Technical Delivery Manager improving predictability, quality, and visibility across Progress Partners’ external engineering teams. Supporting SaaS and mobile products used by millions worldwide.
Responsibilities
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 real 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
Communicate delivery status, risks, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating issues into business impact
Collaborate with external engineering and vendor leads, product managers, engineering and technical leads, QA, platform engineering, and business stakeholders
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
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
Professional English communication; resume must be submitted in English
Availability within a ±4 hour range from Central European Time (CET)
Benefits
Remote-first: work from anywhere in the world, no relocation required
Flexible hours: outcomes measured rather than time at a desk
Unlimited PTO
Learning & development budget for courses, books, conferences, and certifications
Home office & wellness allowance
Small, senior, collaborative team
Opportunity to build products used by millions of people across 160+ countries
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