Agile Delivery Manager

Software Teams | Competitive Salary | Remote (but a London office if you wish to use it)

At Pod Point, we’re changing the way people drive.  We fundamentally believe that travel shouldn’t damage the Earth so we’ve made it our mission to install a Pod Point (an Electric Vehicle charging point) everywhere you park. To make that vision a reality, we need the brightest, most tenacious, and most inspiring talent in the world - we are growing faster than the market and we need to maintain that velocity - that’s where you come in!

The Role

We pride ourselves on great product development, in fact, product is the heart of everything we do. From our consumer apps that allow people to find and charge on our public units, to our back-end tools for managing networks of charge points, we’re leading the industry in how great software defines a great EV charging experience.

We want to do even more awesome things with our products, so we’re looking for an experienced Agile Delivery Manager to jump on board and help us achieve our ambitious growth goals. You will servant-lead a cross-functional product development team, working closely with other technical teams and wider business stakeholders to ensure that key business needs are met. You’ll take responsibility for ensuring our technical teams are motivated and aligned to business strategies and goals, whilst maintaining robust and seamless deliveries in a company that is continually growing and scaling at speed.

The position will report to the Head of Software and will be based remotely....(although we have an office near Old Street Station in London that you are welcome to use).

Role activities and responsibilities

• Be an inspirational servant-leader for your product development teams.

• Establish and nurture an environment where your development teams can excel.

• Empower and encourage the team to focus on delivering value.

• Continuously improve and evolve delivery processes and team dynamics.

• Coach and promote an agile culture of recognition, communication, trust, and learning within the team.

• Coordinate the collaborative efforts of self-organising and cross-functional product development teams.

• Develop a good understanding of the ongoing and upcoming product development roadmaps and the business objectives.

• Facilitate the delivery of software projects to meet business objectives.

• Use data and agile techniques to forecast, plan and manage agile delivery, including releases, dependencies, resources, and risks.

• Effectively communicate forecasts, plans, and status with stakeholders.

• Actively participate and facilitate agile events and activities for your team and the wider organisation, such as stand-ups, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, etc.

• Actively remove impediments to the teams’ progress.

Essential skills and experience

• At least 2 years of hands-on experience as an Agile Delivery Manager or similar role (e.g. Scrum Master).

• Significant experience and understanding of agile software and product development and the enablers required to cultivate an agile organisation, preferably in a high-growth startup/scaleup environment.

• Demonstrable experience in leading the delivery of complex software development.

• Demonstrable experience in creating lasting change towards agile and lean ways of working.

• Broad understanding of product and program management techniques

• Good knowledge of agile processes and practices, including Scrum and Kanban.

• Ability to work as part of a team, quickly earning trust, collaborating, and sharing knowledge and decision making.

• High level of analytical skill, and comfortable working with numbers and data.

• Experience in data-driven forecasting and release planning and reporting.

• Strong stakeholder management skills.

• Able to design Agile processes and workflows, and continuously improve them to always aim at the highest performance for our Engineering teams.

• Able to effectively coordinate work with cross-functional teams, with experience communicating complex technical solutions to non-technical users and vice-versa, and working collaboratively to manage and remove impediments and dependencies.

• Calm under pressure, able to handle change and adapt priorities accordingly, make decisions quickly, work around obstacles, and to get things done.

“Nice to have” but not essential

• Deep understanding of different agile and lean approaches and supporting contexts, such as behaviors, governance, processes, and culture across portfolio management and product team approaches.

• Knowledge of agile engineering practices, e.g. XP, TDD, pairing and mobbing, CI/CD, etc.

• Experience in value stream mapping, user story mapping, story splitting techniques, and agile testing practices.

• Experience with JIRA, including workflows and administration.

• Experience in Actionable Agile.

• Experience in defining roadmaps and release plans for concurrent technical delivery and helping identify their priorities and dependencies, then managing the available resources and impediments to ensure the roadmap remains on track.

• Passionate and knowledgeable about the EV and/or sustainability industry.

And if you’re not sure whether you’re what we’re looking for - send us your CV anyway! We love to hear from people who are passionate about what we do, and we always take the view that a good cultural fit (and mission alignment) is much more important than ticking all the “qualifications, skills and experience” boxes.

Our culture is electric

At Pod Point, we like to think we are anything but conventional. We have worked hard to create a rapidly-growing, constantly innovating, flat-structured world, where each employee can see the vital contribution they are making to the company. We knew from the very beginning that a rigid, corporate environment was never going to work for us, and we have stayed true to our word - we’re anything but.

We work hard; we’re not clock-watchers, but equally, you may find yourself occasionally working into the evening. In return we’ll pay you well, give you complete ownership to shape the role, give you ground-breaking projects to work on and surround you with fantastic, talented people. We also provide the following benefits:

• Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme.

• Very generous maternity and paternity leave scheme.

• Pension, eyecare & life insurance schemes.

• Remote first working approach.

• Flexible working hours.

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays).

• Annual company residentials.

• Quarterly team events.

• Employee Assistance Program.

Final things to note

Pod Point is an equal opportunities employer, although you must be legally able to work in the UK, and any data you provide us will be stored and disseminated in accordance with Pod Point’s Privacy Policy.

We like to deal directly with our candidates so no agencies please!

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