstacles, and maintaining a clear path to value delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead two or more Agile teams in delivering complex, end-to-end technology solutions
• Collaborate across product, engineering, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment with goals and priorities
• Provide delivery leadership across the entire project lifecycle—from initial planning, backlog grooming, and sprint execution, to release planning and post-delivery retrospectives
• Foster a high-performance environment through mentoring, coaching, and supporting team growth and innovation
• Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies and risks early, keeping delivery on track
• Use data and delivery metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown, throughput) to drive transparency and predictability
• Effectively communicate project status, blockers, and progress to stakeholders at all levels
• Champion a “Quality First” approach and promote continuous improvement within and across teams
• Handle shifting business priorities and navigate conflicting demands with calm, focused leadership
• Encourage creative problem-solving and challenge short-term thinking in favor of long-term value
• Cultivate a delivery culture of accountability, ownership, and measurable outcomes
• Contribute to broader organizational improvements by identifying process and structure enhancements across teams (Nice to have)

Requirements

• Experience leading software development and product delivery teams
• Proven success managing end-to-end delivery of complex technical projects
• Strong command of Agile methodologies and tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)
• Excellent communication (written, verbal, and presentation) and interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of the education technology (K–12) sector and user needs of educators, students, and administrators (preferred)
• High attention to detail and a bias for action
• Comfortable making tough decisions and asking for support when needed

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in education, business, or technical discipline
• Agile Scrum Master Certification

Benefits

The Information Technology organization is transforming to realize our mission: Become a leader in HMH’s digital transformation, and as a strategic partner, innovate and deliver highest value, competitive advantage solutions across all corporate and business functions.

Pay

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Schedule

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