Jobs · Management · Missouri

Delivery Manager

GO Project · Kansas City, MO · 3 mo ago
ManagementFull-time

Your Responsibilities

  • Own Objective and Key Results (OKR) operating discipline
  • Own the documentation and communication of quarterly OKRs across teams
  • Track quarterly OKR progress with monthly updates
  • Surface risks early. Escalate when commitments are at risk
  • Track key result progress and surface risk to OKR commitments
  • Maintain a frequent, low-ceremony reporting cadence with the VP of Product, Sr. Director of Engineering, and Product Managers
  • Capture and shepherd requirements for initiatives without an embedded Product Manager
  • Translate incoming stakeholder and engineering asks into requirements engineers can act on
  • Shepherd requirements through delivery
  • Manage cross-team dependencies so the right hand-offs happen before they become blockers
  • Surface tech-debt and package health as capacity inputs

Qualifications

  • At least 4 years of experience in a delivery, project, or program management role inside an engineering organization at a product company
  • Working understanding of how software is designed, built, tested, and shipped, including the roles of product managers, designers, engineers, QA, and infrastructure
  • Experience operating in Kanban, Scrum, or other Agile methods, with the maturity to adapt the method to the team rather than impose it
  • Ability to capture clear, actionable requirements documentation from incoming stakeholders and engineering asks
  • Strong written communication. This role produces requirements documentation, OKR updates, retro outputs, and delivery reports that others act on
  • Track record of removing impediments and resolving cross-team dependencies without escalating every time
  • Experience & Skills: 6+ years of delivery, project, or program management experience
  • Familiarity with Kanban flow metrics (WIP, cycle time, throughput, aging) and using them to coach team behavior
  • Experience working with engineering-led initiatives (infrastructure, platform, AI, compliance, data) where there is no embedded Product Manager
  • Comfort working across a maturing product organization that still has uneven role clarity and stakeholder habits
  • Familiarity with healthcare, social-impact, or mission-driven SaaS environments

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