Agile Delivery Lead @ Partnerize

Who We Are:

The partnership channel offers scale and automation on a pay-for-performance model that delivers the operating leverage necessary for brand survival. Partnerize empowers marketers with technology built to discover, engage, and convert audiences, at scale, all while maintaining brand safety and control.

Why Join Us?

Our commitment to growing partnerships doesn’t end with our clients. Our employees are carefully selected to be a part of our company because they emulate a carefully crafted and practiced set of core values that define us and our business. Joining Partnerize means joining a company that sincerely values your talent, expertise, and passion. We strive each day to hire and retain only the best. Doing so affords us the opportunity to be the best in the business, to exceed our clients’ expectations, to innovate, to teach—and most importantly—to earn and maintain our clients’ loyalty.

Opportunity

Our Agile Delivery Leads are responsible for leading one or more cross functional engineering teams on the delivery of a planned roadmap of projects and initiatives.

We are looking for people who have a deep understanding of agile principles and extensive practical experience of working in an agile environment, specifically with Scrum.

Our Agile Delivery Leads build mature, self-organizing and long lived engineering teams. They lead the teams through the practical aspects of agile software development and are able to provide real answers on the most difficult challenges faced with implementing Scrum. Our Agile Delivery Leads have a solid, bottom-up understanding and are able to lead, inspire and succeed with agile.

What You Will Do

Lead teams in their journey to becoming a mature, self-organizing and high performing agile team.
Own the team’s processes, ensuring agile approaches are pragmatically followed and that we’re continuously reviewing and improving.
Ensure projects follow the correct software development lifecycle processes and that stakeholders are given the right transparency and input.
Lead by example and support your teams; not just engineers but product managers too.
Facilitate all agile ceremonies to ensure that sprint and project goals are accomplished
Identify and remove risks and impediments.
Work with Product Managers to ensure user stories are following the right standards and that the right considerations are being made when prioritizing the backlog.
Work with other Agile Delivery Leads to discuss new tools and techniques both in the industry and emerging from the engineering teams.
Track metrics and data to forecast and report on delivery, manage expectations and improve efficiencies in the teams.
Build a safe culture in your teams, based on trust, open communication and transparency.

Qualifications

3+ years leading agile software development teams.
Passionate and enthusiastic about agile software delivery.
Able to lead, challenge, coach and mentor.
Able to get started immediately with Scrum and agile, and be driven by continuous improvement.
Able to focus on what matters and what is valuable, at any given time.
An excellent communicator, motivator, negotiator and influencer.
A self-starter who enjoys learning, reading and sharing knowledge on agile and engineering best practice.

UK Benefits & Perks

25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays
Enhanced Parental Leave: 6 months full pay for birth parent, 4 weeks non-birth parent at full pay after one year employment
5 extra ’Partnerize Parental Days’ each year
Private Medical Insurance through Bupa
Enhanced pension contributions
Cycle to Work scheme
Eye Care Vouchers
Life Assurance
Enhanced Wellness Program including access to EAP, Wellness Coaching & Wellness Fridays program
Regular company events and activities

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

We are committed to attracting, developing, and advancing our outstanding team members, regardless of race, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, gender identity, physical abilities, or any other dimension of diversity. We strive to foster an environment where people can be their authentic selves, raise concerns and innovate, all without fear; where they are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources and can contribute fully to the organization’s success. Every individual in our business is expected to live this commitment without exception.

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