Director of Product Delivery and Programs

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⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $91.8k - $118.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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✅ Product Manager

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Young Life

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1941

💼 Consulting

✈️ Travel

🤲 Charity

Consulting • Travel • Charity

Young Life is a global Christian mission organization dedicated to introducing adolescents to Jesus Christ and helping them to grow in their faith. The organization focuses on building personal relationships with young people and providing fun, adventurous, life-changing experiences. Its mission involves working in communities alongside like-minded adults, including volunteer leaders and staff, to engage with and support youth. Young Life also emphasizes the importance of authentic friendships and creating spaces where young people feel loved and accepted, regardless of their background.

📋 Description

• Lead program managers, Scrum leaders, and technical program managers through ownership, workforce planning, recruiting, performance management, and succession planning • Develop leaders who can independently run delivery work, make decisions, and develop others • Establish hiring, onboarding, development, and team practices for the delivery organization • Plan, forecast, and track product delivery across teams, including dependencies, risks, and release readiness • Establish planning, dependency management, escalation, and release-readiness practices • Provide accountable leaders with options, recommendations, and consequences of delay for decisions • Ensure launches have support, training, communication, and operating owners before completion • Maintain the Scrum operating model and ensure Scrum leaders run effective teams • Lead transition toward stream-aligned teams using Team Topology with GMET Leadership • Define team boundaries, interaction modes, and technical program manager roles • Guide team splits and organizational changes while maintaining clear ownership, backlogs, and handoffs • Manage vendor delivery and performance, including deliverables, quality, schedule, cost, and knowledge transfer • Partner with GMET Leadership on vendor negotiations, scope changes, renewals, and exits • Share responsibility for the product delivery budget and make capacity and investment tradeoffs visible • Direct delivery capacity toward highest-value work and escalate material decisions • Define delivery measures and baselines, including forecast reliability, cycle time, dependency health, team health, and vendor performance • Report delivery status and risk to GMET Leadership and product and engineering leaders • Use approved AI and automation tools to improve planning, reporting, and knowledge reuse with human accountability and data protection • Manage professional teams, set priorities and performance expectations, delegate authority, participate in hiring, provide training and mentorship, guide career development, and conduct performance management

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college, preferably in a job related major field of study • Minimum ten (10) years of relevant professional experience, including leading and managing complex initiatives or programs with outcome-focused deliverables • Minimum three (3) years of managerial experience • Or equivalent combination of education and experience • Typically eight or more years of progressively responsible experience in program management, product delivery, agile delivery, or related work, or equivalent evidence of sustained scope and impact • Five or more years leading program managers, Scrum leaders, technical program managers, or multidisciplinary delivery teams • Demonstrated success leading delivery across a portfolio of product teams, with sustained outcomes achieved through others • Experience developing managers, team leads, or senior practitioners through delegation, feedback, performance management, and succession planning • Strong program and portfolio judgment across capacity, dependencies, risk, and operational readiness • Experience with Scrum and agile delivery at scale, and with moving teams toward stream-aligned or Team Topology operating models • Experience managing vendors and contractors who deliver services to product teams, including performance, budget, and knowledge transfer • Ability to connect technical dependencies to delivery consequences, and to work with technical leaders without substituting for their authority • Strong written, facilitation, and executive communication skills • Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent professional experience • Personal commitment to Young Life's Christian mission and required staff statements and policies

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