Sr. Delivery Manager

Datasite•Minneapolis, MN

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Datasite and its associated businesses are the global center for facilitating economic value creation for companies across the globe. From data rooms to AI deal sourcing and more. Here you’ll find the finest technological pioneers: Datasite, Blueflame AI, Grata, and Sherpany. They all, collectively, define the future for business growth. Apply for one position or as many as you like. Talent doesn’t always just go in one direction or fit in a single box. We’re happy to see whatever your superpower is and find the best place for it to flourish. Get started now, we look forward to meeting you. Delivery Managers will be responsible for planning and managing the overall delivery roadmap for multiple initiatives. This position is also responsible bringing thought-leadership, organization, and clarity to the overall IT portfolio of initiatives. Examples include ensuring cross-functional collaboration, ensuring key stakeholders are engaging as needed, unblocking projects and ensuring project deliverables are high quality, establishing the MVP mindset and approach, checking that backlogs are being prioritized using value-focused OKRs as criteria, etc. Delivery management is critical for the success of Datasite as it is the cornerstone and pillar for transformation. The overall role is to ensure features and functionality are being delivered while maximizing efficiencies by removing blockers / issues and mitigating risks.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field, or equivalent work experience
4+ years' work experience preferably as a project / program manager
Understand fundamentals of IT infrastructure and IT Service Delivery
Understand Agile and Lean practices
Highly organized and a strong communicator who can effectively multitask and prioritize as needs evolve
Able to learn quickly and work proactively
Set and continually manage project expectations with team members
Lead regular team meetings to determine progress, set momentum, remove barriers, and actively address internal and external risks and dependencies
Able to communicate effectively between a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders to interpret business needs
Able to prioritize the most important or highest value tasks.
Able to use data to inform planning and managing complex internal and external dependencies.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in an agile product development environment is preferred

Responsibilities

Builds and maintains motivated teams, making sure there is iterative plan to work towards, supporting the day-to-day agile ceremonies of teams (sprint planning, reviews, growing, retrospectives etc.), team administration, performance, and OKR management.
Leads team and serves as the liaison between Project Owners and IT Governance.
Removing Obstacles and Impediments that hinder or limit team efficiency. i.e. removing ‘blockers’ or obstacles to progress: negotiating with stakeholders, refocusing senior leadership, or addressing procurement issues for example.
Tracking key project and delivery metrics, understanding and reporting on current state and progress of work, what is done and not, etc. Clear reporting and communication is key for this role, not only to the Leadership Team but also to project teams, IT team members, and business leads.
Reinforce proven tools, techniques, practices, coaching teams through discovery and delivery stages.
Maintain, enforce, and help evolve agile delivery standards and best practices.
Mentor and train IT team members in agile delivery.
Follow-up on day-to-day tasks/activities to exceed expectations.
Focusing the team on what is most important to the delivery of projects and core IT services.
Ensures that all Datasite internal stakeholders are fully prepared to support the features/functionality that we introduce to our clients.
Org readiness helps identify well in advance risks, action items and experts needed to ensure success during launch activities.