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About the role

  • Senior Delivery Manager leading complex AI delivery engagements at an applied AI engineering firm. Managing distributed teams, client relationships, and production-ready agentic solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-phase engagements across scope, budget, timeline, and quality
  • Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, and delivery execution across cross-functional teams
  • Manage phased releases, production readiness, and transitions into operations and maintenance
  • Identify and manage dependencies, risks, scope changes, and escalations
  • Define, track, and report delivery KPIs to guide decisions and tradeoffs
  • Support QA and UAT efforts and ensure outcomes meet acceptance criteria
  • Use AI tools such as Claude for delivery planning, reporting, and stakeholder communications
  • Implement the AI Development Life Cycle across engagements
  • Establish AI-augmented delivery standards, metrics, observability, and status-visibility tooling
  • Evaluate agentic approaches, infrastructure, context management, latency, model risk, data readiness, and evaluation strategy
  • Partner with AI product managers, AI engineers, and AI/ML engineering leads on delivery planning and production readiness
  • Define standards for AI-driven features, including evaluation thresholds, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and post-launch monitoring
  • Coach delivery managers and coordinators on AI-native and agentic delivery processes
  • Serve as a credible voice with clients and internal leadership regarding production-ready AI
  • Act as primary delivery contact for clients and lead stakeholder, roadmap, and delivery forums
  • Communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, ROI, milestones, and decisions to executive and non-technical audiences
  • Partner with Client Partners to identify expansion opportunities and shape follow-on work
  • Lead distributed onshore and offshore delivery teams
  • Coach junior delivery managers and contribute to development plans
  • Improve delivery practices, tools, and frameworks across engagements
  • Assess team strengths and gaps, flag staffing needs, and identify high-potential talent
  • Conduct executive interviews and contribute to go/no-go hiring decisions

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in software delivery, technical project management, or engineering leadership
  • Strong understanding of agile delivery practices across complex, multi-team engagements, including Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban
  • Experience managing distributed teams across onshore and offshore locations
  • Proven ability to deliver complex, multi-platform digital systems in agile environments
  • Strong client-facing communication and relationship management skills
  • Experience with delivery tooling such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and AI-enabled platforms
  • Demonstrable usage of AI tools to enhance delivery planning, reporting, and documentation, such as Claude
  • Track record leading at least one engagement where AI/ML or agentic capability was core to the solution, including model risk, evaluation, and client expectations
  • Ability to set delivery standards for AI-native work, including evaluation criteria, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and monitoring, and coach other delivery managers
  • Track record leading a team through an agentic development/delivery process, including observability, success metrics, and status visibility
  • Comfortable setting standards for infrastructure, context-management, and latency trade-offs in agentic delivery pipelines
  • PMP, Scrum Master, SAFe, or equivalent certification preferred
  • Vertical depth in one or more of Consumer Products and Retail, Education, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, or Manufacturing
  • Experience delivering agentic, AI co-worker, or applied-AI initiatives in enterprise
  • Prior career experience in client-facing roles such as engagement management, consulting, or account leadership
  • Ability to lead distributed teams, coach delivery managers, manage ambiguity, and communicate with executive and non-technical audiences

Benefits

  • Paid time off
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$160,000 - $220,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AzureCloudPMP

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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