Agile Delivery Manager

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Agile Delivery Manager

Job Description

Location: United Kingdom
Working Period: Full Time, Permanent
Office: London, Hybrid

About Student.com

Student.com is the world's leading marketplace for student accommodation and services, a leader in student marketplace technology and an innovator in an industry that needed an upgrade. We are passionate about helping students find their perfect home and supporting their educational journey. To date, we've helped students from more than 130 different countries.

Founded in 2011, we simplify the student study-abroad journey through our free global marketplace that puts security and ease-of-use first. For students, that means having an easy-to-use, secure platform for booking their perfect home and engaging other services, giving them total peace of mind. For our partners, that means having a new digital and global infrastructure which provides access to millions of students. Currently, our website lists more than 2 million beds in over 400 cities worldwide.

Job Purpose

We are seeking an Agile Delivery Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for helping our teams deliver small batches of value to our customers.

You will work closely with our technology and product teams to streamline how we deliver software following the key underlying principles of agile. We are not interested in certifications or Frankenstein frameworks like SAFE, we want Kaizen, customer centricity and experimentation.

Our ideal Delivery Manager

Must
• Have proven Agile experience (Kanban and LEAN strongly preferred)
• Know how to inspire and excite people about building our products
• Have great communication skills
• Have a proved track record of building, releasing and supporting software products (at least 4 years)
• Know how to write user stories and acceptance criteria working closely with their team.
• Question any work that does not contribute to a measurable outcome.
• Understand the importance of culture when delivering software

Should
• Have domain knowledge related to B2C web and mobile applications
• Use probabilistic forecasting to help with predicting when software might be delivered
• Have a good awareness of technology
• Be able to "coach" internal and external stakeholders to follow an agile development ethos

Could
• Have experience of "marketplace" businesses
• Have worked with geographically dispersed teams
• Have worked in a startup environment in a previous role
• Have delivered presentations to evangelise agile methods at conferences or user groups
• Have experience building products in a number of industries

Won't
• Think Story Points is a good way of estimating and
• Be following a waterfall style development methodology
• Be writing any code

Hiring Process
• 1st stage screen
• 2nd stage interview

Offer

Benefits

We offer a great working culture, smart and passionate people to learn from and grow alongside, competitive holiday, wellbeing and pension perks and hybrid working.