Senior Director, Agile Delivery

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and oversee a comprehensive agile operating model across Engineering, Product, Data, and Enterprise IT teams.

• Establish uniform sprint rhythms, standards for definition-of-done, practices for backlog management, and cadences for release planning.

• Strategically shape the organization’s Agile approach and scale methodologies throughout various departments.

• Tailor Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe components to fit Vibrant’s hybrid program/product context and timelines for grant-funded deliverables.

• Collaborate with pod leads and VPs to monitor delivery velocity, identify blockers, and facilitate the resolution of impediments.

• Manage cross-pod dependencies and integrated release planning efforts.

• Regularly maintain a rolling TECH delivery roadmap.

• Create and uphold delivery dashboards utilizing Jira, Confluence, or similar tools.

• Oversee budgets for multiple agile teams and track actual spending against projections.

• Mentor and coach scrum masters, product owners, and technical leads.

• Develop and conduct agile training programs and foster communities of practice.

• Act as the primary contact for delivery governance inquiries from the CTO office, program leaders, and external partners.

• Convert delivery metrics into executive-level narratives and communicate delivery status, risks, and trends.

• Promote psychological safety, retrospection, and continuous improvement across Tech teams.

• Lead intricate cross-domain delivery initiatives and establish replicable delivery patterns.

• Perform other assigned duties as necessary.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.

• 8+ years of progressive experience in agile delivery, program management, or similar roles.

• 5+ years in a leadership or coaching role.

• Extensive hands-on expertise with Scrum and Kanban methodologies.

• Proven success in adapting agile frameworks to distributed, mission-driven, or grant-funded environments.

• Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to present delivery risks, velocity, and status to C-suite and board members.

• Proficiency in Jira, Confluence, Asana, or comparable delivery tools.

• Experience in creating delivery dashboards and KPI frameworks for cross-functional organizations.

• Successful track record of leading delivery transformations across multi-team or multi-program environments.

• Capability to work independently while leading delivery teams with a strong accountability for output quality.

• Excellent facilitation and conflict resolution skills.

• Certification as a Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), or equivalent practitioner certification is preferred.

• Experience within nonprofit, public sector, health tech, or crisis services contexts is highly desirable.

• Familiarity with federal grant reporting environments is preferred.

• Ability to remain stationary for 50% of the time.

• Capacity to frequently operate a computer and other office productivity machinery.

• Ability to regularly communicate via video calls with both internal and external stakeholders.

• Equivalent combinations of knowledge, skills, education, and experience may fulfill the minimum qualifications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Supplemental income insurance.

• Employer-paid disability insurance.

• Employer-paid life insurance.

• Pre-tax FSA for medical and dependent care expenses.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• Approximately 10% travel required.