Agile Delivery Lead - APAC
Human Made
IndiaremotePosted 23 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Salary: $55,000 - $75,000 per annum
- Role type: Remote (APAC region)
- 35 day holiday policy
- 100% remote, async-first culture
Role overview
Human Made is looking for an Agile Delivery Lead to join its global team, specifically focusing on the APAC region. In this remote, individual contributor role, you will balance project delivery with strategic team leadership, guiding distributed teams to deliver high-quality WordPress-based projects for enterprise clients while ensuring delivery processes are efficient, transparent, and continuously improving.
Responsibilities
- Manage each project's scope and timeline.
- Create and maintain a team culture that facilitates a shared responsibility for successful delivery.
- Guide and coach the team on principles and practice of the agile framework being used in the project.
- Work with the squad to help define and refine project scope, estimates, and resource requirements.
- Prepare and facilitate workshops (either virtual or in-person) to establish project needs and relationships.
- Facilitate meetings to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing.
- Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments.
- Assess the time and financial impact of scope change and communicate to stakeholders as appropriate.
- Identify risks and mitigation strategies.
- Identify when to use experiments for learning and solutioning.
- Maintain commercial awareness: understand the status of project budgets and report on them back to the company.
- Manage allocation of project needs in conjunction with squad composition.
- Facilitate wider engagement with internal and external stakeholders, and partners engaged in delivery.
- Build a partnership relationship with clients, understanding their business imperatives as context for helping align the team on those goals.
- Understand the workings and needs of the account you are partnered with.
- Be a leading member of the squad or team.
- Communicate regularly and be proactive in facing difficult conversations.
- Manage interactions with clients and the internal team professionally and personably.
- Use data to allow the team and wider business to make critical decisions.
- Develop creative and technical judgment and strive for high-quality output.
- Share progress and communicate to internal and external stakeholders.
- Conduct team reviews and retrospectives to promote continuous improvement.
- Endorse and present appropriate metrics to sustain continuous improvement, reporting progress, team status, and issues across the board.
Requirements
- Experience in a scrum master / agile delivery role.
- Ability to thrive in dynamic, multi-project environments with the ability to adapt quickly and context switch effectively while keeping delivery goals and team alignment in focus.
- Experience applying scrum, a wider awareness of agile principles, and a data-driven mindset.
- Experience working in an enterprise agency environment and/or hands-on expertise with Scrum practices.
- Strong skills in servant leadership, negotiation, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, and promoting transparency, including the ability to negotiate and adapt project scope in response to change.
- A strategic and driven mindset.
- Experience in using a wide range of project management tools such as budget/time tracking tools and issue tracking software (e.g., Jira, Trello, Confluence, Operating) with the depth of knowledge to recommend the right tools for a project.
- Strong written and oral communication and ability to communicate technical concepts.
- Knowledge of web technologies (e.g., WordPress, PHP, HTML/HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, version control systems) and hosting/deployment best practices.
Nice to have
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM I/II) or similar qualifications.
Benefits
- 100% remote, async-first culture.
- Enhanced paid parental leave policy.
- 35 day holiday policy.
- Company equipment.
- Special Exceptions leave for milestone life events (after one year of service).
- Sickness and carers leave.
- Regular company retreat.
- Conference and training budget.
- Remote working allowance.
- Enhanced pension.
Additional details
- Job Title: Agile Delivery Lead - APAC
- Reports to: Global Delivery Lead
- Line Management Responsibility: No
- Squad Leadership Responsibility: Yes
- Company Strategic Responsibility: No
- Primary Focus: Project Delivery and Team Effectiveness
- Salary: $55,000 - $75,000 per annum, dependent on Location and Experience.
- Position is remote and open to applications based in the APAC region.
- This is an Individual Contributor role.
- Originally posted on Himalayas