Delivery Lead

Delivery Ownership:

• Lead and manage the delivery of key initiatives, including projects, programs, product backlog items, and technical improvements, ensuring timelines, quality, and outcomes align with business goals.
• Maintain a strong focus on the end-to-end delivery cycle, proactively identifying and addressing risks, dependencies, and blockers.

 Collaboration with Project Managers:

• Partner with Project Managers to coordinate delivery schedules, align resource allocation, and ensure effective communication across teams and stakeholders.
• Provide regular updates and reports to Project Managers and stakeholders, offering visibility into progress, challenges, and resolutions.

Team Support and Coordination:

• Work closely with product teams to prioritize and deliver tasks, balancing business priorities with technical feasibility and capacity.
• Act as a point of escalation for team-level issues, resolving conflicts and addressing impediments promptly to maintain momentum.

Scrum Master and Servant Leadership Tasks:

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, and Daily Stand-ups to ensure team alignment and focus.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, and accountability by supporting the team in achieving their goals.
• Mentor and coach team members to promote self-organization, cross-functionality, and continuous improvement.
• Shield the team from external distractions and ensure a clear focus on priorities.
• Support Agile best practices to improve team performance while adapting to delivery-focused organizational needs.

Continuous Improvement:

• While de-emphasizing traditional Agile coaching, identify and implement practical delivery improvements that streamline workflows and enhance team efficiency.
• Encourage a delivery-focused mindset within teams, fostering accountability and ownership for outcomes.

Stakeholder Management:

• Serve as the primary liaison between the IT delivery function, Digital team stakeholders, and other departments to ensure alignment on priorities and expectations.
• Ensure clear, consistent communication of progress, changes, and challenges to all relevant parties.

  Metrics and Reporting:

• Define and track delivery performance metrics, using data to inform decision-making and drive transparency with stakeholders.

Support Technical Improvements:

• Collaborate with teams to prioritize and execute technical enhancements, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and business value.

• Proven experience in delivery management, balancing Agile and traditional project management methodologies. (e.g scrum, kanban)
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to navigate competing priorities and ensure alignment.
• Experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies and promoting Agile best practices.
• Exceptional problem-solving, communication, and organizational abilities.
• Ability to analyze delivery metrics and use data to drive transparency and improvements.
• Proficiency in English and Spanish (B2 level or higher).

Candidate will lead 3x teams – 1 in Kanban (complicated, difficult stakeholders) and 2x Scrum (easy, collaborative).

Kanabn team – will need to work with Israeli digital team and manage that communication / culture / difficult dialogue.

Very focused on delivery – collaborate with project managers – lots of project to manage – candidate needs to be very focused, organized, aligned on deadlines – planning, prioritisation is key.

Attitude is more important than experience – iGaming not as important as leading teams and projects. 

Start – ASAP – Head of Platform is doing 2x roles right now. 

Length – 12 months then roll on – long term role.