Assoc Delivery Lead
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Date:Apr 28, 2025
Location: MH, IN
Company: HMH
HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.
HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. HMH Technology India Pvt. Ltd. is our technology and innovation arm in India focused on developing novel products and solutions using cutting-edge technology to better serve our clients globally. HMH aims to help employees grow as people, and not just as professionals. For more information, visitwww.hmhco.com
Role Summary
In this role, you are responsible for the agile delivery for your team. You facilitate and run scrum ceremonies. With support you resolve blockers, and keep the team on track. You work closely with other to develop and manage the 90-day delivery plan collaborating closely with other teams on dependencies and ensuring alignment to the overall business goal.
You are transparent, always, using metrics and project updates to keep stakeholders and leadership informed.
Responsibilities
• Provide leadership and coaching to the team in agile practices by facilitating all scrum ceremonies for one product development scrum teams.
• With support, manage all deliverables and dependencies for your agile product development scrum team.
• Keep 90-day delivery plans up to date, transparent and stakeholders informed.
• Mentor new and existing team members on our agile processes, continuous improvement and how the team works best.
• Ensure an effective kick-off for the team of new features, work, or new team setup.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure the team understands the product and business strategy to inform the team’s mission and contributes to good decision making.
• Collaborate with PO on backlog health to ensure the team are working from a prioritized backlog.
• Breakdown work from epics to stories (story mapping), write stories with agile team.
• Collaborate with all TSG groups where dependencies arise such as UX Design, UXR, Dev Ops and others.
• Manage dependencies for your team and ensure they are known and addressed.
• Represent the team at Scrum of Scrums.
• Own, track and manage agile metrics for your team, use them for Sprint Planning, to inform process improvements and for reporting purposes.
• Own accurate and up to date project status for your team and report in an appropriate manner in line with TSG processes.
• Keep your project management tool (Jira) accurate and up to date.
Experience
• Proven experience leading high-performing and innovative Agile teams
• 3 to 6 years’ experience working with product development teams in software development
• Hands-on experience with SQL
• Demonstrated success and experience leading teams with Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Knowledge of education technology (K-12) industry technology trends, user experience (educators, students, and administrators), and classroom needs
Competencies
• Strong verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously and make difficult decisions with speed and accuracy.
• Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion.
• Organized and quality focused.
• Keep teams focused on results, growth, and actionable feedback.
Competencies specific to role level (Delivery Lead)
• Ability to apply problem solving skills in your area of expertise.
• Proficient in multiple parts of the product.
• Demonstrates effective communication within cross-functional team.
• Fosters a culture that stimulates innovative and creative approaches to solving problems. Finds innovative solutions to problems encountered on assignments.
• Works collaboratively across the cross-functional team and impacted teams.
• Good understanding of customer uses and needs for their product.
• Demonstrates a clear working knowledge of operational objectives of the department.
• Consistently delivers on customer expectations by producing high quality products quickly and efficiently.
• Learns nimbly and is ready and willing to work beyond comfort zone.
Education
• Bachelor’s degree in education, business, or technical discipline preferred
• Agile Scrum Master Certification preferred
HMH Technology Private Limited is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, colour, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. For more information, visithttps://careers.hmhco.com/. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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