Product Delivery Manager - GammaLabs

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Main Purpose Of Role

Working as a key part of the Gamma Owned Products engineering team, the Product Delivery Manager is wholly responsible for the technical delivery of one of our Gamma owned or Gamma integrated products. The Product Delivery Manager will be responsible for the engineering squads dedicated to building their product and will have between 2-8 squad leaders as direct reports. The role requires close collaboration with the Product Owner Manager (POM) dedicated to their product from within the Product Design and Delivery team. The Product Delivery Manager will work closely with the Product Design and Delivery team working during the discovery phases of all future product work and will be a key player in building the product roadmap. The Product Delivery Manager will be expected to build a sense of ownership for their product within a high-performing team that is motivated to deliver a high-quality product against the roadmap timelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Line management responsibility for the circa 15-30 development engineers across multiple engineering squads.
• Setting strategic direction for the engineering teams on process, tooling and training.
• Accountable for building and delivering the product in line with the 12-month product roadmap.
• Ensure the Product Backlog is maintained and reflects the long-term vision.
• Own escalations and issues, working with teams up to CT level ensure these are communicated effectively and addressed in a timely manner.
• Plan a work schedule to deliver against the product release schedules and manage and monitor the delivery activities throughout, managing changes in direction as necessary.
• Work with the POM with end-to-end user story mapping during the requirements phase to ensure that user journeys can be implemented as required, involving technical resource from within the team as needed.
• In collaboration with the engineering teams, map business requirements into epics and stories with clear story definition and acceptance criteria, ensuring close involvement with the POM to make sure that scope is clearly understood and correctly documented, ensuring all epics and stories are ready in line with the development schedule.
• Work with Solutions Designers, Chief Architect and Engineer to ensure scoping, planning and development meet our strategic aspirations.
• Ensure the teams maintain and manage the Jira boards to the team standards to support multiple streams of development in parallel.
• Contribute to the continual improvement of processes used across the Group Products team.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies across the development teams.
• Report regularly to the Head of Engineering on delivery progress, risks and issues and be a central point of reference for all development related to the product, communicating clearly on progress and any variations from plans.

Experience And Skills

• An experienced technical leader who has run multiple, multi-disciplinary engineering squads in an agile environment building software products, with direct reports including software engineers with different levels of experience.
• Experienced in agile software delivery with an emphasis on failing fast and changing direction quickly.
• Skilled in work breakdown, translating requirements from product teams into epics and stories using agile techniques such as user story mapping.
• Analytical thinking around product solutions.
• Experience working with product managers and UX designers in defining and refining requirements, user journeys and user interface design.
• Knowledge of and experience in developing from prioritised product backlogs and contributing to the prioritisation process.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and confidence to challenge others in an appropriate way.
• Ability and capacity to manage a demanding workload, handle conflicting priorities and a proven success rate of delivering high quality products, quickly and at scale.
• Experience in using tools such as Confluence, JIRA, Trello, Lucid and Microsoft 365 suite.
• An understanding of various agile artifacts and ceremonies, and how to effectively work with product and technical teams within these frameworks.

What do we offer you?

At Gamma, we believe in work-life balance, which is why we offer 25 days of annual leave, plus an extra day off for your birthday. Giving back is important to us, so we also provide a volunteer day to support a charity that matters to you. Family matters, too. With enhanced maternity and paternity pay, we’re here to support you as a parent and help you thrive in your career. We care about your future, so our pension plan helps you save for the years ahead with contributions of up to 5.1% from Gamma, alongside your own contributions. Your well-being is our priority. We offer group income protection and life assurance (four times your salary) to ensure peace of mind for you and your loved ones. We want you to share in our success. That’s why we offer tax-efficient share save and share incentive plans, giving you the opportunity to benefit from Gamma’s growth. We’re committed to health, both physical and mental, and provide private medical insurance through Vitality, which extends to your immediate family at an additional cost. And, because we care about the environment, we offer an Electric Vehicle scheme through Octopus and a Cycle to Work scheme, making it easier to get around sustainably.

A few things to note

Unfortunately, we can’t offer visa sponsorship or relocation support for this role. If you feel you could be a good fit for Gamma but do not think that you meet all the requirements, we still encourage you to apply as you could be the person that we are looking for! Gamma is an equal-opportunity employer. We care about inclusion and believe in having diverse teams where everyone can be their true authentic selves. We value each person and their range of backgrounds and actively encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We don’t discriminate based on any protected characteristics e.g., race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, marital status, disability, or age. We are a family-friendly employer with a culture based on trust, autonomy, and flexibility to help you create a work-life balance and enjoy working here at Gamma.

For recruitment agencies – we have a network of fantastic partners that support us in our hiring from time to time. We‘re not looking to increase that network currently, so please don’t send speculative CVs.