Senior Delivery Manager (Remote from anywhere in Colorado).

About the role

The Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to help build the next generation of public services. This role is critical in governing a product toward continuous outcomes, ensuring effective delivery and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Create a productive and sustainable team tempo through sprint planning, standups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Track and communicate dependencies across teams, vendors, and agency stakeholders.
• Manage 3 to 5 active vendor contracts simultaneously, focusing on outcomes rather than paperwork compliance.
• Adapt cadence and approach across the service life cycle, from discovery and alpha to live service and continuous improvement.
• Identify and simplify processes that are no longer serving the team.
• Translate delivery status into meaningful language for OIT and agency leadership.
• Evaluate expiring contracts for renewal, restructuring, or transitioning to a different delivery approach.
• Ensure the pod maintains continuity of ownership through go-live and into ongoing improvement.

Requirements

This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows:

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in modern technology delivery models, including working in or leading cross-functional teams using iterative, user-centered methods.
• A track record of working across disciplines—design, engineering, policy, or operations—to ship things that work for real people.

Qualifications

Relevant certifications such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Pragmatic Institute Product Management, or Professional Product Manager (PPM). Experience in modern procurement practices is highly desirable, with the ability to structure vendor requirements in a way that remains outcome-oriented and agile rather than locking the state into rigid, fixed-scope contracts. Background in User-Centered Design (UCD).

Skills

Knowledge of product and service life cycle management in regards to evolving team needs and cadence shifts across discovery, alpha, beta, live, and ongoing improvement phases. Knowledge of agile delivery frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and the tooling that enables teams to work in sprint cycles. Knowledge of State budget and legislative cycles as they affect technology delivery timelines. Knowledge of modern procurement practices that de-risk delivery and enable outcome-oriented contracts. Ability to communicate effectively between technical and non-technical stakeholders without flattening complexity. Ability to guide teams toward the process that fits the work rather than enforcing a methodology for its own sake. Ability to adapt cadence and approach across the life cycle, recognizing that discovery phases look different from live service phases. Ability to balance planning and adaptability by producing enough structure to make work legible and manageable without locking into plans that can't respond to reality. Ability to surface delivery health honestly, including when things are not going well, before problems escalate. Ability to identify when a process is serving the team and when it has become overhead, taking action to simplify. Ability to resist organizational gravity toward Gantt charts and waterfall habits. Ability to structure and run sprint cadences, backlogs, reviews, and retrospectives. Ability to write and manage Statements of Objectives rather than Statements of Work, structure time-and-materials contracts with caps, and use modular procurement efficiently in a government procurement environment. Ability to triage and transition inherited fixed-scope contracts toward continuous delivery approaches. Ability to identify blockers, external dependencies, and delivery risks early enough to act on them.

Benefits

The State of Colorado strives to create a Colorado for All by building and maintaining workplaces that value and respect all Coloradans through a commitment to equal opportunity and hiring based on merit and fitness. The State is resolute in non-discriminatory practices in everything we do, including hiring, employment, and advancement opportunities. The Governor's Office of Information Technology is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship.