Technical Programme Manager (9 month FTC)

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Why Join Us?

At Deliveroo, you'll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a dynamic work environment where your contributions will have a direct impact on our global operations.

Role Overview

Coordinate with internal stakeholders, including product managers, software engineers & science as needed for the programs at hand

Be accountable for delivery of initiatives at hand & work with all dependant teams to ensure timely delivery of the programs

Be the person unblocking the technical teams to ensure that the programs push forward in the right manner

Regularly work with the PMs & EMs in the teams associated with to ensure:

• Roadmaps are up to date for reporting and reflects the current state of the initiatives
• Dependencies are managed for programs that are cross-functional
• adoption towards team maturity within an Agile framework that optimises the team's velocity and self organisation

Own the regular reporting against initiatives including but not limited to risk & dependency management,

Contribute to the trade-off conversations of the roadmap and the associated triage meetings

Work with the central platform team to help teams strive towards operational excellence

Own and deliver cross-functional programs as needed covering the:

• Program management aspects
• Reporting & Stakeholder Management
• Architecture alignment

Work with the wider TPM community to enable cross-tech planning processes, prioritisation and dependency management

What You'll Bring

• Interpersonal skills to build relationships, and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders (technical and non-technical) and across a set of diverse geographically distributed teams
• Ability to quickly get up to speed on technical topics and understand the current tech landscape
• Ability to draw an architectural view of the dependencies between technical systems involved in the program & involve the relevant stakeholders to finalise solutions
• Work effectively in a constantly evolving and ambiguous environment
• Ability to tailor communication and reporting in accordance with the needs and expectations of the audience
• Ability to break down complex and ambiguous problems and translate them into clear technical requirements while also being able to articulate the value for non-technical audiences.
• Knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle, release management
• Experience operating autonomously and leading large-scale efforts across multiple teams and functions with stakeholders in different disciplines

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

• An understanding of the tech landscape across applications, infrastructure, security & data, and Gen AI applications would be an added advantage
• Experience working as a project manager, programme manager, product owner or scrum master will be highly relevant

Life at Deliveroo

We are a growing team, with very large impact, seeking to answer some of the most interesting questions out there. We move fast, we're always looking for new ideas and we're very transparent about the decisions we make and why we make them.

There are so many questions we need to answer and plenty more we haven't even encountered. How do data and technology help restaurants to grow as consumer habits change? How can we predict what someone wants to order for dinner long before the idea has even crossed their mind? At Deliveroo these are just some of the tough problems we are solving - and there is no challenge that cannot be yours. No solution is owned by a particular team, which means the scope for growth and personal impact is enormous.

Workplace & Diversity

At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. We offer multiple benefits in areas including health, family, finance, community, convenience, growth and relocation.

We believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are - your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is experience with (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest growing startups in an exciting space.