Engineering Delivery Manager

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🌏 Anywhere in the World

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🖥 Software Engineer

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Progress Partners

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51 - 200 employees

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Productivity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

SaaS • Productivity • Artificial Intelligence

Progress Partners is a technology company that designs, builds, launches, and scales next-generation SaaS and mobile platforms. They specialize in creating self-serve, globally scalable SaaS products across areas like AI tools, productivity and workflow tools, collaboration platforms, and marketing solutions. Progress Partners operates as a fully remote, multi-skilled product team focused on results, long-term scalability, data-driven decisions, and user adoption; their platforms serve millions of users every month across 160 countries.

📋 Description

• Build visibility into external teams’ work, ownership, and delivery risks • Ensure delivery plans are realistic, transparent, aligned with business priorities, and tracked • Identify teams falling behind and diagnose root causes • Challenge weak plans, unrealistic estimates, unclear ownership, and superficial status reporting • Validate that reported progress reflects actual engineering output • Improve planning and forecasting discipline using evidence-based delivery • Work with QA and engineering leads to track escaped bugs, rework, release readiness, Definition of Ready/Done, and quality gates • Track cross-team dependencies, ensure blockers are owned and resolved, and run fact-based escalations • Assess external team composition, role coverage, seniority mix, ownership areas, and capability gaps • Identify delivery and quality issues caused by team setup, ownership, skills, allocation, technical leadership, or requirements • Ensure external teams follow company delivery rules, documentation expectations, engineering standards, quality gates, and reporting practices • Build vendor/team delivery scorecards • Create escalation paths for repeated missed commitments or quality issues • Communicate delivery status, risks, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating issues into business impact

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in software delivery, technical/engineering delivery management, technical program management, or engineering leadership • Proven experience managing delivery across multiple external teams, vendors, or distributed partners • Experience overseeing delivery across engineering teams, vendors, or delivery groups of roughly 20–35 people • Exposure to different business models or product environments is a strong plus • Strong grasp of software development lifecycles, agile delivery, estimation, release planning, QA workflows, and engineering team dynamics • Ability to build delivery reporting and analysis and identify gaps hidden behind reporting • Fluency with delivery metrics including planned vs. actual, cycle time, throughput, escaped bugs, rework, blocked work, and predictability • Risk and dependency management • Excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences • Hands-on experience with Jira, GitHub, Confluence, Linear, or Azure DevOps • Experience in multi-product SaaS environments and companies dependent on external engineering partners is nice to have • Experience building vendor scorecards or delivery performance frameworks is nice to have • Experience introducing Definition of Ready/Done, release checklists, or quality gates is nice to have • Resume must be submitted in English • Located within a ±4 hour range from the Central European Time zone

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first: work from anywhere in the world, no relocation required • Flexible hours • Unlimited PTO • Learning & development budget for courses, books, conferences, and certifications • Performance-based compensation • Small, senior, collaborative team • Opportunity to build products used by millions of people across 160+ countries