HMH, a K-12 adaptive learning company, is hiring a Delivery Lead. You will drive end-to-end project execution across multiple Agile teams, enabling the delivery of high-impact, complex solutions. As a seasoned leader bridging strategy and execution, you will ensure alignment, remove obstacles, and maintain a clear path to value delivery.
What You'll Do
- 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 and backlog grooming to sprint execution, release planning, and retrospectives.
- Foster a high-performance environment through mentoring, coaching, and supporting team growth and innovation.
- Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies and risks early to keep 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.
- Bring structure and direction to highly complex and ambiguous problem spaces.
- Cultivate a delivery culture of accountability, ownership, and measurable outcomes.
- Contribute to broader organizational improvements by identifying process and structure enhancements.
What We're Looking For
- 5-8 years of experience leading software development and product delivery teams.
- Proven success managing end-to-end delivery of complex technical projects, with full ownership over planning, tracking, and stakeholder engagement.
- Experience working with multiple cross-functional Agile teams in a scaled environment.
- Strong command of Agile methodologies and tools like Jira and Confluence.
- Experience navigating business priorities and influencing stakeholders to achieve project goals.
- Excellent communication (written, verbal, presentation) and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to build trust, support team dynamics, and encourage high performance.
- High attention to detail and a bias for action.
- Comfort making tough decisions and asking for support when needed.
- Bachelor’s degree in education, business, or a technical discipline.
- Agile Scrum Master Certification.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of the K–12 education technology sector and the user needs of educators, students, and administrators.
- Experience delivering AI/ML projects or working closely with data science/AI teams.
Technical Stack
- Jira
- Confluence
Team & Environment
You will work across cross-functional Agile teams. We are building a team of IT professionals with an insatiable appetite to learn, a relentless focus on customer service, technological curiosity toward future possibilities, and creativity in solving business challenges with leading technologies. We find ways to work together, create a sense of community where it’s safe to take risks and learn together, develop our careers, and all have an opportunity to work on new technologies.
