Delivery Manager
GO Project · Kansas City, MO · 2 wk 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